Universal need for bed time stories
Desh Bir Playing, hopping about, talking, quarrelling over toys are routine things in a child’s life. Yet there is one thing that is most sought after by children across all nations and cultural backgrounds. It is the demand for stories at bed time. These stories and their timing never fail to entice the kids in […]
Engineers: The backbone of any nation
Er. Prabhat Kishore In year 1968, Government of India declared 15th September as “Engineers Day” as a tribute to the greatest Engineer Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Vishveshvaraiya. Born on 15th September 1860, Dr. Vishveshvaraiya went to become India’s most prolific civil engineer, dam and bridge builder, economist, statesman and can be counted among the last century’s […]
Dragon is the new economic superpower
Asad Mirza At present the whole world it seems is influenced or being governed by signals emanating from the eastern world, instead of the western world, as has been the historic precedent. It seems that the Chinese dragon, which for ages had been trying to rule the world has been active quietly and is now […]
Never let the Child in you Die
Rajan Kapoor Age is a mere number. A numerical figure, not more than that. Yes, limbs and bones go brittle as the number climbs up. Wrinkles sport face, hands shiver and legs tremble. In brief, body turns into an island of physical ailments. The condition takes a turn for the worst if the mental health […]
Sonia delivered a blow to Congress in promoting her son’s failed lieutenants
D K Singh On one of my usual story-fishing expeditions several years ago, I was intrigued to see an influential Maharashtra legislator engaging a 10 Janpath peon in a long conversation in the lawns of the Congress headquarters. As I approached them, Kanhaiyalal Gidwani wound up his conversation, giving the peon his three mobile numbers, […]
Why some families fail?
Syed Tajamul Hussain Too much exhausted and frustrated after watching the spike in positive cases and higher mortality rate due to pandemic, a man in a family with his doleful eyes yearned for freedom from the dangerous trap of Covid-19. His thoughts too beg for a dream in which he will sail within the river […]
Salons are a school in itself
Miraj Chauhan
The relentless noise of scissors at work and a bedlam of people practicing multi-lingualism is a familiar scene at traditional salons. Salons which are often mispronounced and wrongly spelt as ‘saloons’ in small towns bears a testimony to the inacquaintance of the dwellers with the foreign language. Both the words are distantly connected to each […]
Dangerous media trials
Amit Singh Kushwaha
The suicide case of famous Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput is now converted into a media event by television news channels. Every day, 24X7 channels telecast the updates and organize TV debates on this matter. Without any judicial trial and decision, these channels have declared Rhea Chakraborty and her family as a convict. This is […]
Mortar and Pestle
K S S Pillai
Human resource in peril…..but do we care?
Syed Tajamul Islam Surprisingly, the life we breathe is too much overloaded with the gifts of revolutionised technology and wonders of science, to prepare us modernised contended and parallel to the figure of 21st century world. From silicon chips to NASA spaceships, our modern life is altogether different and matchless with those inscribed on the […]