Before reading this, I am sure that very few of you knew that yesterday was the New Year day according to the Vikram Samvat, you would have not even known that it is New Year 2065 in our own country. What has happened to us? All the things that have an element of nationality in them are in a dire state…

A number of middle class localities in major cities have slums in surrounding areas. Most of the menial tasks in such localities are performed by slum dwellers…

Religion has marked some never ending boundaries which can never be crossed. Every morning, I see my grandfather doing his religious prayers (he is a Sikh). One day out of curiosity, I picked up his prayer book. To my surprise…

Among the many horrible crimes committed in situations of armed conflict, one that leaves an indelible mark on the future is violence and abuse against children, particularly girls, in armed conflict. It is not enough to make statements or to enact new international legal norms…

Reservation in Indian law is a form of affirmative action whereby a percentage of seats are reserved in the Parliament of India, state legislative assemblies, central and state civil services, public sector units, central and state government departments and in all public and private educational institutions…

The drop out rate in schools is not only a crucial indicator of the faults in our education system, but also the slippery eel of the literary statistics…

Some children show slow progress. Instead of bearing a defeatist attitude and failing the child by remaining oblivious to his step by step progress, the parents only kill their child. Marks as benchmark of success and intelligence is something, we all need to get out of…

Every once in a while, there come up cases like the Jessica Lal murder case and currently, the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case where the victims get vindicated. But then, we tend to overlook, in the light of such victories, the time period taken by these guardians of justice. Is it worth the delay?…

This World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, (March 24) brought to us another opportunity to review TB responses. Drug susceptible TB is treatable, curable and, with proper program interventions, it is possible to believe in the theme of World TB Day: ‘I can stop TB’. However, can we say the same for drug-resistant TB?…

Typing the word pornography in a normal search engine does not lead to results which can be classified as distasteful, possibly because of the formal usage of the word. However, typing the colloquial usage of the term, ie, ‘porn’, leads to results that are shocking, yet something, which is accepted…