Though a South Indian, having studied Genetics in college, I have always cringed at the thought of marrying a relative because for me it amounts to incest. Yes, in South India the practice is much prevalent. Cousins marry each other and marriages often happen between the girl and her maternal ...

Gestures can mean a world of things. Often they speak dirty language. But that is adult language. When a seventh grader’s gestures take on a dirty meaning? What happens? This incident also happened in the Kandivali school I was teaching in. I was made the class teacher of this 7th ...

Ingredients: Broken rice – 1 cup. Mustard – ¼ teaspoon. Zeera (cumin) – ½ teaspoon. Methidana (fenugreek) – 1 teaspoon. Green chillis – 3-4 inches long – 3. Or Red chillis – 2 inches long – 3. Grated ginger – 1 teaspoon. Butter milk – 3-4 cups. Curry leaves – ...

This incident happened when I had just joined a school in Kandivali, Mumbai. It was the beginning of the academic year and the 10th std. students just had their prelims exams. The principal requested all the new teachers to help with the correction of the papers and we chipped in. ...

Rahul Seth started his career in Mumbai dubbing for ads, animation films and Hollywood movies. Then he slowly made his mark in Bollywood. Giving music for some songs of Yamla Pagla Deewana catapulted him to fame. In this exclusive interview, he told us about his present Bollywood assignments and other ...

I am not a regular viewer of TV serials. But criminal investigation interests me. Recently I was watching Crime Patrol on Sony TV. In that given episode, they showed a small school boy drinking phenyl in the bathroom to escape his violent father. I was shocked and started wondering, what ...

Often it is seen that children tend to scratch their private parts in front of outsiders – within home and outside because these parts have not been cleaned properly. The situation becomes awkward for their parents. If cleanliness is not taught to the children, the behaviour continues to adulthood making ...

Ambulances have become such a part and parcel of hospitals and medical care that they are many times taken for granted. I remember one incident. When I was a teacher, we were taken to a stadium in South Mumbai for a Sports event. One girl fell unconscious. All efforts by ...

We have heard of child abuse time and again. Another problem concerning abuses and children has arisen, i.e. kids abusing others. This is an issue that needs to be taken notice of and rectified. Kids using abusive language mostly happen in the areas where the lower class resides. But this ...