Thursday, December 5, 2024
  India is home to brilliant scientists, doctors, engineers, philosophers, and writers. But, the country is also home to scores of rote learners. These students memorise by heart the concepts they are taught, rather than understanding...
  Since treatment in private hospitals  has  always been an unaffordable proposition for poorer sections  of  the society,  they  could at  least  bank on  public  health system.  However, with prices of   medicines skyrocketing, that option too...
Time to accept LGBTQA and facilitate its joining of the national mainstream
The first thing that comes to mind when we hear the phrase “Gay Pride” as millennials and Gen-Z is streets filled with people throwing glittering confetti holding aloft flags and banners representing their respective sexual...
  Ten days have passed since the world's largest Covid vaccination drive kicked off in India to curb further spread of the deadly infectious disease. The programme aims to develop antibodies in countrymen by administering two...
No more lal batti culture, time to rein in on haughty babus
  Every now and then, one gets to read and hear about the erratic, arrogant and at times aggressive behaviour of the civil servants who abuse the power vested in them by the constitution with impunity,...
‘Baap pe jana nahi’....Discourse amid Congress, BJP goes down to Mariana Trench A seed of gross indecency was sown long ago in the heart of the dense jungle of politics. But, the fruit of that fully-grown...
PM Modi taking Covid vaccine shot
  Visuals of Narendra Modi taking the first shot of Covid vaccine – Covaxin – at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi went viral on social media. The Prime Minister took the initiative in...
Interfaith bonhomie with Covid playing cupid in its own way
  At a time when social distancing to ward off the deadly coronavirus has become a norm, the two major religious groups in the country, Hindu and Muslim, have a reason to come closer to each....
I can call myself Generation X. Probably the generation that has seen most of the changes. The life has changed quite substantially. In fact, everything changed. Those days, there used to be no internet and...
  "Most of the subjects taught at the college do not have relevance outside the classroom. After studying hard memorising text of hundreds of pages as the students find the education they have attained would not...