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Can We Defeat Death?                            *Saumitra Mohan             The ‘Second Law of Thermodynamics’ says that entropy results in the gradual decline and death of all systems including stars, people and the universe. The ‘Law of Natural Selection’ has ensured hereditary transfer of immortal genes through generations. This has also guaranteed the replacement of the present with the posterity through the instrumentality of death.             Death, defined as the permanent cessation of all biological functions sustaining a living organism, is brought about through ageing, predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide, starvation, dehydration, accidents or major trauma resulting in a fatal injury.            The remnants of an organism n...

Dissent is the fulcrum of a democracy                                                                                                 *Saumitra Mohan             Dissent and democracy are often considered synonymous in a liberal-democratic social order. It is through open debate and discussion that the huge range of diversity of opinion in a democracy is captured. It is by means of such continuous conversation on relevant issues and contretemps that the real t...