Beware of Fake News & Malicious Propaganda

Pen Mightier Than The Sword!

With the introduction of Internet and the increase in its popularity the pen has become mightier than the sword. In this net age there cannot be a more adequate saying than this popular one.

Yes there are more readers well in millions now if not billions, and news is within easy reach of them. With this widespread COVID 19 pandemic or coronavirus people have more time to visit these sites which they come across frequently in the cyberspace. 

This opportunity is being widely exploited by authors who are political opportunists and those with biased ideological leaning and bigots. False malicious message or propaganda as skillfully crafted half truth is being spread among people using news, articles, videos and blogs. Those with reputation and employed by foreign media, and those with seditious tendencies are most vociferous. 

Half baked celebrities, some media persons and some writers all with ill intents, few overzealous intolerant evangelists all are making a dive for this social opportunity to further their malicious cause. Some are seeking cheap popularity while some are trying to rake in the country's detractors maybe for hire and what not. 

Even Nation's with anti-India agenda are resorting to false news, negative and preconceived opinion pieces, malicious half truths, news distortions in order to to impress International rights communities  and organisations against us and further their ill conceived plans and cause.       

These are turbulent times when we have to be cautious in believing the fake media and the propaganda distributed by the likes mentioned above. Hastily accepting this malady propagated through the Internet and social media sites is giving into dangerous emotions and playing around with negative belief against others. These people are not honest towards and do not care for your well being.

All this is leading to disharmony, religious disturbances and overall weakening of the Nation. United We Stand!

Shouldn't we believe in ourselves, and make the Nation strong by fortifying religious harmony through tolerance and understanding, discouraging the detractors and supporting the Governments chosen by the people. 

The right to oppose and dissent is guaranteed in our constitution - what we call the freedom of speech - but should it favour or promote sedition or create disturbances in civil society?   

Opposition and dissent should not become a tool for prejudice, undue political gains, and self promotion in public life. 

Anyway these very false attributes are going to be revealed one day. You cannot fool the public for long and then it will turn against the detractors en masse.

So please stick to the rules and aesthetics.

Jai Hind!

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Uday is a content writer and seo service provider. He also teaches Digital Marketing in Jabalpur in Summer.
As a freelance Naturalist he loves to blog on wildlife, tigers, conservation and environmental issues hence the article.
He can be contact at:
pateluday90@hotmail.com
09755089323

COVID-19 : After The Lockdown

A commendable action does not mean a commendable gain. But in case of Covid-19 humanity seems to be winning the battle albeit painfully slow.  The lockdown has been been borne by the majority with a stoic acceptance and somewhat as fait accompli. 

But the act of closing the movement of people albeit imperative has slowed down the economy by bringing to halt the churning wheels of daily chores. In some cases businesses have come to sudden halt  impairing income especially that of daily wage earners and the downtrodden.  

Death looms large and people stay inside peeping out only for the essentials - medicine, grocery and milk. This has been a terrible inconvenience for active souls. Locked up in the house they have come to know the number of cracks in the wall hitherto neglected. Well not only this a large number of issues must have come to life in this stale air of stillness. Of conjugal relationship less highlighted the better. 

But the stress is telling not only among the people bolted within the four corners of the house but on the Governments as well. The economy must spin and wheels of progress must go round and round as they did before this coronavirus was heaped upon the unsuspecting humanity.   

After strict lockdown and amelioration the things need to open a step at a time. But in case of economy the haste is obvious in a poverty stricken country like India. In spite of all the precautions - Stay At Home - many places in our country are still in red zone and even during the relief containment zones would be locked proper with no respite to those within. 

How long this will go on nobody knows. Well it depends upon the efficiency and speed of testing and the effectiveness of quarantine.  People will bear in silence but the religious zealots are the biggest threat. Yes internal order is of utmost importance and the administration would find it difficult to contain in case of such leaks.    

The final solution it seems is not the heat nor the CHQ or any other panacea, it is the development of effective vaccine that will win the battle. That is more than a year away hence the Government will loosen the lock down in places with less incursion of the pandemic. 

