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The world as we know it is made up of people and then you have the Peter Principle!

Introduced in a Book of the same name by Laurence J. Peter and R Suttton!

It is an interesting principle which effectively states that everyone in an organization reaches to his or her own level of incompetence and peaks!

There are plenty of examples of this and it is very interesting to say the least!

Imagine a cricketer who is a great batsman, he or she would be promoted higher up the order and finally may even be made the captain! But it is seen that as he or she gets promoted higher and higher, he or she will finally reach a position where he or she will actually underperform! Which is the chief reason why once you are at the top, you must quit!

It is like the credit card scam! Your credit limit is at first very low but an easily achievable limit! You are then given an option to slowly and steadily increase your spending limit! Till you reach a point when you can no longer pay the limit!

Even in government jobs it is seen that a person who has been appointed because of a certain skill is given more and more responsibilities but then finally it will reach a point when the work suffers and how!

The Peter principle is therefore expressed as: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

This leads to Peter’s corollary: “In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.”

The corollary applies to the managers of big firms and the officials in a government place! So the chief and the heads are actually reached point in which they are actually incompetent!

The best solution suggested by the author is that the person in such a position must be offered the position just one level below the current position and he or she will be competent in that!

So if you have been routinely and regularly being promoted and getting skill upgraded and have reached a top position then the  best position for you is one step below than the top! That is the position you will shine!

Do remember that Human body is not a machine, there are parts you cannot replace and you do not have a check engine light! In spite of ‘service’ there is no guarantee that you will ‘run’ or ‘work’ for another 10000 km! So when you realise that you have reached the top then step down!

Which is why many actors do not like the Lifetime achievement award! It is like a sentence which states that, “You have done enough! Please stop!”

Then again you have actors like Tammareddy Chalapathi Rao who proved the Peter Principle wrong by being the best even at the top!

Now you reached the Plateau of your day! The only way to go now is down! To the bed that is!

SHubh ratri!

One of the most difficult things to do is to make someone laugh!

Of course it is also difficult to make someone cry! Making someone sad or angry is easy though! But humans nowadays do not like to cry! One of the few traits which is actually human is something which humans do not like to do in case other people realise that they are human!

Anyway; the popularity of stand up comedians is testimonial to the fact that laughter is serious business!

Then again some comedy like the slapstick ones, the laughter is more to do with actions rather than words while the stand up acts rely more on the words.

If you include garbage and cuss words and talking ‘dirty’ then it is much easier to make someone or at least a group laugh! But the real art is to make someone laugh with pure wit and intelligence!

In fact in the past, the court jesters like Tenali Raman were actually some of the most cleverest people in the court who used to use humour to make their point. Now it has been seen that communication needs intentionality and making someone laugh needs more grades of intentionality!

So although laughter is probably of deep evolutionary origin, the telling of jokes, being language-based, is likely to be of more recent origin within the human lineage.

In language-based communication, speaker and listener are engaged in a process of mutually understanding each other’s intentions (mindstates), with a conversation minimally requiring three orders of intentionality.

Mentalizing is cognitively more demanding than non-mentalizing cognition, and there is a well-attested limit at five orders in the levels of intentionality at which normal adult humans can work!

Within this limit the quality of jokes appears to peak when they include five to six levels of intentionality, which suggest that audiences appreciate higher mentalizing complex!

Meaning clever jokes are more funny or some jokes can only seem funny to clever people! I still remember one Joke I told in my grade 8 about a talk between The plump Churchill and the slim G B Shaw! I found it so hilarious! But when I told it, no one laughed! This included my teacher! Which is when I comforted myself that you need a level of intelligence to get that one! It can also be that it was a bad joke! You decide!

‘Winston Churchill came upon George Bernard Shaw at a cocktail party and greeted him by saying ‘Looking at you, one would think there is a famine in England’.
Shaw, whose 1926 Nobel Prize was awarded for ‘stimulating satire’, replied ‘looking at you, one would think you caused it’!

Now I am not saying that if you found the joke funny then you are intelligent, you may be street smart and not find it funny!

Now a joke can be funny or not depending on your situation and mood which is the same with song (not funny but good or bad!). Speaking of song reminds me of Gulshan Kumar Dua!

Felt good after the sketch! Especially his eyes!

Shubh ratri!

