Global Tourism Resilience Day
“He who does not travel, does not know the value of man.” – Moorish proverb Sunset at Bikini beach Maldives … Continue reading Global Tourism Resilience Day
“He who does not travel, does not know the value of man.” – Moorish proverb Sunset at Bikini beach Maldives … Continue reading Global Tourism Resilience Day
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.” ― Hippocrates(c. 460 – c. 370 BCE) “In nothing do men more nearly approach … Continue reading TODAY’S DOCTOR
Thirty-eight years ago, in June 1984, army stormed the Golden Temple Amritsar to dislodge Bhindranwale and his armed militants who had occupied the Akal Takth. They were entrenched there for three months and were running a parallel government from there resolving disputes and conflicts. Army had to use artillery and tanks because the militants were in fortified positions and were firing rocket propelled armour piercing grenades, and machine guns. Estimated causalities including civilians mainly pilgrims range from a few hundred to 18-20,000. This was op Blue Star.
Blue Star’s aftereffects were cataclysmic. Four months after the operation. prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh guards. That triggered anti-Sikh riots that killed 3,000 Sikhs in Delhi and 5-12,000 in 40 other cities in India. Two years later, Gen A S Vaidya, the army chief at the time of Bluestar and its main organiser, was assassinated in Pune by two Sikh militants.
At the time of Blue Star, separatist movement for a sovereign Khālistān in Punjab region was at the peak. Op Blue Star was followed by op Wood Rose and op Black Thunder 1 and 2. Consequent to these, and to heavy police crackdown, and to faction infights and public disillusionment with the movement, the Insurgency and Khālistān movement petered out in mid-1990.
Punjab is like a dormant volcano. Khālistān has backing of expat Sikhs from Canada, Italy, and the UK, and from ISI of Pakistan. A few militant groups were arrested by police in Punjab in 2018.
Continue reading OPERATION BLUESTAR REVISITED
Rahul Gandhi was wrong when he said to the students at Cambridge University, England, on 23 May 2022, that ‘India … Continue reading ‘India is not a nation,’ Rahul Gandhi
“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.” – William James After the brain, the most complex and … Continue reading WORLD LIVER DAY
“Earth can satisfy man’s need but not his greed” – Mahatma Gandhi Twenty-four percent of all global deaths, about 13.7 … Continue reading World health day, environmental health
“I have done nothing wrong and not killed anyone. . . . Perhaps my death might prove my innocence.” – … Continue reading Death of a doctor, Ek Doctor Ki Maut
Nuclear war is unthinkable but possible. “The West, and especially America, is principally responsible for the Ukraine crisis.” – John … Continue reading Russia-Ukraine War, Putin’s Gambit
Introduction Many have castigated India govt for delayed response to corona threat, and for failure to visualize the migrants’ plight … Continue reading FUTURE SHOCK: CORONA AND INDIA GOVERNMENT
In India, thousands of adolescent mothers and their perinatal and neonatal babies die each year; and lakhs of women and children suffer from morbidity caused by teenage pregnancy.
Delaying the onset of child-bearing could reduce India’s projected 2050 population of 1.7 billion by 25.1 percent.
Public health system in India is already wobbling from high demand and low resources. Death of hundreds of children in government hospitals in Bihar, UP, Rajasthan in just the past two-and-half years is evidence of that. A program to prevent teen pregnancy will reduce the pressure on the limited public healthcare resources and will save tens of thousands of lives each year. Such a program is the crying need of the hour.
Continue reading TEENAGE PREGNANCY IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE