Mearl Colaco

  Oh, ya, I love this person so much that I will support everything he or she says and can even die for that person. This kind of blind loyalty is what is killing our society and our world. The common person is so blindly in love with another person, a political figure or celebrity that we just start believing what they say and become blind followers. Not only that, in return, our loyalty makes them powerful and wealthy. I was born and raised in Bombay, which is a city on the West Coast of India. There are two large political parties in India namely the Congress and the BJP. I grew up in a household where all the adults in my family supported a political party out of the two large ones. Election after election, they voted for the same party, so much so that when I turned 18 and was eligible to vote, I cast my first vote ever to the same political party that my family voted for over the years, over many generations. I see the same similarity in the United States, where every hous

Today’s shooting in a church in Texas made me curious to dig into the number of shootings that have taken the lives of so many innocent people - mostly the middle-class - this year alone. I googled to get the number of people who have died and who were injured from these barbaric incidents and I came across a mass shooting tracking website that has been reporting shooting incidents in the United States since the year 2013. The shocking thing is gun shootings are so common in the United States that we need the help of Data Scientists and Statisticians to help us track and analyze the number of shootings, the number of people murdered, and the number of people injured from these shootings. Sad but true!  I am not here to report the number of gun shootings in America, but, tell me, how can we tolerate more than 500 people dead and more than 1500 injured by gunshots alone in 2017. Like, how are we able to tolerate this without doing anything about it? I absolutely understand if we