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By पूनम पांडे

महिला अधिकारों की जब बात उठती है तो महिलाएं क्या मांगती हैं? जाहिर है बराबरी का अधिकार। लेकिन अगर बराबरी की मांग करते-करते कोई खुद शोषणकारी की तरह बर्ताव करने लगे तो…. कम से कम कुछ मामलों में तो यही हो रहा है। इसमें कोई दो राय नहीं है [...]

What about the evil bahu?

A group of victimised mothers-in-law from Bangalore have started their own helpline, and plan to approach TV producers and film-makers to get them to re-work the ‘unfair’ portrayal of the saas figure in popular culture

Mumbai: For years they’ve been haunting television and movie screens, making life miserable for their daughters-in-law [...]

Don’t Change the World

Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. One day, he went for a trip to some distant areas of his country.

When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet were very painful, because it was the first time that he went for [...]

Would you slap your Dad?

People form judgments through flash intuitions, not after a deliberative process

If you want to tell whether someone is conservative or liberal, what are a couple of completely nonpolitical questions that will give a good clue?

How’s this: Would you be willing to slap your father in the face, with his [...]

What Makes Us Happy?

by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. [...]

Bitter truth about print media will harm society

As the quality of news suffers, it has its impact on the whole society and system. In short, ‘trust destruction’ triggers a major crisis. The truth about the local newspaper and the misuse of print media, is huge disappointment for an eager reader.

THE IMPACT of ’trust destruction’ by the economic powers will be [...]

My Uncle Jules

by Guy de Maupassant

A white-haired old man begged us for alms. My companion, Joseph Davranche, gave him five francs. Noticing my surprised look, he said:

“That poor unfortunate reminds me of a story which I shall tell you, the memory of which continually pursues me. Here it is:

“My [...]

India couple's kiss 'not obscene'

A court in India has dismissed criminal proceedings against a married couple charged with obscenity for allegedly kissing in public in the capital.

The Delhi high court judge wondered how an "expression of love by a young married couple" could attract an obscenity charge.

Police arrested the couple – a 28-year-old man [...]

Put yourself before family

A lot of financial pressure comes with being the first person in your family to go to college or get a career-track job. Not all of it is good.

First-generation successes can be the target of family demands to help out parents, siblings, or other relatives.

There’s an apt metaphor for folks in this [...]

Life is beautiful

Life is tough. It is demanding. It is cruel. Once you accept this reality, everything seems so easy. In a world pregnant with question marks, it is easy to fall prey to the temptation of becoming a pessimist. It is easy to see a problem everywhere. But, it takes a creative mind to figure [...]

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