This will be the post lockdown period and a dangerous one in the sense that community movement will start fervently even whence the malady is there albeit in some other quarters. The cautious one's will have to use all the etiquette learned during the active period in their realms.  The not so cautious one's will be playing with fire and increasing the chance of spread once again. 

As rightly pointed out this malady is not restricted by boundaries whether state or International. It would not infect on basis of caste, creed or colour. It will be for each person to save himself from this deadly virus. 

One will have to live in a virtual lockdown, in isolation, distancing during work, avoiding get togethers hence no parties, avoiding places where crowd could be formed. It certainly will be different World the one with which we are terribly unfamiliar. There will be noose hanging over all the time.   

The post lockdown period would not a period of absolute emancipation it would a freedom at possible cost. Hence take care!

• This is the price we will be paying for desecrating rules of nature and causing an environmental disaster. As the first step, lets stop felling trees and killing and consuming wild life forms. All the wet markets selling exotic meat have to be shut down permanently. We now know how caged animals feel. Lets stop keeping pets in cages and aquariums zoonotic disease may be transmitted not only by meat consumption, the pets may be the transmitter in future. 

There is no other option.  Keep Safe! 
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Uday is a content writer and seo service provider. He also teaches Digital Marketing in Jabalpur in Summer.
As a freelance Naturalist he loves to blog on wildlife, tigers, conservation and environmental issues hence the article.
He can be contact at:
pateluday90@hotmail.com
09755089323

Global Economic Models! Are We Auguring Extinction?

With mass extinction taking place on Earth and having lost innumerable species, it is time for us to rethink. The extinction is continuous as many species all over the Earth are dying on day to day basis. The valuable forests our green lungs are being rapidly devoured for wealth and survival. There are lot of incongruities that is threatening life on Earth a delicate and fragile ecosystem. Life depends upon an equilibrium created by innumerable earthly elements and we are dependent upon that till we can trans-locate to another planet with life supporting systems.  

With this COVID - 19 pandemic our time has come as well? 

Well it is only a conjecture but you never no. With rapid incidence of disease and disorders, internecine wars, overpopulation, self annihilating weapons and a failed economic model we are dying for sure! Albeit slowly.   

Why is extinction happening regularly? 

Some species naturally become extincting when their contributory role is over on Earth. But most of the extinction that is taking place is at the behest of humans and their inimical activities. The race to amass wealth is the case of already developed countries and for the less fortunate it is a race for survival. But that is our creation overpopulation, lack of conservation ethos, greed and what not. Nature does not understands human predicament it is a fragile web of life in conjunction with limited earthly elements where a fatal rupture is taking place at the present juncture.         

Infinite economic growth and unchecked infrastructure development not forgetting ill planned urbanization all at the cost of our environment is the cause of the deadly menace we are facing. The unmitigated lust for having a go at limited natural resources is a common occurrence at this juncture , it is the work of an economic model that is causing harm to our environment and leading towards species extinction that includes us humans.

Albeit as harmful to Earth, the global warming and the resultant climate change pale out whence compared with deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

While there should Global regulations and restrictions as regards the commercial activities like industrialization and exploitation of natural resources the idea appears to be at best chimerical. With the Earth in absolute chaos we have to look within!

Forget about the World order, we in India are also under the deadly spell of this pandemic. Labelled as a developing country with abject poverty all over we are hard pressed to provide life of sustenance to an overpopulated mass.

The ill planned economic models are cause of death and destruction all over the World India too is contributory. Hence we have to sit back and rationalize. hat is going wrong? Development is an imperative but at what cost?

The impact of unchecked natural resource utilization and denudation of scarce ecosystems has contributed to environmental ills that we are witnessing and more is to come. 

When environmentalist protest against National policies it does augur extreme and honest circumspection if not more. How we can move ahead minimizing harmful actions and policies? This pandemic albeit a zoonotic disease is an indication of what happens when we do not stick to responsible behavior and continue to indulge propelled more by instinct than careful planning.

