Some of my Christian and Muslim friends say that doomsday is close at hand. Some Hindu brethren say that this Kalyug (in Hindu mythology, it is the last of the four stages the world goes through), our Karmas are leading us inexorably towards universal annihilation. I don’t know how right they are, but I am certainly disturbed by the increasing incidents of natural disasters that are occurring around us. If things continue the way they are going, we are certainly heading towards a universal disaster.