Govind Gujar: entomologist's journey to understand the Society we live in

                    20 November 2021      Today’s (19 th Nov) news on the repeal of three farm laws is in a sense breaking news. Nobody expected such an announcement, as the Indian Government had repeatedly held its ground on the farm laws that these are in the interest of farmers. It had agreed to revise the laws to the extent to remove prejudices against the farmers' interests or to meet the purpose of natural justice. Earlier, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party in power had repeatedly vilified the farmers’ protests calling them names. And hence, this development is a sudden U-turn. Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked of sincere efforts of his Government to improve the farmers’ conditions through enacting these laws. He felt that the Government failed in convincing the farmers their merits and sincerely apologised to the farmers and people for the hardship they suffered. These farm laws were passed a ye...

  It has been my dream to see the Egyptian civilization. It is one of the most ancient ones, land of pharaohs, mummies and pyramids, reportedly about 7000 years old. The sheer huge size of pyramids reportedly many times higher than the World Trade Center in New York, huge sand stones weighing as much as 60 tons each transported far away from quarries to lower Egypt near Cairo all hold every reader and every tourist spell bound. Spiced further are the movies based on Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and others. We reached Cairo in the afternoon of the 21 st Oct. by the Etihad Airline. At the airport, we had our rapid antigen tests for Covid. After 2-3 hr wait for our negative results, we sighed a relief and left airport for the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities/Egyptian Museum near Tahrir square. A mention of Tahrir square evoked memories of uprising, peoples’ protest, that started on the 25 th Jan 2011 for about 3 weeks against the erstwhile Egyptian Presiden...