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

            2 3  May  20 22 Woes of parents whose children are abroad: Are they alone? Take a look at those whose children live within a country I have got a paper cutting on the woes of parents, old in age, whose children are living abroad in my whatsapp university post. Physician who is treating such parents reports their increasing isolation, loneliness and depression, all leading to miserable lives and lonely deaths. Parents are being shifted to the old-age homes or senior citizen homes where facilities like those of medical, kitchen, hobbies, sports and others are available collectively too. Of course, most of us are not familiar with the old-age homes or senior citizen homes, despite these being better equipped for their needs. Parents have always lived with their children until they die. And this tradition of looking after parents in the old age is carried on by one or more of their children, mostly sons. And this is likely to be s...

             3 May 2022 On this auspicious day of Akshaya tritiya , I made donation for the cause of feeding children who are our future. I have been volunteering for the Akshayapatra Foundation (an offshoot of ISKON) for the last three years to raise funds for their various activities especially related to children. I have visited their kitchen at Jaipur. I have found the workers committed to the cause. Please donate to the best of ability. No donation is small donation. Donate now as it is never late. Thanking you.                    Here is a weblink.                      https://www.akshayapatra.org/active-fundraising-campaigns/feed-the-child-secure-the-future-2  

 1 May 2022 Many years ago, I was travelling by air to Surat, an Indian city in the Gujarat state. The aircraft was small, with carrying capacity of about 40, and meant to fly low unlike the normal ones that fly as high as 35000 ft above the sea level and at the speed of 600-700 km per hr. This aircraft would take about two hr for a journey of about 1000 km. As Surat city known for its textile and jewellery especially diamonds, air journey was limited with few sorties each day by the airlines, primarily by Indian Airlines. My final destination was a town of Navsari which serves as headquarter of the Navsari Agricultural University in the South Gujarat. Normally, a journey is often spent by most air travellers either listening to their smartphone or working on laptops or reading newspapers or watching aimlessly outside the window if they are sitting in those seats. Rarely, air travellers speak to fellow sitting next to them, let alone acknowledge even presence. This is contrast to...