Global Citizen Speaking

For last millions of years since the origin of life, living beings are getting born and died. The death of members of our species horrifies us and postmortem changes and putrefaction makes it impossible for us to let it remain with us. The human bings have tried many ways to deal with it from mummification to burial, cremation and leaving it to be fed by vultures. In our country most of the families practice cremation or burial of dead body. These things can be done very simply but these things are done elaboraterly and ritually that makes them very taxing upon mind, time and purse of bereaved families. There is no sense in giving bath and wrapping shroud to the dead body – the dead body may be wrapped in a sheet over clothes already worn. We must understand that that person is no more and nothing is going to help him or her and it is quite likely that he or she is in better status if there is any existence after death and if there is no existence after death then there is no sense i...

Viewing things either as male or as female has distorted our perceptions. Only some living things are male and female and even such things require gender free word most of the times. For example a human being needs to be addressed by some common word but the common word ‘man’ has been taken by male of the species. The male has penis and female has womb- so woman is correct word for female of human species and accordingly male of human species must be called ‘peman’ while man should be used where there is no need to express gender. At microscopic level, the female gamete remains at one place and male gamete reaches it and gets attached. 1. Most harm has caused to our thinking and feelings by understanding God in male image. 2. Many things having nothing to do with sex dichotomy are understood as male or female- for example in Hindi palang is masculine while kursi and mez are feminine. 3. Even our emotions are treated as masculine or feminine for example pyaar is masculine and muhabbat ...