Indian Women: Joy not Depression Depression in women is a very common illness. These days, it is to such extent that being a woman in some states of India can itself be a cause of depression for many women. Women are a significant contributor to the disease with suicidal tendencies. According to World Health Organisation, depression is 50% higher for females than males. The World Mental Health Report adds that depression is two to three times more common in women (Courtesy: TOI). In India, this is becoming a silent killer of potential great citizens of the world. Dr. Parul Saxena (MD, Family Medicine) says that sometimes symptoms of a disease for which the subjects are being treated, are actually because of underlying depression only. For example, uncontrolled diabetes despite following a healthy lifestyle with timely titrated insulin dosage or sudden rise in blood pressure or some very ordinary looking dangerous problem like obesity. Dr. Priyanka Pal Mantri (MD, Dermatol...
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Nations and Powers Time never stays stagnant, it keeps on moving and things keep on changing to match with its pace. There was a time when Egyptian civilization was considered the most powerful in the world. It was the time when America and England were not even identified on the map of the world. There was a time when India was considered the richest in terms of gold and precious stones. There was a time when Spain rose to power with the decline of Barbarians there, it was also known for its art and architecture. And then, there was a time when only these three places were known to exist on this planet. The world history's most ancient civilizations lived on these lands. It is evident that History and Time both change with the game of power. It always depends on who rules. They also change with revolutions to change the social and political system from time to time. Revolutions, eventually, bring reforms and hence, play a role in shifting of power to some extent. This is a ...
What is 'Women Empowerment'? With the advent of 'women empowerment' in the Indian sub-continent, women issues are being taken seriously. By 'seriously' I mean that they are seriously talked about and debated upon. They are being accepted and rejected. We must understand that women empowerment doesn't mean 'not to rape a lonely woman on street', it doesn't mean 'letting them have time for themselves', it doesn't mean 'helping them picking up the luggage', it doesn't mean 'not to remark them on their dressing sense', it doesn't mean 'not asking for dowry in marriage'. People who come across this word for the first time often confuse women rights, women protection and gentlemanly behaviour with women empowerment. Before debating upon this topic, one must know the actual meaning of women empowerment. People had been writing books on it, which in turn are being read by other writers only! Then the questi...
Mr. Ajay Upadhyay Gandhi’s Printing Press There was an event held at Gandhi Peace Foudation, Delhi on November 30, 2015 to mark the 117 th anniversary of Gandhi’s Printing Press (November 29, 1898). The event was a knowledge sharing session and the speaker was Mr. Ajay Upadhyay, a senior journalist and editor. His analysis was based on Isabel Hofmeyr’s book – Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in slow reading. Here is a brief report: Mr. Ajay Upadhyay, a senior journalist and editor, was intrigued by the message of Mahatma Gandhi, when he started his career as a young lawyer in South Africa. His political philosophy was under evolution when out of the blue, he was taken in by an apparently unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi’s printing press is an insight into how this idea of a newspaper, India...
Just a teacher... The college in which I teach is a small pool of knowledge, where wise and intellectuals discuss in one corner and uninterested, yet pretentious ones chatter in another corner. In one teacher, I saw concern for students while another teacher showed indifference; other one seemed to have one or two favourites in each class, another teacher got worried over daily workload and one even was vengeful and knowingly didn't listen to a pursuing student, who apparently misbehaved in class. When I enter class, I see youth, energy, yet boredom. Boredom, because of monotonous class room study. I am a language teacher, but if I ever had a choice then I would teach them to write in innovative ways, like sitting alone in Mcdonald's and giving a descriptive version of each table and things happening on it. I would encourage them to be happy and self-motivated. I would assign them to talk to strangers on road and tell me about one new person they talked to, each day. I nev...
The Legend of Radha ऊँ श्री राधे Today the whole world is mesmerised with the legend of Radha and Krishna. Their eternal, divine and most pure kind of love made many a scholars wonder. Radha and Krishna were the personification of God's love when the Godhead chose to incarnate in male and female forms. Radha remained in Vrindavan while Krishna left for Mathura to achieve the purpose of that life. It is said that Krishna never returned in physical form to see Radha or to know about her. There are other hypothetical versions in which it is said that Radha met him once again after Mahabharata war was over. According to Hindu mythology, Radha and Krishna weren't separate but two manifestations of the same Godhead in male and female forms, they were one despite being away from each other. They enjoyed each other's company on a divine plain irrespective of the physical circumstances, hence, they need not be together in this physical world. Moreover, the motive of their bi...
The great Gurus and the Cycle of Knowledge
The great Gurus and the Cycle of Knowledge (By Rajul Tiwari) If it wouldn't have been the Gurus of the great Indian Legends, their life wouldn't have reached the supreme summit and they wouldn't have fulfilled the purpose of being in this life on this earth. Concept of Gurukul in Ancient India had Rajkumars (princes) and normal (knowledge seeking) young children learning under one bower (All equal). They followed discipline as the way of life and subjected themselves to harsh environment, woke up before the dawn cracked, collected twigs, flowers and fruits in dense woods, washed and cleaned utensils, cleaned the premises, went to collect bhiksha... learnt how to read and write, learnt the way of life from Vedas and did meditation several times a day. Vedas were resource of their learning like modern guides, from Mathematics to Science to Social Science to the order of Politics (Neetis and Kootneetis) to the art of War everything was taught in Gurukul. Pupils had fun di...