Read about Gold and then the Golden egg to the Golden Egg which broke the internet! The last line is just a saying! Internet is not broken!

You have a Golden heart! The Jewels are Gold and silence is Golden! Gold is the first medal and Gold is the top!

Gold is gold not only because it does not react with anyone or anything but also because it is supposedly very OLD!

The gold chain you are wearing right now is may be as old as the universe and will remain long after you have gone, may be till the end of time!

Did you know that Gold is even linked to the creation of life!? Also it is the root behind the terminology of ACID TEST!

Now Gold is thought to have been produced in supernova nucleosynthesis, and from the collision of neutron stars and to have been present in the dust from which the Solar System formed!

Because the Earth was molten when it was formed, almost all of the gold present in the early Earth probably sank into the planetary core!

The symbol Au is from the Latin: aurum, the Latin word for “gold”. The ancestor of aurum meant “glow”.
This word is derived from the same root  as the ancestor of the Latin word Aurora, “dawn”.
This etymological relationship is presumably behind the frequent claim that aurum meant “shining dawn”!

Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property long used to refine gold and giving rise to the term ACID TEST! So you can pass the test only if you are pure GOLD!

The Hiranyagarbha Sukta in the Rig Veda, the Vayu Purana, Bhagavata Purana and Brahmanda Purana mention the golden womb, the Hiranyagarbha or Brahmanda, the Cosmic Egg – that is sometimes interpreted as the golden foetus or embryo – that, floating in a dark void, contracted and gave birth to the universe and all that’s part of it – containing both male and female principles in union!

Another Purana called the Matsya-purana, after the great dissolution of the universe, the SWAYAMBHU (the self manifested being), arose. It created the primordial waters first and placed the seed of creation into it, which turned into a golden womb, the Hiranyagarbha! The Golden Egg or Hiranyagarbha floated around in the ocean of non-existence till it broke into two and that is how Life began!

This complex theme of the Golden egg was re-imagined by a painter with more golden marvels!

Around the year 1740, a painter from the hills of Guler (Himachal Pradesh) created a painting featuring an “egg”. Today, this hologram-like artwork is heralded as one of the masterpieces of Indian art.

In January 2019, an egg broke the internet to become the “most-liked” picture on Instagram!

So what is so impressive about this painting?

Well the answer lies in the way Manaku executed this artwork.
So In April 2018, The Heritage Lab worked with the acclaimed scholar, Prof. B.N Goswamy on his book ‘Readings in Indian Art’ revealed a unique feature of this painting!

When laid flat, the egg in the painting appears brown; once it is held in hand to be viewed, it gleams golden!

Doesn’t it sound a lot like one of those holograms you might have played with as kids? The only difference is that this 3-d effect was created more than 200 years ago – by hand! Is that not mind blowing!?

Manaku created the perfect balance between the swirls of the ocean in the background (movement) and the stillness of the perfectly oval Golden Egg in the foreground!

Golden are also those old movies like Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne! It’s bengali! But amazing is that one of the assistant directors of that was
Virender Raj Anand! You may know him as Tinnu Anand!

Now hope you also know that not only silence but sleep is also golden!

Shubh ratri!

Did you enjoy the labour day the other day!?

Lucky you!

Then again you have to thank stonemasons and a riot for your holiday!

So apparently on 21 April 1856, Australian stonemasons in Victoria undertook a mass stoppage as part of the eight-hour workday movement.

This started to become a yearly commemoration, inspiring American workers to have their first stoppage.

Then again the whole thing started to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago. That was another strike which became chaos!

In that year beginning on 1 May, there was a general strike for the eight-hour workday. On 4 May, the police acted to disperse a public assembly in support of the strike when an unidentified person threw a bomb. The police responded by firing on the workers. The event led to the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; sixty police officers were injured, as were one hundred and fifteen civilians.
Hundreds of labour leaders and sympathizers were later rounded-up and four were executed by hanging, after a trial that was seen as a miscarriage of justice! The jury and the judges were blamed to be very unfair and biased!

The following day on 5 May, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the state militia fired on a crowd of strikers killing seven, including a schoolboy and a man feeding chickens in his yard

In 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers, in commemoration of this Haymarket Riot in Chicago .

