A work-life balance has long been established as an ideal living. It has in fact been regarded as the panacea for stress and an impetus to the feeling of Individual well-being. However, one segment that this mantra eludes is the Uniform Services. By design these...
The spirits soar as one hears of a success in a hard-fought legal battle that secures women a permanent commission in the Indian Army. The sore point is that it had to be a hard-fought battle. Be it the back-to-back feat of our ‘women in...
Millennials” is a term used to refer to the cohort of people who were born between 1981 and 2004. These “Millennials” are babies of the Economic Boom. Hence, they have been a witness to the seminal shift in economic and social order that marked the...
It’s an oxymoron, to say the least, that this potent force called vernaculars, that begot the linguistically organised Bharat, are today haplessly pleading to be protected. And, for the States, protecting their progenitor has never before been a Gordian’s knot, as it is today. It...
The world was termed a “Global Village” as early as in the 1960s, when Marshall McLuhan coined the concept. The idea underlying it was a shrunken world wrought by a gastronomic rise in transport and communication facilities. Its effects, however, are most pronounced today. The...
Very recently, I was prodded by a friend to write on “good feminism”. A déjà vu experience engulfed me. It sounded like one of those “good feminism” sessions that was being taught by the boys of the college when they sized-up the girls on various...
The fortnight that has just passed witnessed incidents that have shaken the collective conscience of the nation. One of them, which did not garner much attention, but was equally heart-wrenching, was the news report of six children of a family in Kerala whose hunger compelled...
It’s an oxymoron, to say the least that this potent force called vernaculars that begot the linguistically organised Bharat, are today haplessly pleading to be protected. And, for the States, protecting their progenitor has never before been a Gordian’s knot, as it is today. It...
History is a witness. It was a raised voice that led to what we today know as the Renaissance and Reformation. The two magical movements and revolutions took Europe from the obscurity of a corrupt ecclesiasty to a new modern and awakened continent. The voices...
19th century. More than half the landmass on earth was submerged under European colonisation. These nations, or apt to say, ‘nations in the making,’ have shared similar or, at least, relatable stories of their struggle — from unshackling the colonial power, to tracing the path...
