INDIA      India is facing dire economic problems. Prior to arrival of Corona Virus, for eight consecutive quarters, India's GDP growth was on a downward spiral. Kovid-19 epidemic has added fuel to the fire. Financial year 2020-21 is likely to be marked by recession and significantly negative GDP growth.      The current central govt. is not taking any forceful steps. According to most economic experts the path out lies in stimulating demand even at the cost of increasing fiscal deficit. While most developed countries have provided substantial support and stimulus  to their people India has done very little.       Political opposition is splintered and it is a...

  A NOTE; My post 'NOTEWORTHY FACTS', dated August 29,  was too long, I have broken it down into 4 parts and republished them. Pardon my changes

  NOTEWORTHY FACTS; PART 4 HEALTH AND DISEASES * Malaria is the highest fatality causing infectious disease in the world: about 200,000 deaths per year. * In U.S.A. fifty percent of all deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease or cancer. * It is believed that HIV virus that causes aids, jumped from the chimpanzees of the central African jungles to the human beings, at some time around the middle of the twentieth century.  MISCELLANEOUS * Long time ago Greek people described the speech of people who came from other countries as 'burbering'.  The word 'barbarism' originated from this practice.  * U.S.A. has ten public holidays while many European countries have 30. * Seventy percent of Volcanos and 90 percent of all earthquakes of the world are located in Indonesia and its surrounding region. * When India was divided into two countries (India and Pakistan) at the time of independence in 1947, fifteen million people were involved in cross migration and it resulted in...

  NOTEWORTHY FACTS; PART 3 SLAVERY * Practice of slavery is thousands of years old. Today it is abolished in most parts of the world. *Among the slaves brought from Africa during the period of 1450 to 1870 a d, four million came to Brazil and West Indies each, two and half million to Spanish colonies in American continent, half a million in U.S.A. and Canada, and two hundred thousand in Europe. *At one time some of the Slavic people in Europe were marketed as slaves. This is the origin of the word ‘slavery’  RELIGION * Indian scriptures of 'Ramayana' and 'Mahabharata' were put in written form over the period from 400 b c to 400 a d and underwent several revisions. * Stone artifacts resembling 'Shiva' (one of the prime Gods of Hindu religion) and 'Shivalinga' (representing worship of Shiva's penis) were found among the remains of the ancient civilization that developed in the Indus valley region of North India. This civilization preceded arrival of Ar...

  NOTEWORTHY FACTS; PART 2 HISTORY * The earth is four billion years old. Modern Human species evolved only about one to two hundred thousand years ago. Human species started first in Africa and then gradually spread in the rest of the world. * Human beings started to cultivate food by farming only 10 thousand years ago. * The art of writing is only five to six thousand years old. * The chronological order of the ancient civilizations in the world is approximately as follows: Mesopotamia (today's iraq) 3500 b c, Egypt 3000 b c, India 2500 b c, Crete (a Greek island) 2000 b c, China 1500 b c. The well-known Greek and Roman civilizations came later. The Mayan civilization of Central America came even later than those. * 'zero' and the decimal system in arithmetic were invented in India.  * During 15th century a d the rulers of Aztec empire in Mexico practiced the custom of human sacrifice to propitiate God. The victims were chosen from the people of defeated tribes. * Startin...

                                        AN OPINION      What is it-God made man or man made God? It seems that at the beginning of human civilization, when confronted with big events of nature,such as, fire, earthquake, famines and epidemics, frightened human beings could not understand what caused these catastrophic events. They began  to believe in  the existence of some powerful mysterious being controlling the universe. To propitiate this   god (or Gods) and to calm down his wrath, men developed different ritual practices.      In different parts of the world, this process led to the formation of different religions. In the absence of much knowledge about the laws governing different events of nature, men resorted to speculative construction of edifice - theology - to explain genesis of universe and life upon it. Today. most followers ...

                INDIA'S  POLITICS AND ECONOMY       Prior pronouncements from the heads of the     current central government:      1) achchhe din aanewale hai. 2) two crore  jobs will be created per year. 3) Make in India. 4) Bharat vishwa guru.  5) India world's investment destination. 6) Termites from Bangladesh: Ghuspethiaoko chun chun kar bahar nikalenge. 7) Akshaychin aur POK bhi wapas lenge. 8) Five trillion dollar economy by 2022 (gdp has          actually gradually decreased from about 7% to      3.1% per quarter by the end of financial year            2019-2920).  9) Mahabharata war was won in two weeks, we will defeat Corona in three weeks. 10) Atmanirbhar Bharat: Local to Global.                                  !