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Remember your younger days when you carried a heavy weight bag to school? Many would be surprised to know that that weight has been steadily reducing for the current generation. Efforts have been taken by the principals, teachers and parents to reduce the physical burden of the children, while going ...

Trust is a sad word. How many people have fallen into a trap after trusting even someone close, let alone strangers? There have been many incidents of people being cheated by near and dear ones. But then people never learn from their own experience or from that of the others. ...

There are times in our lives, when we get angry with someone close to us. There is a period of resentment, but eventually you calm down and think properly. Then you realize that hating someone was not right on your part. That is the time when you decide to forgive ...

Men will be men! Most men accept women friends and colleagues as equals and respect them for what they do. But when it comes to their wife they want her to take the major responsibility of the household even if she is in a good job. All in all she ...

“2 years back I had been to the Tirumala temple and my parents and I had taken a vow to perform the Kalyanautsavam there. Now I am not married. I have hypothyroid problem and due to my obesity I look older than I am. Is that my fault? Because I ...

Singer Shibani Kashyap was in J W Marriot, when the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks happened attending the launch of Bikram hot yoga spa. During the event there was a sudden panic among people there and everyone seemed to just run out of the hotel as if they were escaping from something! ...

Medical tourism is increasing in India due to less charges and innovative technology. People from even advanced countries like UK come here for treatment. At the same time, the poor from our country do not get proper treatment. I have been looking for answers to these questions for more than ...

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 ...

By Soniya Khan We are living in the twenty first century. But still some of our thoughts belong to the past. Brain is only part of our body which keeps on working 24/7 without any pause, without any break. Sometimes the parts from which the brain derives the main power ...

Power has an effect on people other than those in power as well. It makes them play games to please the person wielding the power. Admiration and worship becomes sycophancy and people start worshipping their very human idols. India has many fan clubs for cinema personalities. Reverence goes to such ...