Articles [Social Life]

Senior citizens are now a largely neglected lot.  Most of them live, not as a matter of choice, but as a matter of compulsion, in some old age home or the other, where they manage to find new relationships with people of their own age....

What is our role in making others happy?  What can we do to make everyone around us, happy to the extent possible? These are some very basic questions, and it is quite easy to find out answers to them, based on our life experiences.  We...

'Should I' or 'Not', the self assessing question, an ,argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him which he chooses. This is a dictionary framed definition of dilemma, I just call it the...

It is becoming increasingly clear that the poor and the marginalized are suffering the most.  There is indeed an economy of the poor, that helps them access goods and services at economic rates, and in installments too.  However, all this...

Certain things are uniquely Indian: gossip is one of them.  As Indians, we are highly sensitive when we gossip.  We are very happy to indulge in any sort of gossip, and this goes on even in the best of urban centers like Mumbai, in...

We have had hundreds of movies where the hero goes around singing songs and trying to impress the heroine as if he had no other job to do.  The hero would be unemployed, and would be eating out of his father's precious income, but he would...

Indiscipline in colleges happens due to several reasons.  One of the most common reasons is jealousy of some jilted lover, over a real or imaginary love affair, where the girl is seen friendly with any other male, or is committed to some other...

In just under twenty years, churidar, a very common dress worn by most Indian women has simply taken the entire South India by storm.  No woman, young or old, or middle-aged, can escape this dress  -- sari sales is coming down day after...

From time immemorial, India has been an ancient land of philosophers.  It has been a land that has nurtured philosophy in no small way.  It has also been a land that has always taught people to have a very high degree of tolerance....

Being spiritual or becoming spiritual is a way of life in India.  We have thousands of temples and thousands of festivals.  We have so many languages and there are mantras in just about any language. There are religious practices that...