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 […]
Economics of Harley-Davidson’s exit from India
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Harley-Davidson, Inc., H-D, or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers that survived the Great Depression in 1930s.The company survived numerous ownership arrangements, subsidiary arrangements, periods of poor economic health and product quality and intense global competition to […]
Revenge Porn: A new means to harass people
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Most of the people particularly here in our state are not aware literally about this term, but when defined, they know it exists in our society but are shy to talk about it. Let me define this term for you. Revenge Porn refers to the sharing of explicit or sexual, images or […]
Dreaming for a peaceful world
Syed Mustafa Ahmad The concept of peace has the distinction of always having been relevant, whatever the age. It is inseparably entwined with the issue of human existence. Peace basically means harmony. It not only is among nature’s creations but between nature and man as well. With the passage of time, the concept of peace […]
The ‘positives’ of the pandemic
N J Ravi Chander When the pandemic forced us indoors, I embarked on a new pastime – bird watching. My balcony overlooks an African Tulip tree that serves as a haven for a host of avian creatures and squirrels. The deciduous tree which resembled a skeleton after shedding its leaves in summer now sports a […]
Abandoned to the mercy of elements
Desh Bir Be it Corona or SARS or NIPAH or droughts or floods, the average Indian is at the mercy of the elements and not of fellow human beings, much less the supposed Patrons of society who are expected to stand by the less fortunate ones in moments of need. Come Corona and the employers […]
Another shameful incident of rape
Fahid Fayaz Darangay The incident that forced me to write on this sensitive social issue was the recent Hathras rape case where a 19 year old dalit girl was brutally gang raped and her family was not given the right to perform her last rites after she succumbed to injuries in a Delhi hospital. I […]