Blog me...curiosity redefined

       I thank God for giving humans a break. I know many agree with me as this lock down phase or the Covid-19 effect is showing us what we as humans need to introspect. I can hear the sound of the birds chirping at my house, even heard that the Yamuna river is now 50% less populated. Look at the Bangalore air, we have 60% less pollution. Can't we as Human Beings, being part of this Universe, give back this much to the mother Nature? The least we can do is stay home for at least a month or a couple of it, to save it.       Mother Nature knows how to balance the karma as per the laws. It is indeed shameful that we were forced to obey. We being the most intelligent species on the planet should have learnt how to survive without spoiling it. But unfortunately our egos did not let it be so. Instead we were humbled forcefully by Her. I just hope at least we learn now.        Macro economically, a country's progress need not have to b...

        At the end of the day, what matters is if we are giving back an ecosystem that our children are proud of? In simple terms, can the air they breathe, water they drink, food they eat be of good quality as we do now?  In our pursuit to compete and outsmart one another, we are destroying the natural resources that are available to us. At this trend, what will our next generation have? Hope you don't want them to rehabilitate to Mars or find another galaxy like milky way in another universe. Photo courtesy - Internet         What can we do to avoid this? At the corporate level, can we imbibe the values to conserve and protect our depleting natural resources? Should we follow the Bhutan way of carbon-free country? If so, our understanding of economical progress will be wrong. GDP or GNP will not an appropriate index to measure economic progress instead we need to look for Gross National Happiness Index(GNH). As simple as our quality o...