Five years later, U.S. Pres. Grover Cleveland, uneasy with the socialist origins of Workers’ Day, signed legislation to make Labor Day—already held in some states on the first Monday of September—the official U.S. holiday in honour of workers. Canada followed suit not long afterwards.

The Haymarket tragedy inspired generations of labour leaders, leftist activists, and artists and has been commemorated in monuments, murals, and posters throughout the world, especially in Europe and Latin America.

In 1893 the Haymarket Martyrs Monument was erected in a cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Forest Park. A statue dedicated to the slain police officers, erected in Haymarket Square in 1889, was moved to the Chicago Police Department’s training academy in the early 1970s after it was repeatedly damaged by leftist radicals.

Now that is history! Which leads to May day or Labour day! Some lucky ones get a holiday while many like us fake a smile and move on!

May day is thus a celebration of the work done by workers all over the world and a reiteration of the 8 hour a day work and six days in a week work rule!

Of course not everyone and every country has to follow the day! Though they do follow the 8 hour work rule most of the time!
A rule breaker of sorts also was Aruna with her unique roles!

Now you may not have had a holiday on may day, you can make tomorrow the star wars day!
Since then you can say MAY The fourth be with you!

Shubh Ratri!

Have you heard of a ‘latrine fall’? Or more accurately Erfurt latrine fall?

Yes, it is both what you are thinking and not what you are thinking!

Of all the ways to go, this is certainly not Noble!

Also remember that a petty fight can lead to a fall into the latrine!

Do read the blog only after taking some antacids!

So In July 1184, King Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, who was ruler of Erfurt and the future Holy Roman Emperor, convoked a ‘Hoftag’, or informal assembly.

This was within the Petersberg citadel at Erfurt (in modern-day Germany).

The gathering aimed to address a dispute between the Archbishop of Mainz, Conrad of Wittelsbach, and Ludwig III, Landgrave of Thuringia.

The precise origins of the two men’s fight may not be known but people can fight over anything though land dispute seems to be the prime suspect! Closely followed by politics! Guess the world has not changed much for so many years!

Determined to mediate and resolve the feud, Henry summoned dozens of aristocrats and high-ranking officials from across the empire to attend a meeting! A Noble deed indeed!

The Hoftag commenced on the morning of 26 July, with many delegates arriving the day before, but it was not long before disaster struck.

The ancient wooden floor of the church collapsed under the combined weight of the nobles, and they were sent plummeting to the floor below! It of course did not help that the Nobles were in the prime of health and well fed!

Below waiting for them was the building’s fetid cesspit. Medieval latrines, primitive and often perilously constructed, were a far cry from the luxuries of modern sanitation, often amounting to nothing more than large pits where sewage was gathered. Erfurt was about to give a stark lesson in the dangers of such basic facilities!

Revolting and tragic in equal measure, an estimated 60 to 100 nobles perished: either crushed by the falling woodwork, drowned in the horrific contents of the latrine, or asphyxiated by the unholy fumes emitted by the rotting sewage!

Yet in spite of the huge death toll, all the key players in the dispute miraculously survived. King Henry and Archbishop Conrad escaped death by clinging to iron window railings.

Henry’s survival that day ensured that his reign dramatically reshaped politics in Europe. This might have taken a different turn had he perished in Erfurt’s cesspit.

Now in spite of the stink, I am sure everyone would be wondering whether the original dispute resolved? Well, the shocking event with toxic smell rendered any attempt of peace void in every sense!

It appears the enmity between Ludwig III and Archbishop Conrad may have persisted, but no Noble ever tried to intervene again especially indoors!

Hygiene was never a priority in this period, but the Erfurt Latrine Disaster stands as one of medieval Europe’s most bizarre and stomach-turning incidents! Luckily since ancient times, Hygiene has been given major importance in Bharat!

More importantly, any such dispute would have most probably solved by a discussion under a tree where the only risk would be an occasional bird dropping! A much better alternative to the  Erfurt latrine fall!

Now that was a tragedy but later on it did get a humorous angle. Humor reminds me of Mario Miranda! My natural talent is being a Cartoonist which is why if I do not concentrate fully, the sketch has a very high chance of looking cartoonish! Then again being a huge comic book nerd I love cartoons especially the ones by R K Laxman who is my top favorite! Love Mario Miranda’s sketches too since they are typical! A normal sketch with exaggerated nose eyes or other face features!

The sketch though is real! Not cartoonish! I hope!

