time

Growing older is so definite. When young, we feel we will be young forever, but past 45, old age is visible there in the horizon...that's when I really truly realised that time moves in only one direction. But later, I am coming to believe maybe it doesn't....maybe, we just dont perceive backwards movement of time. ...

nilgiris

It is sad to see the devastation in the Nilgiris.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/12/stories/2009111250160100.htm

http://wownilgiris.blogspot.com/

Our hills and coasts are the most vulnerable to the climate change we see. Life is unfair .
The climate change caused by the industrialised countries in the last 200 years is hitting us now.

coming back

Coming back after a long time, what makes me write is the realisation that great minds start working at an early age and need to be nurtured, not by others, but by the person himself/herslf.
I have always felt that our schools do not nurture the thinking child. That is true for most children. But a truly great mind, the real genius, does not need nurturing from outside. The person somehow finds ways to whet his own curiosity and ways to improve his skills. I obviously won't know how, but that it happens, I am sure. This is because they go to the same schools, same colleges as others who end up as bank clerks or office managers, but go on to do Nobel work.

http://reflections-shivanand.blogspot.com/2009/10/missed-physics-nobel-2009-narendra.html
A boy gets his path breaking idea in school, sticks to it through college, and ends up working on it for his PhD, and gives teh world a miracle.....light through a pipeline!!
Such minds do not need the school physics teacher, or the incompetent college lecturer!!