Less and less room for respect - Anoushka Shankar    

“ In California, when they talk about immigrants, it might be Mexicans they are referring to when they speak in these horrifically dehumanizing ways,  or in Italy, it might be Somalians.  But the attitude is the same, as is the process of distraction from the real causes of the problems people are struggling with. In other words, the spreading of intolerance due to fear is the same, and an increasingly prevalent shouty sound-byte culture around the world leaves less and less room for respectful, nuanced dialogue.   

Believe OR Not  - Arnab Ray 

I am radical sceptic, in that I follow mathematician Rene Descartes, who once said that the only thing that he could accept as truth, without doubt, the only  axiom in the universe, was that he existed, purely based on the fact that if he did not exist, he would not be having doubts about everything else, or cogitoergosum,  “I think therefore I am.”  Since I think and I am sure I exist, I do not believe anything I hear on the news nowadays.  I just cannot.  No one knows the political affiliations of a journalist or who is actually behind the news or the ideological slant of the channel or whether the person writing the piece is part of godi media or anti-national media, Avengers or Justice League, Illuminati or Knights Templar, you can never tell.

Saving the forests is saving ourselves - Steve Winter

“The ecosystem is like a body.  Taking any predator out is like a major organ failing.  If one of our major organs fails, we either die or we have lots of problems for the rest of our life. We put big cats on this mystical pedestal but their homes are vitally important to us.  The forests and grasslands in which they live produce around 30% of the planet’s oxygen.  The Amazon forest, for instance, creates its own climate.  When Sao Polo doesn’t have any rains, it is because they have cut down the Amazon forest.  By saving the big cats we are saving the forests, and saving ourselves.”

The Pay Gap : A Dismal Show

A 2019 study by Researchers at Lancaster University found male Hollywood stars earn about $1.1million  more per film than similarly experienced female co-stars.

Female stars can reportedly be paid  56% less than their male counterparts – that is about $2.2million less per film.

Interestingly, action films have been particularly gender-biased in pay.  Male stars are reportedly paid at least $1.8m more than female stars.

Numerous woman A-list stars, including Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, & Jennifer Lawrence have called for the end of the gender pay gap, demanding ‘equal pay for equal work.’