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We can survive too

Decision of respective Doctors in 2003 to let conjoint individuals live must have been challenging. The environment in which they were allowed to grow after their parents raised their hands too is creditworthy. Hats off to Sohna and Mohana to take on the society on its terms and emerge winner as they are successful in getting employed and have aspirations to contribute. Many challenges however open up in terms of Law and legal provisions. For example they have two votes but one salary? Two identities were given in society to a person in 2003 where going by mythology Ravan had one name but ten heads? There are few who would consider decision of Doctors, not to do required surgery such that the individual would have little chanllenges to live in a society so enamoured on physicallity , a question to debate. Furthermore is this event opening a new chapter in human evolution?

Land and Property Ownership- Rationale is Old

Human population has grown to billions and land mass is shrinking. Should we revisit the logic of ownership and inheritance? Recently High Court in India dumped a case from seemingly legal heir of Lal Kila (Red Fort) in India saying you are 157 years late. The property is being used by unlawful hands ( dispute is being raised for due process of compensation not followed). If law goes by a time bar, then justification of cause is suspect. No body owns a piece of land. Human take birth, live life and die. Government is using it for public good. The concept should be expanded to entire land mass. How laws of land can provide for exclusion of land by private ownership and then provide for succession in a family at huge cost to rest of community. Needless chaos is pervading on account of property ownerships and related disputes. Land is for public good. Humans can be happier if ownership of land is shared as a community like a cooperative. There should be a thought for future. Actions for...