Shubh ratri!

Dialetheism is the view that there are statements which are both true and false. More precisely, it is the belief that there can be a true statement whose negation is also true. Such statements are called “true contradictions”, dialetheia, or non dualism

A dialetheia is a sentence, such that both it and its negation, are true. If falsity is assumed to be the truth of negation, a dialetheia is a sentence which is both true and false. Such a sentence is, or has, what is called a truth-value glut, in distinction to a gap, a sentence that is neither true nor false.

Dialetheism is the view that there are dialetheias’. If we define a contradiction as a couple of sentences of which one is the negation of the other, or as a conjunction of such sentences, then dialetheism amounts to the claim that there are true contradictions. As such, dialetheism opposes—contradicts—the Law of Non-Contradiction (LNC), sometimes also called the Law of Contradiction.

Aristotle was the one who introduced (what was later to be called) the LNC as “the most certain of all principles” in the book—firmissimum omnium principiorum, as the Medieval theologians said.

Dialetheism  was the viewpoint as mentioned in the book ‘In Contradiction’ by Graham Priest, who is credited with giving the first substantial argument for glut theory, and for its defense. (Priest, along with Richard Sylvan, née Routley, coined the neologism ‘dialetheism’, though there is no similar neologism coined for gap theory.)

Ambiguous situations may cause humans to affirm both a proposition and its negation. For example, if John stands in the doorway to a room, it may seem reasonable both to affirm that John is in the room and to affirm that John is not in the room!


The Jain philosophical doctrine of anekantavada—non-one-sidedness—states that all statements are true in some sense and false in another!
Simply put what looks like six to you may be nine to someone else!

In the end it’s a point of view!

Being right is only a time dependant factor! So if you are in an argument remember Dialetheism!

Of course there is no argument that people like Anand Gopal Mahindra are important for atma nirbhar bharat!

It is night but Dialetheism means that it is day somewhere else!

You make your choice! I have made a choice to sleep!

SHubh Ratri!

Do you know what is a CRISPR? No! It is not the Romanian word for the British word for, well chips!

By the way, In British English, ‘crisps’ refers to what North Americans call potato chips—thin, fried slices of potato, while ‘chips’ in the UK means French fries!

But CRISPR is not what you can eat but it is a scientific treat!

In a book called eugenics we see how the CRISPR-cas9 technique is making human gene editing seem more socially acceptable. This is a way to tackle the telomerase issue which is directly linked to ageing!

Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have been awarded the ultimate science prize for their breakthrough research on CRISPR technology! Their work and as well as the vital contributions of other scientists has paved the way for the emergence of CRISPR as the most powerful gene-editing tool!

The full form is a handful though! Clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats or (CRISPR)/Cas9! As mentioned before it is a gene-editing technology causing a major upheaval in biomedical research. It makes it possible to correct errors in the genome and turn on or off genes in cells and organisms quickly, cheaply and with relative ease.

Apparently the CRISPR/Cas9 system evolved naturally in bacteria and archaea as a defense mechanism against phage infection and plasmid transfer.

Now things get a little technical!

So Bacteria or archaea acquire a segment of their DNA sequence to insert into the CRISPR spacer region when first infiltrated by an exogenous phage or plasmid. If reinfected with homologous DNA, the bacterium will initiate transcription of the CRISPR region.

After a series of processing and maturation processes to generate a single guide RNA (sgRNA), the sgRNA guides Cas9 to shear the DNA strand that disrupts the homologous spacer region.
The recognition process of the sgRNA requires the involvement of protospacer-adjacent motifs (PAMs), a short guanine-enriched sequence.9

The preferred PAM by Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) is NGG, which is common in the genomes of most organisms, thereby facilitating the use of CRISPR technology across the fields of plant and animal science, together with biomedicine. This is where the CRISPR technology comes in!

By changing the nucleotide sequence of a small segment of guide RNA, CRISPR/Cas9 allows the accurate targeting of almost any desired genomic locus for the purpose of correcting disease-causing mutations or silencing genes associated with disease onset!

WIth proper research and more time the promising applications for this technology include the treatment of cancers, cardiovascular diseases, sickle cell anemia, and neurodegenerative disease!

