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Positive people also
have negative thoughts.
they just don't allow
those thoughts
to control them.
great value of having
good people around us
is not what we get
from them
but the better person
we become is
because of them
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
SMILE
A smile can open a heart
faster than a key can
open a door..
Smiles are free
so don't save them..
Brighten the world
with your smile..
WHEN YOU EDIT
Please take care when we publish
Abundant caution is the key word
Words can settle
Words can unsettle
Words can crumble edifices
Editing is an art
It is a thankless job
Editing has to be from 'A' to 'Z'
Editor has to be extremely alert
It's not a casual job
It's not a cavalier approach
That is called for
Nor it should be done with a perfunctory
Or casual approach
Sunday, August 3, 2025
MK SANOO // SANOO MASH
MK Sanoo, affectionately known as Sanoo Mash, 96, passed away on 2nd August 2025.
He had been a towering figure in Kerala's political and cultural landscape. He was at once a critic, writer, teacher, thinker, social activist and a former legislator. He had remained an active and enthusiastic presence in public affairs until the very end, despite the frailties of age. He believed old age is a great pain.
He has authored over 50 works spanning various literary genres, including criticism, commentary, children's literature, biography and literature. He was indeed a multifaceted personality. He was an eternal presence to all he came into contact with.
His biographies stand apart for their depth and candor.
Even at the age of 90, he was sharp, articulate and full of clarity. Hia insights hadn't faded. They had grown deeper. Once when he was queried why he was so drawn to tragic heroes in Western literature, he had been eloquent. He explained how Hamlet, Oedipus, Romeo and others belonged to that category. He said, "They were individuals with willpower, courage and talent who scaled great heights and had fallen. The higher they rose, the greater they fell." He added that their mistakes might have shaped their tragic end.
In 'Changampuzha Krishna Pillai:Nakkshthrangalude Snehabhajanam', he explores Changampuzha not just as a literary icon, but also as an obsessive lover - delving into the emotional complexities and hidden struggles that shaped his pursuit of love and intimacy.
For Sanoo Mash, students were his pride and wealth. His Malayalam classes were a space where students from all streams had gathered. He was a deeply caring person. He was full of concern and empathy for others.
He was a left fellow traveller who always had believed in socialism. But he was a total believer in the existence of God. He believed chanting mantras had the power to heal. He was sanguine there was indeed an external force that guided all to greater goodness and kindness.
Speaking about writers, he had maintained, they had a single role to play - to write well. He wanted them to show the readers the multi dimensional reality of the world and unveil an aesthetic truth that they alone could unfold through what they deliver. He had been of the view that a writer should be in an ivory tower to write well though the writer should never be living there. He emphasised that unless the writer wrote from an ivory tower, he would be losing his focus whereas detachment aroused the creativity in him. According to him, detachment helps the writer meditate on his work. He signed off referring to Samuel Beckett who had said that art was the apotheosis of solitude.
Sanoo Mash was truly our generation's voice.
Sourced from report in Times of India of 3rd August2025 and articles in the newspaper by Viju.B,
P K Abhayakumar, CICC Jayachandran,& M K Sunilkumar
AI STAR SYSTEM HELPS THE BARREN TO CONCEIVE //ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Times of India of 30th July 2025 in its 'Technology for Health' series quotes Cleveland Clinic and DrZevWilliams and presents the article 'After 19 years of trying for a baby, this couple lost hope.But AI made it happen'
In a first, AI has helped a woman to become pregnant. Azoospermia (no detectable sperm in ejaculate) had been preventing it for 19 years, though the couple had been through 15 failed IVF cycles. The Technology adopted is called Sperm Track and Recovery (STAR) system.
The Columbia University Fertility Center developed STAR to detect "really, really, really rare sperm", the kind lab technicians fail to find in azoospermia samples. Dr.Dev Williams, Director, Columbia University Fertility Center ans STAR developer told Times Magazine, "I liken it to finding a needle hidden within a thousand haystacks. But it can do that in a couple of hours - and so gently that the sperm that we recover can be utilised to fertilise an egg."
For five years, Williams and his team perfected the system using a sperm-detecting AI algorithm. The process starts with a fluidic chip flowing the semen sample through a small tube on a plastic chip. Once AI confirms sperm presence, that bit of semen is diverted to a separate tube. Whataever few sperm there are in the sample can be isolated in such a way that could either be used to fertilise an egg or frozen for later use.
That's exactly what Williams and his team did for the couple. Just two hours after collecting the husband's sperm, they got to know the wife's eggs had been successfully fertilised, ready for transfer to the uterus in a few days. The wife is four months pregnant now and the both the mother and the fetus are doing welL.
Columbia University Fertility Center says the STAR system is a groundbreaking advancement for men diagnosed with azoozspermia adding, "This system can detect and retrieve even the smallest numbers of sperm gently and without harsh chemicals or lasers, using cutting edge AI, high speed imaging and robotics.Azoospermia affects around 1% of all men and accounts for 10% of all male fertility issues. The most common cause of the condition is a blockage in the male reproductive tract.
What makes STAR ahead is tha it can successfully isolate the sperm in a semen sample where male infertility is involved. The interesting fact is when embryologists had worked hard for two days in analysing one of the semen samples and couldn't find any sperm STAR had found 44 in an hour.
The dream of the scientists is to advise people with no hope of having a child, they can go on and have healthy children.
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