Nita Chicooree-Mercier
Africa-Press – Mauritius. Right now, the world is full of sound and fury, the international arena is a battlefield of rival world powers vying for influence and space, Mother Earth is overburdened and exhausted from pressures on her capacity to house and feed everyone.
Earthquakes take thousands of lives within a few minutes, fires run wild like hell, floods unleash unbelievable volumes of water while scorched land runs dry from severe droughts, and cracks in African lands show signs of splitting the continent in two and likely to drift apart in the ocean.
Indonesia has taken care to build another capital outside the mainland since Jakarta has been sinking for years. Tiny Maldives is threatening to oust Indian military presence from its soil in a muscle-flexing bid no matter when the island is going to disappear in the Indian Ocean, and part of Mumbai may yield to the raging waters of the Arabian Sea in years to come.
To top it all, medical experts are raising warnings of a deadlier virus than Covid-19 and are gearing up to counter Disease X. Move on with our business as usual and look for stability in an unstable world and positive news around the world.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Katalin Koriko and Drew Weissman for their work in enabling the development of mRNA vaccine at the University of Pennsylvania.
They did their best to come out with a vaccine not for money and award but for interest in science and out of curiosity to break frontiers on the path of progress.
The US remains the best place for bright and ambitious people to carry out research and further progress in key fields of technology and science. This is what Koriko from Hungary did.
It is more than one century now that the United States smartly set itself the mission to draw the best brains from around the world and realized all the benefits and prestige it can reap from the tremendous progress that has been achieved on its territory. The launching and landing of space shuttle Perseverance was supervised by a woman scientist of Indian origin a few years back in the US.Pic – Al Arabiya How a book can change the life of a person and bring about changes in society is the glaring example of Nouf Marwaai. She is the first Saudi Yoga Acharya in Saudi Arabia.
She was afflicted with lupus disease since childhood and had to drop out of high school. Her father, an official in a Saudi ministry, came back from a trip abroad with a book on yoga.
The book sparked off a deep curiosity in yoga, and Nouf Marwaai started practising the asanas in 1998. She went to India to study yoga and its philosophy.
Yoga changed her life and her health completely. She graduated in clinical psychology in Saudi Arabia and managed to use both disciplines in her endeavour to share her experience with fellow compatriots.
Nouf Marwaai approached the authorities to gain recognition for the teaching of yoga, and she created the first Arab Foundation of Yoga in her country after people started coming up to her for yoga classes.
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