Are you just shy or is it ‘Sociophobia’?
Umair Shafiq Khanday Are you afraid of attending public gatherings or feel overly conscious while meeting new people? Does the feeling of being judged affect you in everyday situations? If you have been feeling this way consistently for quite some time or if these feelings make it hard to keep up with your daily routine […]
Daughters are a bloom forever
Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit 10th October is always observed as the International Day of the Girl .Girls are change-makers. Girls are driving good and growth around the world. They are a fundamental source of transformational change for gender equality, and technology is a crucial tool to support their work, activism and leadership. Our Indian society is […]
Who fills their cup of joie de vivre?
By: Desh Bir The other day I found myself scanning the temporary stalls at the Dussehra fair of our town after a gap of nearly twenty years. Way back then, I had to visit the site almost every alternate day to meet our son’s demand for such a tour to buy Ram Lila trinkets. Yet […]
Simplicity brings peace in our lives
By: Haroon Ibn Rasheed If Allah has bestowed His grace on us, make it easy for others; be a facilitator by making lives simpler. Sultan Nasiruddin was the only good and simple-minded king of India. He was a king, but his lifestyle was very different from that of ordinary kings. He did not take a […]
Destruction caused by climate change
By: Asad Mirza The forthcoming COP27, UN climate talks due to be held in Egypt in November,may highlight the compensation system for poorer countries known as “loss and damage”, caused by the Climate Change. It is a fact, corroborated by various UN and independent reports that Climate Change over the last 25 years particularly has […]
Technical Education holds the solution
By: Vijay Garg Technical education can provide a wide range of opportunities in today’s world. It can be said that today’s technology depends on a country’s most important resource – skilled workers. A technically sound population can contribute to a country’s overall economy by being a part of manufacturing, designing, developing, and maintaining goods and […]
World Post Day: Postal Services and the Internet age
By: M Ahmad World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9th October, the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. Since then, countries across the world participate annually in […]
The world of odours
By: K S S Pillai From my childhood, odours have warned me of pleasant and unpleasant matters waiting for me. When the first rains of the season soaked the dry soil, accompanied by a series of lightning, peals of thunder and dark clouds rushing across the sky, it would emit a peculiar smell, declaring the […]
Curbing open defecation
By: Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit Open defecation is a national shame and India tops in number of people who still adhere to the practice despite several attempts by the authorities to end this menace. Open defecation in India is a grave issue and needs to be addressed on top priority. According to UN report prompting the […]
Taming your anger
By: Peer Faizan Bashir My neighbour catches sight of me talking to my friends somewhere. The neighbour reaches his home, and in no time lets my parents in on his version of secret vis-a-vis me and my friends. You know?! Your son is doing this and that. He doesn’t study. Always wasting his time with […]