In the future when there is a troubled Genetic disorder do not be alarmed if the doctor says, “Do not fret! We have the CRISPR!”
Then again do not pretend to know what it is anyway! Since it is not as easy as it seems! Then again it may not have been easy to make the first indian movie Raja Harishchandra truth be told! Which is why the biggest award in the cinema is named after him! Shri Dadasaheb Phalke!

Now do not eat any crisp of the potato kind in the night if you want to have a good sleep!

SHubh Ratri!

This may be the only food in the world which can never go bad!

It is also the word which your spouse can occasionally call you when she is ready to forgive you for her mistake!

No no! Stop imagining some animal!

It is Honey! The former one that is! the latter I am more or less sure!

Honey has been called the only food that truly lasts forever, thanks to its magical chemistry and the handiwork of bees. The nectar from flowers mixes with enzymes inside the bees that extract it, which changes the nectar’s composition and breaks it down into simple sugars that are deposited into honeycombs. Fanning action from the bees’ wings and the enzymes from their stomachs create a liquid that is both highly acidic and low in moisture!

Which is why it is so lucky that the Bees did not take after their ancestors!

Evolution wise bees and the wasps were actually cousins! Both Bees and Wasps have evolved from single ancestor; the Hunting wasps!

Bees evolved from hunting wasps more than 100 million years ago and it can be hard to tell the two apart!

One way to do this could be to take them out for dinner, as in general bees are vegetarian and wasps are carnivorous!

Only honey bees make large quantities of honey and wax. Bumblebees make a small amount of both, but not on the same commercial level. There are eleven species of honeybees, also known as ‘Apis’, worldwide but ‘Apis mellifera’ is the most productive honey producing species.

All bees forage for protein-rich pollen and sugar-rich nectar from flowers. Honeybees convert nectar into honey so that it can used as a source of food through the winter, when nectar is scarce. The honey has a higher calorific value than pure nectar and can be stored for longer as it is more resistant to bacterial degradation. A healthy colony can produce two or three times the amount of honey it needs.

Now the issue is that the wings of the Bees are actually smaller for their bodies and feels like a misfit! But nature is the perfect engineer!

Scientists used to think that a bee’s wings were rigid, making bees kind of like little planes that moved hard wings up and down. But bee wings are fairly small for their body size, so even at 230 beats per second, rigid wings wouldn’t be able to let bees fly!

Using high-quality video that could show the bee wing beats in slow motion, they finally figured the secret. Their wings are not rigid, but twist and rotate during flight. Bee wings make short, quick sweeping motions front and back, front and back.

This motion creates enough lift to make it possible for bees to fly. Scientists think that this inefficient style of flying bees lets them carry heavy loads when needed. That ability comes in handy a lot for honey bees, who carry nectar and pollen from flowers back to the hive! Bees of course are the most important species of the world!


Social bees protect themselves and their colonies by stinging, but you are unlikely to be stung unless you disturb a nest or handle a female bee roughly.

Most bee stings are very mild, but can be extremely dangerous if you are allergic to bee venom.

Bee venom is most potent in summer when protein-rich pollen is freely available.

Male bees, like the male Red mason bee, ‘Osmia bicornis’, don’t have a sting!
There are also many species of stingless bees.

You may have heard the phrase ‘the bee’s knees’; the saying means an outstandingly good person or thing! Like “all this car needs is a little fine tuning to make it the bee’s knees” but did you know that bees don’t actually have knees?

Bees have a rigid exoskeleton, a hard covering that supports and protects their bodies, rather than internal bones. They don’t have kneecaps, but they do have leg joints between the femur and tibia.

Then again the work they do make them outstanding! It is estimated that around 70% of the crops we eat rely on the interplay of plant and bee and they are one of the most important species on the Earth!

Important also are those who give everything to art! Like Chris bale!

A quick sketch but do concentrate on the blog! Honey!

Shubh ratri…

Sometimes you do things only to make a show! It is done only for satisfaction! Absolutely nothing is changed but the person who demands or requests these changes feels better!

An interesting story in the book 48 laws of power tell about how once Michelangelo was showing his latest statue to a patron who was in all fairness not artistically inclined!

From afar he saw the statue and told Michelangelo that the nose was a little big! Michelangelo had a little hammer with him and his hands were dusty with the marble dust since he was working. He told the patron to come up while he made the necessary corrections.

He took the hammer and corrected the nose! Now the patron was happy with the final outcome!

