Communicating science and life experience

This is the age of social media. We consume lots of information from these sources. The usefulness of these vast quantities of information might be questioned, but if you know what to consume, you will always find some good stuff. This YouTube video published by TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?=D9Ihs241zeg  was shared by one of my friends on social media. This video was published ten years back, in 2009. It is still relevant to us in many ways, and it inspired me to write stories about Nepal. I was strolling in the streets of New York. A guy in his early thirties came to me and asked something in his language. I looked at him with a surprise! He questioned me, “Don’t you understand Hindi?” I replied to him back, "I am from Nepal". Then, he started talking in English. My wife has a similar story to share. On her first day of college at the University of Otago, New Zealand, a student from India came to her and asked, “From which state of India are you?" He didn...

Human beings, by nature, are curious animals.  If you remember your childhood “You might have damaged several toys to see - “how is it made?” or “where the sound came from?” or several similar questions.  You might have further tried to remake it, but it wouldn’t be as easy as tearing it down. As a child, you never had to worry about assembling that again because you could always get a new one after some bargains with your parents. With time, we develop the sense and gradually know it’s very difficult to put the things together in the same place once they are shattered. So, we always replaced with the new for everything possible- destroyed toys with new toys, old cars with new cars, aged houses with new houses, and old cities with new cities and so on. The tragedy of the last 1000 years with the humankind is that we never tried to see the actual cost of our blissful desires.  The cost that other living creatures and the biosphere had to bear in those processes o...

Climate Change is no more a problem for the least developed and developing countries only. It is now a big problem for the whole of humanity. If we want to preserve humanity on Earth, it must be viewed from the global citizen lens. Yes! there are differences in culture, religion, language, and nations but we should understand that none of these notions are bigger than the earth itself. There are denials of climate change. So, let’s acknowledge them, first. Let's forget about climate change and think. Are there answers with climate denial theorists, for questions like- why there are more deaths due to heatwaves in recent decades? Why the frequency of extreme weather events has been increasing?   What are the answers to the families whose members died in the recent heatwave in the Quebec City of Canada? who can give the explanation to the families of the Farmer committing suicide due to drought in India? How will we face the victims of recent disasters due to the cyclone in small...