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The busy East-West shipping route passes six to ten nautical miles south of the country. More than 60,000 ships ply this route annually carrying two thirds of the world’s oil and half its container shipments. Although there are thousands of ships passing by Sri Lanka every day, major ship accidents are rare. However, the fire on X-Press Pearl is the second accident during the last 10 months.

Vasudaiva Kutumbakam,* they do proclaim.
But ‘foreign faiths’ are in the way they claim.

draft of the Industrial Relations (Central) Recognition of Negotiating Union or Negotiating Council and Adjudication of disputes of Trade Unions Rules 2021

As a fresh returnee to India, this distinguished alumni from IIT Bombay was the youngest signatory to the 1981 statement on “scientific temper” — it derived from a world view that linked the role of science to civil and human rights. Baptised in the democratic protests against the Vietnam war in the US, he brought his street-fighting passion to his frontline involvement in the pursuit of justice and accountability in India

Lack of scientific temper – indeed, a definite anti-science attitude — might sound funny, even innocuous. But this has disastrous consequences, some of which we are witnessing currently.