Category: WT Focus

The decision of the US to withdraw forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 after 20 years was a decision well supported by the Americans. A Chicago Council survey conducted in July found that seven out of ten Americans supported the move. However, in just six days after the withdrawal, the Taliban had rapidly moved inside Afghanistan capturing eight provinces as the world watched in disbelief. The Taliban took province after province and at many places the Afghan army gave up without a fight. President Ashraf Ghani fled the country…

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Outline The definition of the ‘moment of death’ had been constantly redefined, given the advent of technology and treatment, which made the prediction of time of death complicated. The need to establish the time of death is very crucial and necessary in criminology. One of the challenging tasks for forensic scientists and detectives is to establish the time of death. The time of death is determined by several methods. Given the influence of several factors on the cadaver, establishing the time of death require to take all these into consideration…

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The Covid-19 pandemic has affected world nations since the last few months, stalling all normal economic activities like never before. The fight against the pandemic has witnessed varying levels of ups and downs, bringing into focus not only the containment strategies adopted by governments but also the treatment approaches. In the desperation for an effective treatment, there is a scramble to whatever looks promising. The early prospective solution in Hydroxychloroquine saw a mad rush before the WHO suspended its clinical trials on safety grounds. The world with all its distinct…

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One of the defining characteristics of our Hindu societies and its functioning is our age-old caste systems. Untouchability, two-tumbler system, separation of social spaces exists today as ever before. Although we are aware of caste prejudices and its consequences amongst us; little are we aware of its off-shoot — non-caste discrimination. Ironically non-caste discrimination grew hand-in-hand with the idea that caste system was discriminatory and needs to be abandoned. It is very strange that despite seven decades after independence our caste systems are still intact. In this 21st century, in…

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Our independence has come at a huge cost, so many have fought hard, even laid down their lives so that we have the right to decide our leaders and future. Our vote is a testimony to their efforts. Elections and votes are a way to exercise our right to speak for ourselves on the course of the nation. It is our elections that have identified us as the largest democracy in the world. The highest recorded voter turnout in India was recorded in 2014 for the Lok Sabha elections at…

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It is no secret that we are growing more stupid by the day. Studies have shown that our IQ scores have been falling steadily in the past decades. The Daily Mail notes that the IQ, which had risen every decade since World War II has now begun to fall at a rate of about seven points per generation, which is a seriously worrying trend. This fall in IQ is believed to have begun with those born in 1975. While less sleep is pointed out as one reason for falling intelligence,…

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Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited (TASMAC) which runs the liquor retail business in Tamil Nadu, can in every way be described as a lifeline for the state. With the real estate slump, these revenues today are too important for the state than ever before. The total revenue accrued in 2017-18 is Rs 26,794.11 crore. The figure for the previous corresponding period was slightly higher at Rs 26,995.25 crore. According to Statistica, for the fiscal year 2016, Tamil Nadu liquor revenues stood at 296.72 billion Indian rupees, highest in India;…

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The ability of man and woman to attract each other physically and emotionally, yearn for each other is a phenomenon, called love or more elegantly, romance. There are millions of stories of men and women who fell in love desiring each other; clubbed as love stories. Many of them even threw aside economic and social barriers in their pursuit of each other. Sometimes people also take to romance as a warfare strategy in an attempt to raise families and increase their own ethnic population. A lot has been said and…

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Seldom has such an effort undertaken by man in recorded history as the attempts of the Tamil Nadu government to introduce new Tamil words equivalent to English. What the government or the Tamil language itself stands to gain from this venture is anyone’s guess. Unrealized and unseen behind this venture, there are several casualties. For instance the words computer and email is used in almost all Indian languages including Bangla and Telugu that have more speakers than Tamil. By renaming computer to kannani in Tamil, email to minanjal, and app…

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The Tamil Nadu government has announced the ban of disposable and non-bio degradable plastic products effective January 1, 2019. The Chief Minister Shri Palaniswamy made the announcement in the assembly on June 5, 2018 coinciding with the World International Environment Day. Banning of such plastics is a huge step for us, although it is very obvious in terms of environmental protection. Primarily it should also reduce the garbage generated by at least 10 to 15 percent. Unfortunately the Chief Minister did not highlight any action plan, the priorities, and challenges…

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