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Recently after lunch, me and one of my close friends were walking towards our office. At that time an Old lady stopped her car and asked for directions to a hospital. We explained how to get to the hospital to her, however, she said she could not understand what we told her, since she was deaf. So we told that we would drive and she could follow us to the hospital. I pulled my car and along with my friend drove to the hospital and She followed us. After few minutes we found the hospital. She was happy and thanked us and told us " God bless you ". We did a very small positive thing, but felt completely satisfied with what we did and her blessings motivated further more. Anyone will feel excellent after doing a good thing even if it is small deed. That’s why it is very very hard to understand the negative things going on the world. Even a small bad thing can trigger more and more evil deeds. World witnessed the evil in INDIA, recently. This was totally EVIL, DESTRUCT...

As an Environmental Scientist, I have been studying pollution indicators for several years. Any living organism can act as an indicator of Environmental conditions in any area. For example a recent news about a coastal area in Tamil Nadu indicates that it's environmental condition is deterioriating. Several birds migrate to this important and Environmentally critical Coastal area for breeding. Sandpiper, Spoon bills, Seagulls, and Pelicans are some of the birds. However this year most of the migratory birds did not show up here indicated that the area has been degraded environmentally. Even though industries pledged (almost a year back) to eliminate effluent discharge into coastal areas (“Zero Liquid Discharge”), the birds did not show up due to Environmental degradation and they acted as Environmental Indicators. I came across beautiful birds pictures by Capt.Balakrishnan in the following flickr site: Beautiful Birds by Captain Balakrishnan It is time to take proper actio...