From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. ~ Carl Sagan.

The above quote is meant for our planet Earth, represented by that Pale Blue Dot in the image taken by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers from Earth. Yes, that’s the planet we live in. That’s where all our love blossomed. All our memories reside. All our life was spent. All our knowledge was gathered. And I call it the Planet of Love.

I keep traveling, but my home is in Kolkata, the “City of Joy”. It is in the eastern part of India. I am proud to be a Bengalee and I speak 3 out of top 7 languages across the world.

In this blog I explore various aspects of life, including science and socio-economic culture. The greatest of all blessings that knowledge gives us is, our mind becomes more and more open for ideas. I write down such ideas and thoughts here. Hope you like some of them. If you have any suggestion how this blog can be further improved, I will be very happy to hear those from you.

Have a great time while you are here.

Thank you.

~ Jeet Guha Thakurta