Monday, May 20, 2024
  Defying community diktat, Nirmala Meghani continued to sing against all the odds. Banking on access to social media, the upcoming sufi cum classical singer reached out to music lovers within Pakistan and India and earned...
  The other day, I came across a message on WhatsApp that reflects how dependent we have become on technology and its long term implications. Felt like sharing with the readers of Alt Lipi. Here it goes…...
April Fool news
The good thing about imagination is that we own it and can mould it as per our whims and fancies. That we can let it fly in any frivolous direction makes us human beings. April...
A woman and a farmer! The invisible workforce to the fore
Driven by the spirit of naari shakti, 200 farm women pitch for their rights near to the Parliament House in Delhi. They were in all 200 of them sitting under the overcast sky on one of...
  Those opposed to non-vegetarianism blissfully remain ignorant about the food chain, which is God's (read nature if you are an atheist) scheme to maintain ecological balance. Quite often the issue becomes a hot topic of...
  As there has been a steady increase in love marriages these days, so is their failure rate. But what is disappointing is that only girls pay a heavy price as they have to carry the...
  April 1919 was the cruellest month in the history of Punjab. Instead of ushering in the season of mellow fruitfulness and harvest festivities, it brought in a whirlwind of another kind. Instead of collecting the...
  We generally overlook the personal and family life of a professional while judging his/her calibre. However, skeletons of even successful people in our midst keep spilling into public domain every now and then due to...
  In India, it is almost a given. While political parties in power, at the Centre or in states, dole out freebies to the public, especially during election season to remain in power, those in the...
The emotional aspect of vaccination we missed all along
  We thought we would be able to resolve the covid crisis once and for all with a vaccine against the dreaded infection at our disposal. The question uppermost in our mind was when the vaccine...