Nat Yogachandra

Do we care for Syrian people? Where is Justice for humanity?   The current civil war in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Half the country’s pre-war population — more than 11 million people — have been killed or forced to flee their homes. Children are dying there. At least 96 children have been killed and hundreds injured in eastern Aleppo, since Friday, UNICEF said. It is sickening and the big powers are keep on feeding the war machine. Innocent women and children are being slaughtered every day. Even the outgoing United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his farewell speech at UN General Assembly meeting last week said that the powerful countries on both sides in the Syrian conflict “have blood on their hands.” He is helpless. Two days ago, Ban Ki Moon described the situation in Aleppo as worse than a slaughterhouse at a UN meeting. The countries involved in the conflict are using the latest and more destructive weapo...

Politics in the United States and around the world remains a major divide between humanity. This country is bitterly divided - racism still exists - as it has b een for well over a decade. The two major parties and their representatives in this great country are more divided along ideological lines, and the resulting political animosity towards each other is deeper and more extensive, than at any time in recent U.S. history. Look at the world. The news and happenings around the world over the past year has been sad and heartbreaking. As former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said a few years ago or put it mildly - the world is a mess. Every fresh atrocity in the United States or around the globe manages to find some new ways of shocking to me. Iraq and Syria are falling into chaos with millions of refugees fleeing violence, British disagreements with the European Union, coup attempts in Turkey, and myriads of conflicts in Asia are few concerns facing us. It se...

The world has become a much more unequal place to live and there are no justice and unity. So,this is it…the richest one percent of the world’s population now own more than the rest of us combined, according to a report released by an aid group called Oxfam, last week. This increase in gap between rich and poor has created a world where 62 people own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, some 3.5 billion people - as the super-rich have grown richer and the poor poorer. The world has become a much more unequal place to live and there are no justice and unity.  Guess what, of the 62 people said to hold as much wealth as the poorest 50 percent, according to Oxfam report, 53 are men and just nine are female, highlighting that women are ill-represented even at the highest levels. It is sad that in the 21st century, a relatively small percentage of humankind has immense wealth, while the majority of the world's population lives in dire poverty and misery. ...

Je suis Charlie” or “ Je ne suis Charlie ”  I am Charlie or I am not Charlie If religion is the cause of hate and disunity, it would be best for us not to have a religion at all. Religion has been a major feature in many historical conflicts and even today religion, instead of uniting the whole world has always been at the forefront of disunity and the cause of many terrorist activities around the globe. Muslims are fighting Christians and Jews in Africa and the Middle East, Buddhists are fighting Muslims in Sri Lanka and Myanmar and Hindus are fighting Muslims in India.  And, just last week, Muslims have staged angry protests across the world from Turkey to the Philippines over French magazine Charlie Hebdo' s decision to depict the Prophet Mohammed on its latest front cover. A few days ago, Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has killed scores of worshipers and burned down four churches in a major attack on Christians in several villages in Nigeria as a result of...