Did you know that the law requires all educational institutions, whether public or private, to have an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) that deals with cases of sexual harassment? And that Act also provides a strict procedure that governs the setting up and functioning of these committees? No? Well, a lot of colleges are pretending they haven’t heard either. We talked to students across India to find out how their colleges […]

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday triggered a new row when she vociferously sought national scripture status for the Bhagavad Gita. Speaking at the ‘Gita Prerna Mahotsav’, organised “to celebrate 5,151 years of religious book Gita” at the Red Fort Maidan in New Delhi, Sushma said: “Bhagavad Gita has answers to everybody’s problems and that’s why I said it while standing in the Parliament that, ‘Shrimad Bhagwad Gita’ should […]

Build up your immunity Do you know that in order to become almost immune to illnesses, you need to detoxify each and every part of your body for a healthy you. Here is how you can do that Stomach Probably one of the most important organs of the body, you can detoxify the stomach by staying away from junk food and limit your eating out to no more than twice […]

Both agony and ecstasy are part of this journey on earth called life. If not a bed of roses, what is life really all about? Each individual perceives life in his or her way. While some deal with life joyfully, some people tend to succumb to pressure and the challenges that life keeps throwing at them. This leads to stress and anxiety. Everyone can make life joyful by not letting […]

MY STORY: My Husband Left My Daughter and Me for Dowry. Today, I Have a Happy Family of 54 Rachna Khanna and her 13-year-old daughter Roohani are together changing the lives of 50 children who come to their house to study every day. Here is Rachna’s journey – from the days when her husband and his family harassed her for dowry, to today, when she a proud teacher, mother, and […]

On a sultry summer’s day, we drove down to Vellore, to see the grand Hindu religious structure called the Sri Lakshmi Narayani Golden Temple.(Vellore is infamous for it’s summer temperatures, so tourists may be cautioned against travelling here in the months from late March to June).  This temple draws hordes of tourists from all parts of the country. From the city of Bangalore, this is exactly 180 kms away, located […]

Meera Vashisht was working on a science project in her school in Texas last year when she first heard about the Indian government’s move to replace each of the 77 crore existing bulbs with powersaving light-emitting diode (LED) ones.Meera, who was born and brought up in America and is a seventh grader in Sartartia Middle School in Sugar Land, began to think hard: would it be really possible for India’s […]

There are reams written on the role a mother plays in building the personality and character of a child. However, fathers too have an equally critical — if not bigger — role to play in a child’s upbringing. This Father’s Day we bring to you a letter written by Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy to his daughter Akshata. The letter has been taken from the author Sudha Menon’s book ‘Legacy: […]

Waking up to who you are is not that hard; it just requires a little faith in free will, suggests a pair of studies. The Texas A&M University researchers found that diminishing a person’s belief in free will leads to them feeling less like their true selves. “Whether you agree that we have free will or that we are overpowered by social influence or other forms of determinism, the belief […]