So what you may ask!?

well! As the patron came close Michelangelo in fact he did nothing! He simply made an act of ‘modification’ and that’s that!

The patron simply saw the dust on Michelangelo’s hands and thought that some work was done!

All when Michelangelo did actually do nothing other than pamper the ego of a critic who had no inkling of art! Sometimes the best way to do stuff is to pretend to do it!

Once while working in a company as a medical writer, our senior whose knowledge of ‘medicine’ and ‘English’ was questionable asked me to rewrite the document with ‘his’ modifications; I simply made an act of rearranging the sentences! In fact I had changed only the first and last line of the whole document! I also remarked how ‘his’ ‘observation’ was spot on! This was because he was less qualified than me and he of course needed an ego boost! Though I did not know the law of power at that time, I at least knew the laws of corporate life! He was happy and I was spared for another day!

This is actually a very common occurrence all over the market! When you send the food to make the taste a little better or when you tell the dress to be altered just a little bit! Or when you tell the barber to trim a little bit more! By and large, the ‘modifications’ done would be so minute or in many cases none! The whole show is only to pamper your senior and his or her fragile ego!

Then once in a while you have seniors who make you be yourself! They like your honest opinion; in fact they want to listen to your opinion! They do not need an ego boost! They may not even appreciate your praise thinking it is a butter attempt! They read a lot and are knowledgeable but still are eager to learn everyday!

One such legend was Dr N K Majumder; I used to eagerly wait for his replies in our Whatsapp group since it would be full of his wide experience but his humorous take on everything was the cherry on the cake! Once while mentioning about the Cochlear Implant program and stating that there is a need for more rehab teachers he mentioned how, “Wishes can be enormous but they should have wings to fly!”

Well read and articulate with a command over language which would even make Tharoor proud! All when he was only 90 years…young!

There would be no ENT who does not know him! He will be missed but his legacy will be forever!

Heartfelt condolences to Professor Nirmalaya Kumar Majumder!

Om Shanthi…

Do you know what is Chasmology?

Now before you think, “Oh no! another boring blog! Time for me to YAWN!” well, you are close!

The book 48 laws of power by Robert Greene talks about the power of yawning! It makes your opponent calm and less aggressive! A typical yawn lasts for around 6 seconds and your heart rate significantly increases during that time!

And yes! The study of yawning is called chasmology!

It’s no surprise that People yawn more when shown a pattern of boring colors than when shown a 30-minute rock video!

Yawning usually happens in fits of two or three with increasing intensity.
A fetus starts yawning in the uterus at 12 weeks after conception. A fetus yawns around 25 times per day, and the frequency of yawning tends to decrease with age! Now now, it may not be because a typical mother has a relatively quiet and boring life!

Luckily though Humans cannot claim Yawning to be ‘human’ since it isn’t unique to humans!
Almost all vertebrate animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even fish, experience yawning. So if a radioactive fish does bite you then your super power may be; well you can yawn underwater!

There are three main hypothesis on why we yawn!

To “wake up” your brain is the idea behind the ‘arousal hypothesis’ which  states that yawning activates your brain. This theory is tied to the fact that tiredness and boredom tend to trigger yawning the most.
So, your body uses yawning to keep yourself awake. Several of your facial muscles tense and stretch during a yawn, which may also help wake you up.

Another theory is to fool…er I mean cool, you brain! The brain-cooling hypothesis suggests that brain temperature decreases with yawning due to the intake of excess air and changes in facial blood flow! Studies in both animals and humans show that yawning occurs before, during and after instances of abnormal thermoregulation, like heat stress and hyperthermia (high body temperature).

Then to bring in the fact that you need to communicate since you and me are social animals! It may be an act of communication! The communication hypothesis is based on the contagiousness of yawning. Researchers who support this theory think that yawning functions as a communication or group synchronization function. They think it might serve to signal boredom or feelings of stress to others around you.

Yawning of course is contagious but interesting is that yawns are most contagious among your closest friends. Researchers have discovered that the closer you are to someone genetically or emotionally, the more likely it is that you’ll ‘catch’ their yawn!

So the next time you see your wife or husband ‘YAWN’ you better do it! It may be that he or she has read my blog and is testing you!

If that made you smile then that reminds me of the mischevious smile of zohra sehgal!

Now stop yawning and sleep!