Women’s rights: West takes a backward step, India shows the way
Smriti Irani At a time of distressing furore on social media and on streets against near-total bans on abortion in the West, India’s generous stance on the termination of pregnancy is a comforting sanctum. Coupled with the moratorium on commercial surrogacy and the proposal to equalise men and women’s age at marriage, India is positioned […]
Success never comes from comfort zones
Samiya Rasool Study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are playing, and you will enjoy while others are regretting. Being a student is the best gift that one can have in his life. You have the opportunity to learn and grow in a constructive environment with like-minded people you […]
Remembering Little Bronco: Helen Keller
M Ahmad Born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama (US), Helen Keller, nick named as “Little Bronco”, was the older of two daughters of Arthur H. Keller, a farmer, newspaper editor, and Confederate Army veteran, and his second wife Katherine Adams Keller, an educated woman from Memphis. Several months before Helen’s second birthday, a […]
Technology: Bane or a boon?
Gulnoor Khan To change the world, we need combine Ancient Wisdom with new technologies. (Paulo Coelho) Today various learning methods including school, college, university, teachers and books as well as electronic means such as e-classrooms, smart classrooms, overhead projectors, computer CDs, tablet computers, laptops, etc. have become part of our education setup and contemporary teachers […]
Life’s best season
M Ahmad Childhood is the most fun and memorable time in anyone’s life. It’s the first stage of life which we enjoy in whatever way we like. Besides, this is the time that shapes up the future. The parents love and care for their children and the children to the same too. Moreover, it’s the […]
Quantitative CT: The gold standard diagnosis of spinal osteoporosis
Dr Arvind Kulkarni Osteoporosis remains the most prominent factor for onset of bone weakness and thereby causing spinal fractures and deformities with aging, it is important to ensure a healthy lifestyle at least from the age of 20 years. Even with the availability of a plethora of treatment modules, fractured vertebrae result in severe back […]
Auguring well for democracy
Lalit Garg Draupadi Murmu has been declared by the NDA as its presidential candidate for the fifteenth presidential election 2022, which shows good political skills and maturity. She is a tribal representative who will be the first tribal to reach the highest constitutional post and the second woman President of the Republic of India, which […]
The good old days
Mahfooz Ahmad Bakshi There was a time when I used to go to the ground and play from dawn till dusk. I would play cricket, football, hide-and-seek, mint/mid (local game) Gharm Ball, and so on. Ever so often I would fight with my friends over small misunderstandings and I used to say “Mea seath chay […]
Widowhood in Indian Society
Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit June 23rd marks International Widows’ Day – and the United Nations outlines just how fraught the life of a widow can be. To become a widow is to experience profound personal tragedy. For many women around the world, the devastating loss of a partner is magnified by a long-term fight for their […]
Draupadi Murmu: Nari Shakti in Rashtrapati Bhawan
Er. Prabhat Kishore History is going to be created in India when the first tribal women will be its next highest constitutional head. The contest between Draupadi Murmu of the Ruling Alliance and Yashwant Sinha of Opposition parties for the highest post of President of India is final. But the arithmetic of the Electoral College […]
