Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ==========================================  Just finished watching first USA presidential debate (in steps) First 2020 Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW1lY5jFNcQ  The actual debate starts around 27 mins. 50 secs and goes on till around 2 hrs. 3 mins. Please note that I have a PUBLICLY (POLITICALLY) NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about USA politics. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me having voted in USA elections. I am a well-wisher of the people of the USA. ------------------------------------------- Lata Mangeshkar on S.P. ...

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ========================================== Great to see Amitabh Bachchan recover and get back home https://twitter.com/SrBachchan/status/1289889025474535425 Above tweet text (of Amitabh Bachchan): "T 3613 - I have tested CoVid- have been discharged. I am back home in solitary quarantine.  Grace of the Almighty, blessings of Ma Babuji, prayers & duas of near & dear & friends fans EF .. and the excellent care and nursing at Nanavati made it possible for me to see this day ." ------------------------ From COVID-19: Serum Institute gets nod for Phase 2, 3 trials of Oxford vaccine, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/covid-19-dcgi-nod-to-sii-for-phase...

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ========================================== [Still pic (kind of) and Audio] Majhe Maher Pandhari - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT-HB67NVLE, around 7 mins --------- I saw the whole video. Thanks to @Sundaram Hammond for sharing it.  I think some of the language that Dr. Zelenko used (genocide, mass murder etc.) was unwarranted and needlessly controversial, given the trauma the world is going through due to COVID-19 pandemic. But as a medical doctor (in upstate New York, USA), he has the right to share his views and his experience of treating COVID-19 patients with his "protocol" (Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Azithromycin). And I do think ...

Last updated on 5th Sept. 2020 For me, one important marker of the impact of COVID pandemic on Indian business & industry, was the late March 2020 freeze on my work on printed version of my 2020 self-published book on Indian CS/IT academic reform. I had submitted a modified version of the book to Notion Press (self-publishing platform company) on 16th March 2020 which completed the review in late March 2020. But I could not place an order to check out the printed book copy as India had got into a big lockdown and printed books (or at least books like those authored by me) were non-essential items whose production and sale were frozen! Note that ebook version sales were not a problem, if I recall correctly, as there are no COVID pandemic issues for ebook sales. Over the next weeks & months, slowly India started unlock with e-commerce sites being allowed to sell essential goods. I bought some such essential goods on amazon.in in mid May 2020. If I recall correctly, amazon.in had ...