Intellectual pollution

Pollution of intellectual environment demands attention. It is not that intellectual pollution is to be controlled by censoring. It is the free expression of ideas that propels growth of knowledge. Nothing can be taken for granted as truth. Search for knowledge makes progress by revealing new partial truths or falsehood.Then what can be the definition of 'intellectual garbage'? Any idea that is intentionally fed into the knowledge stream to mislead and manipulate intellectual search can be considered as garbage. Only the intellectual honesty of 'knowledge workers' can prevent this pollution.

Evening in Nelliyampathy

Upper Kothayar

A morning at Ooty Hill station

Dusk at Humpi

Nila Nadi (Bharatha Puzha) At Pattambi

Chitharal Malai Koil

Misty and grassy

Slim beauty

Misty morning

Kozhikode beach

Athirappally waterfalls

To Mankind

EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, IF YOU DONOT HAVE THE WILL TO COMPLETE YOUR TASKS, LIFE BECOMES MEANINGLESS.

Genome and Junk DNA

Human genome and genomes of almost all other eukaryotes have the so called junk DNA. It may have regulatory  functions besides being material for the generation of new genes and sites for many new mutations. Possibility that portions of junk DNA may regulate gene expression by its structural and positional properties with out producing any RNA sequence should also be investigated. 

Mangayam

Beauty

Beauty is the quality of an image to evoke expectations of well being and survival in an individual based on species instincts.Objects apparently unrelated to these expectations also can have this quality in a subtle way.

Search for Knowledge

Human search for knowledge is an adaptation at species level. It enables him to understand and control his environment. This can increase the potential for survival of the species. But why he tries to understand himself is a more complex question. 

From a Tamil Nadu Village

God and Genes

Different degrees of belief and disbelief in God may have a genetic basis. It is not that belief-disbelief is a contrasting character pair and mono-genic. Different degrees are involved. Before the final expression it is considerably modified by cultural factors. However the final expression at the population level is considerably skewed towards belief. 

Biology of human activities

All human activities have biological basis. Art, philosophy, aesthetics, belief, culture and politics have biological  basis. They are part of our survival as a species.