Besan Ka Halwa

THE ‘SHERLOCK’ED WORLD Why the most loveable fictitious character will never die and why his reinvention is inexorable. Today’s world is fiction-hungry, fiction-famished rather! Almost every week there’s a book launch and of which majority are of the fiction genre. A plethora of imaginary characters encompasses us but we are pretty much ‘addicted’ to the old wine. The old wine which is served in an exotic new bottle almost every half-decade. By the ‘wine’ I mean the immortal incisive shrewd phlegmatic consulting detective ‘Sherlock Holmes’ who has lived only in his readers’ hearts and minds for comfortably over a century now. Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. John H. Watson, who is the narrator of the original series of novels and stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, are one of the most enigmatic pair one has read. Although there is absolutely no doubt about the literary genius of Sir Conan Doyle, the basic reason why his brain-child became immortal lies in the s...

Global Warming + Global Cooling= Global Destruction Climate Change Poses an Unprecedented Threat to the World- Asia in Particular   There is absolutely no doubt about Global Warming actually happening. Since the 1980s this major issue has been knocking over enthusiastic heads from all over the globe. Despite of some amateurish researches in the mid 2000s proving that it is basically a non-issue, this global phenomenon has come to the forefront courtesy the IPCC report of last week. The independent panel headed by Prof R K Pachauri had categorically stated that Asia will have to mend its ways in order to get respite from the sinister climate change. The IPCC predicted that in another 50 years about 5-degree-rise in temperature is expected to be recorded. (And in terms of the best case scenario not less than 2-degree-rise.) However that is not of importance at the moment. What is important is that the prediction of climate changing rapidly and very rapidly at a rate t...