In India our ecosystems (remaining), natural resources, and vast stretches of open land which even though do not constitute as ecosystem are valuable to us for the environment's sake. In short we have to minimize land use and exploitation of natural resources in our country. This will help, even though we will not be left unscathed by the impact of inimical global activities that are raging uncontrolled around us. It will be a good beginning anyway and exemplary.    

Why the affect of COVID-19 has been sparing in our country? Although too early to say as it is not  understood well yet. But it could be because of something we have been doing right? 

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Uday is a content writer and seo service provider. He also teaches Digital Marketing in Jabalpur in Summer.
As a freelance Naturalist he loves to blog on wildlife, tigers, conservation and environmental issues hence the article.
He can be contact at:
pateluday90@hotmail.com
09755089323

Coronavirus: Death And Destruction

Coronavirus Pandemic!

The economic fallout is destructive as destructive as a holocaust. The viral epidemic has created its own saga,  a sordid tale of unfolding human tragedy that shows no sign of abating and mitigating our sorrows. 

Ironically the major impact has been in countries with top of the rung medical care systems and an enviable economic hierarchy firmly established in the global ladder of development. USA, Italy and Spain to name a few are under the spell of the viral agent and some of the sufferers  there are dropping like pins and needles. Poof!

No amount of research and development has created a platform wherein we could deal efficiently with this menace that has sprung a surprise. Lockdown is the only recourse we have that too for breaking the chain of infections not decimating the invisible monster. 

A tiny invisible spec of a germ is holding us for a ransom and the ransom is very much explicit. Stop fooling with nature! But paradoxically in spite of such deadly epidemics, World wars, internecine uprisings, global warming and climate change we will not do what the instances warn us about again and again.  

The fight against pandemic has has lead us to extol stories of valour, sacrifice and stoic wait in each and every country affected. It is the battle for survival of the meek against the mighty and the latter is COVID-19. The war that began in one small corner of the World has spread like bush fire consuming humans in its wake. The battle rages on in spite of gigantic efforts by countries enmeshed in this ravage.

But when will the rot stem and what cost it will extract...the projections are speculative. Yes how will it all end? People in affected countries are hoping for a vaccine as saviour or anti malarial remedy to come to their rescue, there are myriads of solutions enumerated by the enlightened, the soothsayers, psychics and what not.      

Unfortunately we fail to grasp the reason behind this apocalyptical onslaught that is slaughtering us from unknown gaps and crevices we can barely guess. Somehow or the other the impact will decrease And yes a solution would be found. What then? 

This is a clear cut case of cause and effect. We are bound by a food chain which has norms and we have to follow a consumption pattern it dictates. We just cannot consume what is not a part of our present food chain perhaps. We are omnivorous but with limitations, we cannot consume exotic animals, birds, reptiles and insects which are not in our regular diet. Irregular exotic food consumption will not enable the development of immunity within us, hence the prevalence of deadly zoonotics will keep on rampaging the human society.  

In order to retain life support systems on Earth and keep it in an equilibrium we need to behave responsibly else we will have to keep on  tackling the deadly epidemics that surge now and then. But this is not all, we have to change our relationship with Earth and all elements that are part of it. 

The unchecked fossil fuel consumption, mining, rabid industrialization and ensuing pollution to name few negatives are responsible for global warming, hence the climate and the depletion of ozone layer. Should we not take remedial actions at fast pace?

In isolation we will certainly perish we have see the Earth in a holistic perspective and define laws and regulations in order to prevent what is inimical to our only home in the Universe. Now is the time whence these laws and regulations have to be implemented on global scale and not individually by countries.  There has to be uniform World order. 

