Lessons that Life Teaches
In India, we celebrated Teacher’s Day, on the first day of the week, on September 5, as a mark of respect to a teacher and former president Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan...
Child Labour or Slavery: Minhaz is the Hope for Change!
A seven-year- old child, Minhaz, is thrown on the streets by his parents. He, like other homeless and destitute children, land up working as child labour. The working conditions are...
Antonyms in Life
In this poignant verse Vatsala looks at the antonyms, the binaries of life, exclusively for Different Truths. Good, bad Happy, sad Kind, mean Humble, arrogant Cruel, forgiving Selfless, selfish Respect,...
There is more to Life than Trophy Girlfriends and Dashing Dudes
If you want to belong to the hot and happening crowd, it’s necessary to have a trophy girlfriend or a dashing dude as boyfriend. It’s a fad and fashion; the...
Travails of a Lonesome Wedding Anniversary and Birth of Daughter in Primitive Settings
In all their youthful ignorance Lily and her husband decided to have their first baby in Dalhousie Cantonment. She gave birth to a daughter in a primitive setting. There was...
An Open Letter to My Grieving Mother
Motherhood is no doubt a blessing, when one feels a life moving within her and becomes the ultimate messenger to bring it to this world or when she raises a...
Hope for Street Children and Other News in Pakistan this Week
It’s often asked jocularly, ‘Good news or bad news, which do you want first?’ The traditional reply is ‘good news’. This week Urooj scans through the major news in Pakistan...
Control Pests and Insects the Nonviolent Way: Managing Bio-Diversity – IV
Respect for all life forms are central to the Hindu consciousness. There are prescribed nonviolent ways of controlling pests and insects. Further, there are customs to protect animals. Special days and...
The Teacher Whispers Within…
A tribute to the ‘Teacher’ within each of us, on the occasion of Teacher’s Day, in India, by Maya. It’s the birthday of a great teacher, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (5 September,...
Retrobrowsings: Splitzvilla Extravaganza
Neelum revisits the August 19, 1956, issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India, to bring to us some of the rare gems about the divorce codes from various parts of...