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How Do We Make Collective Decisions Against Our Own Convictions ?

Yesterday I was watching a TV programme aired by the Asianet News Channel in Malayalam language titled ' Akalangalile India' (അകലങ്ങളിലെ ഇന്ത്യ) which means the India far away. Every week this...

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Applying and Getting the Indian Voter ID Card Online: The Latest ECI...

Unlike the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the Election Commission of India is a statutory constitutional authority. The UIDAI though functioning only with some disputed executive...

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Horse Racing, Cricketing, Betting and the Indian Mind !

The games of horse racing and cricketing are not of Indian origin, but are legacies that my country men and women got irresistibly entangled with because of those white gentlemen officers who were...

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This Could Be A Way How We Could Reduce Corruption In India !

About my perception about the wide spread prevalence of corruption in my country, I have wrote some of my hypotheses about it in these columns. If you have n't seen it before, you may have a look at...

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Low Cost Pre-fabricated Houses: Something For Indian Entrepreneurs to Try...

A couple of days ago, I happen to see a website of a South African company specializing in the design and construction of low cost houses that could be made in just three days ! Later I have found...

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What Prevents Most Indian Business Men to Excel Globally ?

This blog is not about those Indian businessmen who made  global foot prints by acquiring large business firms in foreign lands. It is about those hardworking Indians who through sheer enthusiasm and...

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Allopathic Medicine Labelling : Forcing the People Swallow the Wrong Pills !

Today morning I was searching for the the tablet that I am required to take regularly to keep my blood pressure within limits. I keep all those pills the doctor prescribe for me for various health...

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Let Not Your God Gifted Free-Will Reject the Love of God !

One of the the greatest gift that God has given to human beings is the gift of making a choice using his or her mind which is under the full command of the individual and fully free to make any kind of...

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No Democratic Country Can Progress So Long As Its Administrative Services Are...

Modern democratic systems have evolved in such a way that they have two main types of people occupying the administrative organizations:1. The elected Representatives of the people, called the...

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Understanding Project Life Cycle in Engineering Projects !

Buying a engineering project is different from buying an equipment or machinery. Generally, an engineering project is a fixed infrastructure having various kinds of interdisciplinary systems and works...

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Why Is It Difficult To Follow the Good Way of Living on Earth Now ?

Before trying to answer this question, I would like to refresh your thoughts on the well known definitions of good and bad. A good way of living, in my opinion, more or less proceeds  with the...

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Mr Vipin Kumar Aggarwal - the Beginning of Our Mystical Friendship and My...

It was some time in the late Nineteen Nineties that I began to face a period of utter professional slackness in my career as an engineer after about two decades of service in the public sector steel...

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The Kepler Space Mission Findings of 2013 and the Urantia Book Revelations of...

When I read the latest revealings of space exploration findings of multi-billion dollar Kepler Space Mission project of NASA, confirming the gradual increase of the number of discoveries about the...

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Why did the Plastic Carry Bags Get Banned in the Indian Cities ?

Polyethylene (PE) or simply polythene, Polypropylene (PP) , Polystyrene (PS) and Polyurethane (PU) are perhaps the most commonly used plastics that have revolutionized the way people used packaged...

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Uttarakhand Flood of 16th June 2013 : Would Good Engineering Practices Have...

When thenews of the heavy rains and the subsequent land slide calamities that rocked India, especially the north Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh a couple of days ago, with the horror...

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Would it be of any Benefit to Pray to God ? What Should Be Remembered When...

Modern man is perplexed by the thought of talking things over with God in a purely personal way. Many have abandoned regular praying; they only pray when under unusual pressure—in emergencies. Man...

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Water Supply , Sanitation and Solid Waste Management : Why does India Fair...

While I was an engineering student pursuing my chemical engineering, I was thinking that some day I would be doing my career in some chemical process industries which produced petroleum products,...

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I Feel the Urge to Become a Missionary of the Urantia Book !

Some of those near to me appear to be annoyed with my eagerness and enthusiasm to spread the knowledge of the Urantia Book, though I never ever to attempt to preach or divulge the information about it...

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Engineering Career in India : Some Aspects that are Often Overlooked !

One of the noticeable changes that occurred in India after it partially adopted the free market economic policies of the Nineteen Nineties, is the mushrooming of engineering colleges in every nook and...

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Adam and Eve : Did they Really Live on Earth ? Were they the Original Human...

The answer to the first question is, yes. Answer to the second question is, no ! It is not difficult to come to that conclusion even when you are a believer of the Bible. Am I suggesting something...

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