Fragile Childhood | Vanisha Uppal
One day during a conversation with my 12 year old daughter Vrinda, she told me that “Aannya, my friend, is just an average student of my class” “And how can you say that?” I...
Category: Sociology
No respect for beggars – Pak Paper reminds it’s Countrymen
Dawn newspaper publishes an article as a rare example of responsible and realistic journalism “There is no respect for beggars in the international community, especially when our image is portrayed as a state marred...
UN Resolutions on Kashmir are Null and Void, but has anyone told Pakistan? / Krishan Tyagi
Mirror To Mirror with Former BBC Correspondent Krishan Tyagi Pakistan never recognised that Jammu & Kashmir enjoyed a special status in the Union of India through Article 370 and Article 35A in the Constitution...
Rejoice Daughters of J&K; RIP Article 370 / Neelam Jain
Article 370 and 35A – as introduced in the Indian Constitution for granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir, were a fundamental breach of women’s fundamental rights as Indian citizens. A glorious tradition that believes in
Prasar Bharati chief rises to defend Indian Democracy against ‘blatant’ anti-India presentation at a global meet hosted by UK and Canada
As reported by Hindu, Prasar Bharati Chairman Dr. A. Surya Prakash said that Vinod K. Jose, Executive Editor of The Caravan magazine, made a “blatant” anti-India presentation during a session on ‘Religion and the...
The choice of some of the new cabinet members – a master stroke? Full list is out / Manohar Khushalani
Getting Dr. S. Jaishankar, as a member of the Indian Cabinet is a master stroke by PM Modi. He was the negotiator of the Civil Nuclear Deal with USA, which required complex negotiations. Dr....
Breaking News: Indian Cabinet 2019 – A OneVorld Scoop
OneVorld is first with a detailed and most comprehensive break up. After a sweeping victory in Indian Elections, as per information received from reliable sources, this is the likely cabinet of Prime minister elect...
The Story of celebrations of a Girl Child and an Eco-Friendly Village: Piplantari
An excellent documentation of a model village with a visionary Sarpanch who found a novel way to encourage villagers to celebrate the birth of a daughter and in the process populate the village land...
Madness as a Construct / Raj Ayyar
So often, esp. in South Asia and elsewhere, madness is seen as a stigma, a permanent condition of an unfortunate few that are not ‘normal’. ‘Madness’ as a construct, rather than a hushed-up essential...
OneVorld Vocabulary VorkOut / One
Some rarely used English terms 1. The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella. 2. The way it smells after the rain is called petrichor. 3. The plastic or metallic coating at the...