A computer games developer in the US, Britton La Roche, while theorising in order to build a games simulator has managed to cause panic by predicting a Tsunami on July 22, 2009. Nirmal Shah comments on how the media and the internet community have reacted as if this was a scientific fact and have managed to stir panic throughout Asia and the Indian Ocean region.

Fighting tears in his eyes, Nirmal remembers another scion of Seychelles conservation Lyall Watson a science writer, conservationist and polymath who passed on, recently.

Food, Oil and the Environment are issues that are very much intertwined, here Nirmal shares some hard facts.....

Arthur C Clarke influenced generations of people all over the world with his sci-fi writings. Nirmal is one of them...and he has some fond memories and some tears....