Income Inequality: An increasing pain in the neck
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Income in its true economic sense means the remuneration (money or value) received for providing a good or service or through investing capital, both human capital and financial. For individuals, income is received in the form of wages or salary and business income can refer to a company’s remaining revenues after paying […]
Confidence: Way of giving meaning to Life
Simrandeep Kour Confidence means having the courage to express yourself fully; no matter what the other person thinks or feels about you and therefore, not being afraid of other peoples’ judgment. One is not born confident but gains it with the passage of time. Once you acquire confidence, use it; otherwise, you will lose it. […]
Returning to ones roots
K S S Pillai Bernard Heinrich, a German scientist and author, says that home is a place we long for most when we feel we have travelled too far, for too long. He returns every year to a beloved patch of woods in his native western Maine. It is the pull of nostalgia, he says. […]
Foreign Exchange: A trading opportunity
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Foreign Exchange acronymed as Forex or FX is the marketplace where almost all the national currencies are traded. Rather being a physical market or located at a centralized location, it is a virtual electronic network of banks, brokers, institutions, and individual traders which most of the times trade through these brokers or […]
The dowry menace
Mohammad Hussain Khan The system of dowry must be as old as institution of marriage itself. It must also have been a universal practice. In a way, there is nothing wrong in giving voluntarily gifts to the girl by her parents, relatives and friends out of sheer love, concern and affection at the time of […]
Memories of the urban life
N J Ravi Chander A torrent of memories engulfed me as our childhood home in Fraser Town, Bengaluru, made way for high-rise construction. It was in the mid-1960s that my kin moved into the quaint, colonial-style ‘Monkey Top’ building with whitewashed masonry and red oxide flooring. A pair of guava trees towered over the dwelling, […]
Indian Healthcare system is dying
Shashidhar Vuppala It is time to reset and reform, the current Corona crisis provides an opportunity to address inadequacies in healthcare system, and lack of safety nets for urban poor. India’s public healthcare system needs far more investment. For any nation’s development Quality Education and Health Systems plays a significant role but unfortunately all our […]
Godmen and Men of God
Desh Bir Every land and religion has its own share of saints, but India is, perhaps the favourite home of Rishis, Seers, Munis and Saints. So much so that it was known to the outside world until some years ago as the land of levitating men of God. The idea here is not to hold […]
The surge in unemployment
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Pre- Covid-19 India was experiencing one of the worst economic phases as per the unemployment rate prevailing during that period. A report which was termed by the Government of India only a draft report was revealed by National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) which had shown a spike in the unemployment rate of […]
Muzzling the dissent
Sheikh Mohsin “I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it”, said E.B Hall. Today’s era is the era of democracy, a system fraught with significant provisions be it Fundamental rights, universal adult franchise, citizenship, separation of powers, due process of law, independent judiciary or the […]