On 4th January, 2022 the Theranos Founder Elizabeth A. Holmes Found Guilty of Investor Fraud on the grounds of conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud investors in Theranos, Inc. The verdicts follow a 15-week trial. I have been fascinated with Theranos and its enigmatic founder Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos was […]
Author: Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy
Uninstalling WhatsApp – Defeating Mark Zuckerberg
Like millions of Indians and billions of the world, I too have a smart phone. I have been using the smart phone for various purposes – check emails, take calls, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Twitter and Coo and many more! Eery day a new app / a new program is invented and we download it. […]
WHY ARE WE SCARED OF DEATH?
It is a common feature across the globe…everyone is scared of death…. afraid of death. Nobody wants to die…everybody wants to live forever. The medical technology, advancement of sciences has not defeated death. They became successful in prolonging the suffering. Had there not been these…the hospitals the nurses the oxygen cylinders and the countless machines […]
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
It was raining on that morning. As usual I was up by 2:40am. Got ready. Due to rain, I could not go for the usual morning walk. Having left with no other option, I proceeded to my library to study undisturbed. My morning reading resulted into the present title FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. When […]
UNIVERSAL FREE CREMATIONS – 6. Hindus Reject CNG and Electric Cremations?
Often, we discuss about the environment and how to safeguard it. There are many reproaches against Hindu open-air wood cremations. Scientific studies have pointed out that open-air wood cremations of Hindus are also contributing to the present environmental calamities. Many people ask the question ‘why Hindus only do open-air wood cremations?’ Why can they not […]
Time is Strange
I am writing as we may not have this conversation in person in immediate future. I want to tell you how I feel and to tell you some of the things that are difficult to say. I remember your father being your age and promising himself that he would do a better job of being […]
Sayonara Yahoo India
Computers are very recent. Sometime in mid-1990s, I was trying to learn computers. There used to be two institutes which were considered as very good and they were APTECH and NIIT. They used to charge exorbitantly. Further, the penetration of the idea, that computers are the future, into human psyche was too slow. People used […]
Bhagwan Baniya Hai
You may be surprised and so will every reader! Bhagwan Baniya Hai? To translate this into English – ‘God is a Businessman’. In India, Baniya is a caste, known for its business talents. Here, we are not symbolizing caste…but an activity. God is a businessman. ‘God Business’ is another business. In the name of God, […]
5. Importance of Tulsi / Why people Revere Tulsi?
Two years ago, I went to Mumbai to attend a marriage. I was well taken care of by the marriage hosts who arranged my stay at the Taj Bandstand. Taj Bandstand is an iconic hotel of the Taj group. Though I do not know why it is called as Bandstand…but who cares? I stayed there […]
4. Can Every Type of Wood Be Used for Cremations?
In the series of Hindu death, none told us,regarding the 16th samskara Anthyesti, what type of wood to be used for cremations. Anthyesti can roughly be translated as Last Rites in English. We read in the newspapers, watched on television, come across incidents in social media – where the dead are cremated using old, discarded […]
