Are you a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian? Have you ever paused to think why you eat what you eat ? Our food choices are deeply shaped by culture, society, geography — and as one insightful village story reveals — even by what we grow . The Invisible Connection Between Agriculture and Eating Habits Anthropologists have long studied food habits across societies. Food isn't just sustenance — it's identity, tradition, and a reflection of how communities evolve. A friend once shared with me a fascinating observation, sparked by a concern from a villager in a remote hamlet. This villager lamented a change in his community’s food pattern. The roadside tea stalls that once served simple, vegetarian puffed rice snacks , were now replaced with flashy stalls selling chicken kebabs . You could call it the effect of globalization, or maybe a shift in local taste. But his explanation was deeper and more profound: "We eat what we sow." A Village That Once Lived on Paddy ...

What’s the Best Gift You Can Give Your Child? Is it love ? Education ? Pocket money ? A cell phone , perhaps? Each of these has its place. But if you ask me, the greatest gift we can give our children is independence — the space to explore, make decisions, take risks, and learn from real-world experiences. In short, to grow by doing , not just by listening. 🌆 The Urban Irony In today’s urban life, we often work in reverse . We overprotect our children under the guise of care and security. We want them to succeed, yet we hesitate to let them stumble , even a little. Let me give you a simple example. Imagine asking a child to go to a stationary shop — just across the street — to buy a pen. In many households, this would raise a chorus of objections: “The traffic is too dangerous.” “It’s not safe.” “What if the shopkeeper cheats them?” “The maid can go.” “Besides, my kid is super smart — he ordered a ₹5000 shoe online for his dad!” Do you see the irony? We t...

🌍 What Should We Really Do on World Environment Day? Every year, we celebrate World Environment Day by planting saplings, writing blogs, conducting environmental quizzes, or organizing painting competitions. These activities are important — but are they enough? What do we do for the environment the rest of the year? And more importantly, how do we teach our children the real value of trees and sustainable living ? Watching nature documentaries or listening to lectures may create momentary awareness, but do they leave a lasting impact? 🌱 A Real-Life Environmental Education Example from Bhutan My son recently shared a simple yet eye-opening anecdote his teacher told him — one that made me rethink how we approach environmental education. In Bhutan , young students are each given a tree sapling to plant and care for. This isn’t a one-day activity — students are responsible for the tree’s growth throughout their school years, sometimes up to 10th grade . Their academic performan...

Following are the real reasons behind The Great Britain leaving European Union. A. British are  the most intelligent community on this earth. They always want to align with future, rather than past or present. B. They were not getting any benefit from aging and struggling EU -- neither money nor power. C. Britain didnot have much muscle to decide which way to go, if they were to continue with EU. D. Now the main reason -- The British wants to be part of Indian Dominion, as a its 30th state. Intelligent Brits found following  reasons to be part of India, 1. India is the prospering economy now, as it was a couple of centuries back. 2. Anyway The Great Britain has sizeable population of people with Indian origin, including quite a few politicians. English people have good taste for curry. 3. Many Indian Industrialists have already owning/purchasing  big British industries/properties -- TATA, Mittal, etc. 4. Indians just run to England, whenever they are in need...

Population of Electric Vehicles is expected to explode. New kind of problems may start surfacing. Mainly related to charging. If many people start taking their car to office, they may like to put their car charging at home as soon as they reach home back. As per some study published in Washington post, this will result in increased peak hour demand  on the (electricity) supplier.  Armed with smart meter, electric companies would start increasing tariff during this peak period. This is worry some for consumer. Other option is to charge in office during day time. But office management needs to facilitate those many charging stations in its premises. Now some thought process has started to evolve smart charging. Car will charge checking corresponding tariff (peak or non peak) and battery charge level. Even people are thinking using fully charged, unused car connected to grid to supply back to grid. In 2015, vehicular CO2 emission is higher than that from power gen...

Father's day, Mother's day, Valentine day, Friendship day ,..To this list people of India seems to have added Yoga day .  A student wrote a report about the day as below... "International Yoga day was celebrated with full zeal and fanfare in our apartment complex. Once assembled in common area in the morning, every resident exchanged greetings -- " Happy Yoga Day ".  After inauguration formalities, including a speech by a senior citizen, colorful programs followed. The events included painting competition, song and dance performances .   With a sumptuous brunch the program was concluded.  Thus we celebrated Yoga day successfully. " PS: One person, was doing some kind of physical exercise in the program. I don't know why. Please join this blog as member and enter your comment.

"Metro project maynot be completed in this year". A big sigh, after reading this newspaper headline. "Project is getting delayed. Have to work hard to meet new deadline.." -- howmany times you have heard such comments from your friends. Donot know why, in India, none of the projects meet the schedule on time -- be it private or public ; software or infra projects. Always thought that money crunch, government clearance, lethargy of public servants, etc. contribute for project overrun. A few years back Vijay Mallya, during his Good Time, challenged Bangalore Corporation and wanted to show how to make a good road. It is about 300meter stretch of Vittal Malya Road(infront of UB City). The complete road was supposed to be dug up and relaid along with drainage and communication ducts in about 6 months time. A modern road was in making by a "professional" organisation. Ultimately it took about a year so. There was no fund crunch -- money was available. N...