Dr S Ranganathan

The secret of the birth of Lord Krishna is believed to be to destroy all evil forces and protect the good ones.   Prior to the birth of lord Krishna, Kamsa was the ruler of Mathura and Kamsa was described as cruel, arrogant, heartless demon king.   Finally Lord Vishnu has decided to take birth in the form of an ordinary human being in Yadava clan as Lord Krishna.   Ironically Krishna chose the sister of Kamsa, Devaki and her husband Vasudeva as his parents.     Knowing the fact that one of the sons of Devaki would kill Kamsa, he immediately imprisoned his sister Devaki and her husband Vasudeva and started to kill all children born to them one after the other.   At last Krishna was born but escaped the prison.   When Kamsa knew the escape of Krishna, immediately he ordered to kill all male children born during the period in his king down to ensure the extermination of Lord Krishna is achieved.   And finally Krishna killed Kamsa. Novel ...

Time has come; people of India must ask what is not known about novel coronavirus, the disease caused by the virus, named as COVID 19 and the possible susceptibility factors.   About the virus, reasonable scientific details are known.   About the disease COVID 19 is also known to a great extent to all of us.   In India, compared other countries, most of the people who are tested positive for coronavirus are asymptomatic, meaning they do not show any signs and symptoms of the disease.   Those who suffer from various co-morbidities are the primary target of the virus and they are likely to develop COVID 19 and likely to die.   When we know the etiological agent, its mode of spread, susceptible population, vulnerable or risk group and finally the likely asymptomatic carriers of the virus, what is our problem in protecting and safeguarding our risk group population without lockdown?   Should we not handover the responsibility of protecting our ...

Modern man – Homo sapiens since time immemorial or from his hunter-gatherer days, has been hunting for ‘Roti, Kapada and Makkan’ (food, shelter and cloth).   This can be explained in modern day expression as Maslow’s hierarchy.   The novel coronavirus started to spread everywhere in India like the ducks, cats and cows in Old MacDonald’s farm “Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on this farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O! With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, Everywhere a moo-moo” The only solution to prevent the spread of corona in India, according to Modi was shut down India for 40 days or more, nothing should be allowed to operate in India during the lock down period except the permission to the citizens to breathe through face mask.   Those who defy the lock down rule even if it was due to certain obvious reasons were treated as criminals, terrorists or anti-nationals and most of those people were bruised with brutalit...

Thousands and thousands of human deaths being reported all over the world due to COVID 19 ever since the first outbreak of novel corona occurred from Wuhan, China.   But today, the entire medical and scientific community are a bit confused over how to designate the mortality because the post-mortem examination of the patients who were initially thought have been died of COVID 19 tells a new story which was not known or heard before.      The post-mortem examination of lungs and other internal organs of the above patients have revealed a different picture to the medical fraternity that https://science.thewire.in/health/what-the-first-covid-19-autopsy-reports-tell-us/ many of the patients died were with novel coronavirus and not due to novel coronavirus.     It means the ‘poor or innocent’ novel coronavirus was not the cause of death.   Now the far developed countries like US, UK, Italy etc., wants to call all such deaths as not due t...

The interview of Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, the senior scientist at Indian council of Medical Research (ICMR) to NDTV, a reputed English news channel raises more concerns and worries about our countries economy and the acute unemployment crisis than about novel corona.   https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-80-per-cent-cases-asymptomatic-matter-of-concern-medical-research-body-icmrs-scientist-t-2214799?pfrom=home-topscroll According to the ICMR scientist, 80% of the people turned positive for novel corona are asymptomatic.   Based on the contact tracing epidemiological rule book, testing of people is being followed based on the likely contact chain of the positive case.   The R 0 method is a reverse format where the contact details of the positive persons are traced reversely and the tested for the virus and then quarantined.   Would this method work effectively for India in identifying all those positive cases of corona is a million dollar que...

The recent interview of a few epidemiologists in India after seeing the steady increase in corona positive cases made their opinion clear and crisp that India’s young must be exposed to novel corona to develop herd immunity and that is the only way we can solve the pandemic and we must try to save and protect those vulnerable groups from novel corona, at any cost.     We should look at the views of the epidemiologists as strategic retreat or conceding defeat in our war against corona.    In a country like India, even if one individual carries or harbours corona virus for a minimum of 3-5 days is sufficient to spread the virus to large proportion of our population considering the R 0 value of the virus.   Eliminating the virus in India is almost impossible.   Further, the confusion created by the scientists with their incidental or accidental observation about the survival rate of corona in air, external artefacts, its presence in faecal discharge, ...

Ashvatthama was the only son of Dronacharya, the teacher of both Pandavas and Kauravas. During Mahabharat war, Lord Krishna advised Yudhisthira to play a trick with Drona so the Drona is defeated easily.   Accordingly, an elephant called Ashvatthama was killed and then Arjuna shouted he has killed Ashvatthama.    Yudhisthira later confirmed the death of Ashvatthama loudly but the reference of the elephant alone he whispered.   On hearing the death of elephant Ashvatthama to be his son, Drona went into comatose state and Arjuna killed him.   The son of Drona,   Ashvatthama got very angry and took Brahmastra against Pandavas to settle his revenge. Brahmastra is considered to be an extremely powerful weapon and should be used only as last option and should not be used in the beginning of war and that was the war ethics prevalent even those days.   For self-defence, Krishna advised Arjuna to fire his Brahmastra to deal the Brahmastra o...