Issue of the week

Sexual harassment is such a heinous act, which affects the victim mentally. Due to our justice system, the perpetrator tends to go scot-free. Besides, they keep playing a blame-game, so that new victims are silenced at the beginning itself, if ever the incidents come out in the open. The victims ...

Recently, a boy was recovering from a fractured leg. The parents, fed up of his mischief at home, had brought him to school in their car, when the plaster was still there. The boy was walking with crutches. That day, the teacher saw this boy kick a classmate with the ...

Picture this scenario. A ward boy/sweeper performs a surgical procedure on a patient with the medical chief of a government hospital watching it. Later he supports his conduct, in the media. The medical profession is getting highly commercialized what with the doctors prescribing expensive diagnostic modalities and receiving a major ...

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 ...