Affair With The knife

With media promoting extreme makeovers and their short-term ‘amazing’ results, more and more people today believe that going under the knife is safe and easy.

Traumas Tattoos and Teenage

Considerate ‘grownups’ are as rare as good politicians, and the problems of teenagers are larger than those of any nation.

Sunshine, Smiles and Flowers

A small rectangular album fell in my lap as I pulled out the dusty box resting in the innermost corner of my cupboard. This brown box labeled “Viking Dinner Set” contained possessions from my college days.

Dilemma Over Spiderman

'So what if people have died, why can’t we go watch a movie?' She demanded to know. A thousand bombs exploded within me.

Why Superwomen Have it Bad

All we ask is that when we are overburdened, beat up, harassed and looked down on that we get a bit of a helping hand. In those lovely moments of realization my metrosexual man walks into the kitchen, blazing with afternoon heat

Kati Patang

could never figure out why my mother thought that she was protecting me from some danger that lurked on the roof. Those were the best of times; it was when I was totally fearless.

Parents and the Pill

Which desi girl goes around asking her father, when she is unmarried, or even when she is married, to call in a birth control prescription?

Daughtering

I am afraid I will say things like I hate you and you killed my father to my mother if I see her again…

Baby’s Room

She got up then, and laughed out aloud, her laughter drowning out the baby’s cries. As the baby heard the alien sound of laughter from his mother’s familiar voice, his cries dwindled to a whimper.

Searching for Infantopia

Motherhood is only one aspect of the female of the species. The growing number of early childhood care and educational initiatives is one of the most obvious indications of this shift in attitude.

On Raising Kids ...

What in your opinion is the toughest job in the world?

Documentarians Hope to Enlighten Americans about Prophet

the program provides a more balanced explanation of Muhammad's prophetic message of justice and mercy

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