Vijay K Santhosh

We are connected, perhaps too closely, too immediately. With Nigeria and Boko Haram. With Paris and Charlie Hebdo. Ferguson, MO. Eric Garner in New York. George Zimmerman. Iraq. Syria. It’s easy to continue this list–too easy. What we tend to want are simple solutions, dichotomies, dualities, one choice or another–not complexities and subtleties. But the human brain, the human culture, the human genome, the human body and the systems in and through which we operate are damned complicated. ~ Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins gets a great deal of press, and sometimes he gets criticism for his popularity; but in a recent interview he states in apparently simple terms how complex the human condition is, and why we need compassion, and poetry: The poem shows us that these emotions, love and grief, have been going on through the centuries; and that the emotion we’re feeling today is not just our emotion, it’s the human emotion. Poetry is the only history we have of human emotions. M...

It's just the starting of the Maritime industry that people want to explore more places. When they started it, that was the sole purpose. And also along with that the commercial trading also. When Vasco Da Gama came to India his sole purpose was to explore India and take over the trade of pepper, which was the utmost expensive and luxurious food spice in all over Europe.. They were succeeded in that and took over everything...  This was just a starting of commercial trade between the countries. But now a days Maritime industry is booming, as they say,  day by day bigger ships are introduced. Those kind of ships which we thought to be impossible to build,  is being build now. And in this precipice of time I feel it's the saturation point. But apart from my all expectations bigger and bigger ships are being built and taken on the trade. I always wonder how they can manage these kind of ships, but again there my assumptions were wrong and came to the bigger ships are act...