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 Right now, somewhere in the world- 200 trees are cut every second. By the time, you finish reading this post, several thousand trees have already been cut. In a Year- 800 crores trees are cut.  Cut for what?  To make paper. The paper we use in a house- from kitchen Napkins to Tissues to Toilet Roll ( To wipe our Bum). This year we (the people of Planet Earth) consumed 400 million tons of paper for household use.   Just 30 years back- world was using half of this. We are cutting trees, like there is no tomorrow, because our usage of paper has grown exponentially. Maybe the richer you get- the less conscious you become about the environment or maybe just bad habits?  As expected the west consumes a lot of paper. In USA, per person average Paper consumption is 200 Kg’s per year. India's  is  just 15 Kg’s. That's a huge Difference.   One of the major reasons could be the Bairas or the hand towel- each Indian house has, at every corner. It’s...

                                                                                                                                           Heard of the word “Middle lIfe crisis”?...does it indicate a “crisis”?...does it mean- it happens only in your ‘Middle Age”?.... The Below is entirely my Point of View....I...

 Why shouldn’t I be an Analyst too? Since everyone is a political analyst, let me also dip my feet in it. Anyways, majority of the pollsters got it horribly wrong. Shows the extent of accuracy of their methodology. The pollsters getting it wrong by such a margin should be a humbling lesson to them. But if you notice-they act as if nothing happened and instead come up with new theories for the LS result. Telling the reasons after the results is not a difficult task. Hindsight is 20/20 So, let me give my analysis. Of course there would be many errors in my analysis too. 1.Stepping back a little, look around the world. Post Covid-Checkout the results of the Election of major democracies. From US to New Zealand. Covid stuck a nasty blow at the economy of the world. Poor suffered more than the rich, simply because they had less savings. In such a scenario- massive incumbency was generated against the current premier of their nation. Majority of them lost in the election after that. Covi...

 Samskrit has to be understood always in the context . You do direct word to word translation- it gets mistranslated. 1. In every Havan- this mantra is told "Shraddham *Medham* Yashah pragnyam vidhyam buddhim shriyam balam Ayushyam teja arogyam dehi me havyavahana " Is one praying for death to havyavahana (Agni) in this mantra?. Obviously not 2. Even today- a highly intellectual person is referred to as " Medhavi" 3. So many children are named Medha.( example; Medha Patkar, don't think her parents meant death or sacrifice to yajna) 4. Medha simply meant intelligent or Sharp. 5. "Shwa" meant yesterday or tomorrow,   "Ashwa" meant today or now . Ashwa was also referred to a horse. 6. When  your intellect ( Medha) is in the present moment ( Ashwa)-  nothing can shake it.  This is the essence of that Yajna which was called Ashwamedha yajna.   7. Only in some Ashwamedha yajna , horse was sent to other kingdoms as a symbol of the kings dominance. M...

 “ Rama sent Sita to the forest. That’s a Bad thing, Rest is all ok about him. ” This Statement has been one of the most “ Conflicting  ” issues for true Rambhakths. Resonates more among the woman, since the issue is a case of abandonment. Conflict for the Rambhakths is, they revere him and worship him, but when someone asks them this question- they have no clue as to,what to say. They feel guilty about it themselves too. Because a ‘doubt ‘has arose in their mind- “How can a Man who abandons his wife, ( because of an unproven accusation), be considered as God?”. Let’s see, how to address it. Many approaches to look at this and get clarity. Logical, scriptural, Emotional etc. Logical method: SriRama was born at least 7000 years ago (by conservative estimates). People all over the world have revered him, build temples for him. Surely, they must have read about this ‘abandonment’ issue. They must have discussed among themselves. Experts gone deeper into the issue. At the end- st...

 Gold: Indians are one of the highest buyers of Gold in the world. Conservative estimates say, Indian Households( other than RBI) hold around 25,000 tonnes of Gold. Reasons could be  emotional, civilizational memories( constant attack by invaders made gold the easier asset to buy and hide) and the myth that, its a good asset to invest in. Lets look into the “investing” part of it. Any asset , be it gold or real estate or equity markets etc have to appreciate over the years to make it a “Invest-able asset”  Gold can be bought as coins or jewelry or the more recent form of buying it in Demat form. In any asset- you have something called a ‘front load” cost. That is, the amount deducted,when you buy that asset. Example: Mutual funds have a front load fees of around 2% or less.  Real estate will have ‘front load” cost like broker fees, registration tax/costs etc.  What about Gold? They have ‘making/waste’ charges and GST. These front load cost makes a big difference...

  This post was started ,because of a Recent comment from a Stalwart from the IT Industry implying Karna was his favorite character in the Mahabharatha ( MB) because of his Generous nature. It seems l made a mistake by venturing into this subject for the simple fact that, MB is by any standards the Longest Epic in the world. Nearly 1,00,000 slokas amounting to nearly 2 million words. There are at least 1000 versions about this Epic. Just the task of determining the most authentic and unabridged ve rsion in English took some time. After some basic online search, we can narrow down to two versions known for thier authenticity. One is the MB by Kisari Mohan Ganguli ( KMG ) published in 1896 which has more of the older English words and the other is Bibek Debroy's translation of the Critical Unabridged edition( meaning checked by a group of scholars) published by the Bhandarkar Institute of Oriental Research BORI ( took them nearly 50 years ). Then I made another mistake, I went and ...