Day: July 25, 2016

An eternal father’s forgotten son – Harilal Gandhi – I “Each morning I shudder to think what disgrace the newspapers would bring about you.  I keep wondering where you are and what you eat. I want to meet you but don’t know where you would be. You had changed your religion which is your private affair, but you go asking ignorant and innocent people to follow your example. What do you know about religion?. People are liable to be led away because of your father’s name.  If you continue like…

An eternal father’s forgotten son – Harilal Gandhi – II The book by C.B Dalal notes that in 1926, Gandhi had surrendered all rights to his ancestral house at Rajkot. The partition deed that was prepared showed Gandhi’s elder brother Lakshmida’ son Samaldas and another brother Karsandas’ son Jethalal, as the new owners. Around this time Harilal was in dire financial need and borrowed about ten thousand rupees from the Thakore Saheb of Rajkot. When the new owners Samaldas and Jethalal wanted to sell the house, the amount lent to…

Our world of today attaches considerable value and importance to our intellectual capabilities than our physical abilities. When man first stepped on earth, he did not require intellectual skills to survive and he was totally dependent on his physical abilities. There was no requirement for application of mind. It was in these stages of civilization that man’s actions and deeds were closest to his immediate requirement. He hunted when he was hungry and slept when he was tired. His body and physical activity was instrumental to his existence. With the…

It was on the 26th April 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe took place and the incident soon became synonymous with the name ‘Chernobyl’. The worst nuclear power plant accident in human history took place when the core of the reactor number four melt partially. It was a routine shutdown to determine turbine effectiveness when main power supply fails. The reactor’s emergency core cooling system was shut off too. The reactor was operating at half power as the electric load dispatcher didn’t permit further shutdown. The subsequent explosion and fire…

Nations worldover including some of the most advanced nations have economic difficulties. One of the greatest challenges for most nations is addressing poverty. While all permutations and combinations of economic plans and schemes have been formulated to effectively resolve them, there has been no effort to correlate poverty with wealth accumulation. No nation had ever tried to resolve poverty by curbing wealth accumulation by the wealthy. Although nations have earning ceiling on what its employees can earn for a particular job, there is no such ceiling for what an individual…

Sexual assault is one of the most under reported crimes. Both men and women can become victims of sexual assault, although all related statistics are associated with women. Sexual assault is a broad classification for all unaccepted sexual advances or exhibition of sexual desires. It differs from rape, which is the gratification of sexual desire by force. It is estimated that only one in 69 rape cases in India are even reported and only 20 % of those reported result in convictions for the rape accused. The main reason for…