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Today, how often have we read or heard about girl children being abandoned? Even in the 21st century, female foetuses are being aborted. Babies have been thrown in the dust bin, just because they were girls. Shockingly, many girls missing from Indian homes are often found buried in some graveyard! ...

Mother is that divine entity in our life, who retains us in her womb for about 9 months, before bringing us to this world. She remains a major part of our entire existence until we learn to survive on our own. Even after that she should have a special place ...

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 ...

According to a United Nations estimate, with the emigration of computer experts from India to the US, there is a loss of 2 billion dollars a year. At the same time, when Indian students go abroad for higher studies, India again loses 10 billion dollars in foreign exchange. Given this ...

A mother, not just retains her child in her womb for 9 months, but also is responsible for its initial education. Though the loving father is mostly around to supervise its growth, she is the first one to recognize special traits in her baby. May it be friendliness or sketching ...

A doting father finds himself responsible not only for his baby, but also for the education of the child after the mother’s initiative. Charity begins at home, likewise education begins at home. So the father not only pays for the classroom education, but also inculcates the quality of responsibility in ...

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. ...