It is time we unequivocally speak against the consumption of exotic meats. It is time the World bodies stepped in to ban unholy  practices quite common in some countries. There should be stringent application of Wildlife Protect Act like in India all over the Globe.  If we are lax in these remedial actions and also continue to denude the ecosystems we are doomed. Doomed!
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Uday is a content writer and seo service provider. He also teaches Digital Marketing in Jabalpur in Summer.
As a freelance Naturalist he loves to blog on wildlife, tigers, conservation and environmental issues hence the article.
He can be contact at:
pateluday90@hotmail.com
09755089323

Coronavirus Conundrum - Nature Fights Back

Coronavirus & Our Environment!

While the World seethes under the impact of deadly coronavirus, we have no remedial measure in place. Social isolation and stay at home  are not a remedies but mitigating nonetheless that will be practiced in continuance for our well being. But even at this perilous juncture there are gaps and loopholes. Take for example people resisting isolation measures on ideological pretext. This is disastrous and inimical to our National interest and should be put to stop with a firm hand.

With thousands dying every day paradoxically in countries with advanced medical care there seems to be no end to it. In this quagmire of deadly pandemic few facts are emerging which albeit have yet to be quantified. The impact of this menace has been more in cold countries and statistics are testimony to that. In time to come more facts will emerge. 

Why heavily populated countries like India are not reeling under an impact as severe as that in Italy, Spain and US is bit hard to conjecture?

Is there a disaster in waiting for dense populations that could be an easy target for this rapidly mutating pathogen?

Perhaps rising temperatures have something to do with this low level impact in some countries. But this has not been hundred percent proven albeit many such countries are waiting for temperature to rise.   

Pandemics & Nature!

This tragedy that is holding the World in consternation is being seen as an invasive disaster shaped perhaps by evolution. But this is a myopic approach and we have to pay greater attention to the root cause of emergence of such pandemics on Earth. 

World has been subject to pandemics at regular intervals and this is no surprise. With rapidly deteriorating environment these incidences of deadly pandemics are going to hasten. And we continue to go against nature in our greed for amassing wealth by breaking rules and that too with great haste and impunity. Where this mad race for wealth creation will lead us nobody knows? But it has certainly lead to deadly Corona! And more is in offing. 

What we do not realize is that we live in a well defined environment created by a large ecosystem. Well many of us do know this but mired as we are in a material World we continue to move into the black hole.

Yes wealth accumulation precedes care for our environment, we have been given a free hand to create wealth with no holds barred, no principles. In spite of such economic disparities we have yet to realize the folly of system we have created. And there is no governing arm as  regards to illogical and irrational lifestyles in many countries. How do we put a stop to this? 

It is each for self (Nations) with abject disregard for what holes we are leaving in the process. Dependency on fossil fuels, excessive exploitation of natural resources, rabid industrialisation and infrastructure development, overflowing populations, internecine wars, economic and ideological wars, irrational lifestyles and consumptions....these are inimical to well being of our ecosystem...and we will continue to face the wrath of nature.  Our survival is in question and if this is not apocalyptical than what is? 

Uniform World Order

It is evident now we need a uniform World order, a governance and restriction mechanism which prohibits exploitation of natural wealth, prevents damage to remaining ecosystems and keeps a strict hold on exotic irrational lifestyles. 

From the denudation being carried out by emerging economies to rainforests everywhere, disastrous mining projects and the wet markets in countries like China the latter are a confirmed source of zoonotic disease.  At this juncture we need to halt and think rationally. We need to free ourselves of this disastrous quagmire by a paradigm shift.     

We are well aware of race for amassing wealth, no one country is ever going to listen but nevertheless we can pinpoint the disasters in making and stem the rot at least in some of these instances.  

Most of the World bodies are defunct or not functioning to peak levels. What we need are globally effective, strong punitive and isolating measures such that any environmentally damaging continuance would come to a stop. This may appear to be impractical and irrational to some but this is the way ahead in order find a way out of this quagmire we have landed ourselves into. 

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Uday is a content writer and seo service provider. He also teaches Digital Marketing in Jabalpur in Summer.
As a freelance Naturalist he loves to blog on wildlife, tigers, conservation and environmental issues hence the article.
He can be contact at:
pateluday90@hotmail.com
09755089323