The Old Book Shop!
Prof Rajan Kapoor While taking a ride on my bike in my home town, I sped past the old book shop outside Hall gate, Amritsar. Past memories, immediately, flashed through my mind; I applied brakes and parked my bike in front of the shop. I, then, walked down to the shop to capture the throwback […]
Child Labor: Covid-19 and earlier statistics
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Child labor is work carried out by children that harms them or exploits them physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking their access to education. There is no universally accepted definition of child labor. Varying definitions of the term are used by international organizations, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other interest groups. There […]
The curse called Covid-19
K S S Pillai Being older than 65 years has become a curse, thanks to a virus born in a faraway land. The government has been asking me to remain at home, and venture out only if there is a medical emergency. The concrete benches in our housing society remain unoccupied. I am told that […]
A respite needed
Syed Mustafa Ahmad We are proving to be one of the most ill-fated communities in the world. Destruction doesn’t leave us. It has become our habit. Some time before, we used to have shutdowns on a large scale, though shutdowns still exist but thanks to Allah that with the advent of new word “lockdown”, the […]
Turning routine shopping into a glee
N J Ravi Chander My romance with the Shivajinagar market in Bengaluru began in the mid-1960s when I was a tiny tot, and it remains one of my favourite haunts. The bustling shoppers’ paradise in the heart of the cantonment is a colonial-era hangout where people flock to stock up on home needs. I recall […]
International student mobility for UG courses high among Indians
Ankit Kapoor While education remains a vital part of any individual’s life span, that not only assists in providing a threshold to a flourishing career but also broadens the horizon to give a positive outlook to their personality. Analyzing the estimated students for undergraduate programs, around 9 crore in senior secondary level and nearly 3.5 […]
Rural areas also need solid waste management plans
Mudasir Nazir Wani The human population is growing fast continuously, and now we are more than 7 billion people in the world. In addition, the global welfare has witnessed improvement in the last decades, which resulted in producing more from our resources and producing more wastes in the world. Waste management in urban areas has […]
Social evils do no good
Syed Mustafa Ahmad
There are many evils prevalent in our society. Some of them are attached with it since time immemorial. But some have recently been acquired by our society. The evils prevalent in our society are: dowry, drug addiction, domestic violence, female foeticide, female infanticide, illegal abortions, corruption, gender inequality, racism, human trafficking, casteism, poverty, food adulteration, […]
Renal Complications witness rise amid COVID-19
Dr Sudeep Singh Sachdev Hitting the Nation as well as globally, the COVID pandemic continues to be a growing health crisis day-by-day. With over six months of the crisis, the geriatric population has been recorded to be affected the most and the age factor poses an extreme threat to mortality and rate of infection. Even […]
Dribbling to success
N J Ravi Chander During the school summer vacations back in the 1970s my younger sibling N J Prasanna Kumar and I frequented an old, monkey-top house on Standage Road, Fraser Town, Bengaluru, just behind the street where we lived. Two families, including hockey Olympian Rajgopal, resided here. The house had a solid wooden door […]
