Abraham Kovoor Kerala, the land of my birth, is very similar to Lanka in its topography, climate, fauna flora and even the cultural and ethnic qualities of its peoples. The phonetics of the Malayalam language is more similar to the spoken Tamil of Jaffna than that of South India; yet, the morphology of the Malayalam…
Narendra Nayak My first public encounters as a rationalist were with evangelists – the crusading ones claiming to heal the sick, the blind and the lame. It was in 1975 or so when I was a student at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. I used to come to Mangalore on Saturdays and Sundays. One of these…
Manoj Thazath One killed in stampede for fish medicine (Hyderabad, June 9, 2012) Amid utter chaos and confusion that marked the distribution of the famous ‘fish prasadam’ in the city, one person was killed in a stampede while some others suffered injuries in Kattedan, here on Friday. Thousands of people suffering from asthma jostled with…
Radha Gopalan No. There are several naturally occurring toxins in plant and animal foodstuffs. Toxins are poisonous substances of natural origin and can be harmful to human beings. But food poisoning, in our mind, is usually associated with microbes or environmental contaminants. A foodstuff is not always safe just because it is natural. Concern about…
Ram Puniyani Ramdev has been probably the most successful of God men of recent times. He claims to have a following of over a billion people. There are an infinite number of people claiming that his yoga therapy and medicines work wonders for their health. Baba in a short span of time has built…
Ramdev is the nuttiest of yoga gurus we have seen in recent years. Here is a sample of his wisdom retrieved from a recent interview he gave to Tehelka: On Cleansing Corruption If the black money from abroad comes back into the same corrupt system, how will it reach the people? That’s why the…