Ideas & Views

I could not understand why historians have to compare Tagore and Gandhi. When I first read Gandhiji's works and literature on Gandhi, I instantly admired him and became a keen observer of some of his principles like ahimsa and simplicity. When I started reading Tagore's works, I instantly fell in love with him !!!! I was prompted to consume volumes of literature about Tagore. I had this compulsion to know every aspect of Tagore. I tried to read every piece of work and words that were ever told and written about him. He appeared to be the ideal person who was all that vedanta could convey. Indeed, I was stunned that he was the first person to be of that characteristics to have gained a place in both international arena and common man's hearts (apart from personalities who were branded as proper Saints like Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa , Swami Vivekananda, etc). Gandhi was a great political leader, helping the masses decide what is good for the country as a whole and how

a quite exhausting read on how geneticists and biotechnology companies function both in the past and present. exhausting because of too many characters and incidences (or it could be that i have lost the taste and patience to read fiction anymore). 'Next' is an eye opener to the non-biology herd. Crichton has painted a picture of the real life events...how biotech companies steal data, report results that are totally made up and what goes behind the screen in the case of banned research. till now, i was not even aware that genes could be patented!!! it came as a shock to me. how can this be true??? totally unreasonable and absurd. imagine Newton patenting Gravity or Einstein patenting Time and Space !!!!! gene, that forms the fundamental constituent of every life form has been patented and still being patented by companies that discover an attribute of a gene(something like this). hence, no research could be carried out by anyone else on that gene without paying heavy royalti