Khadija Patel
Inter Press Service
2023 year marks the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day. The UN says three decades have passed since it was proclaimed in 1993, in which “we have seen substan
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Love transcends religion, caste and other man made barriers! Much prose and an equal number of lines of poetry have sprung from the hearts of writers and lovers expressing this emotion called love! But, the gre
Whoever heard of heavy rains in April and suddenly there was a search to find my umbrellas, who I believe go on vacations between one monsoon and another. Looking for them brought back memories of their ancesto
Dr Brainerd PrinceWe concluded the last issue by saying that once we have used the technique of committed reading and read through the key texts of the critical bibliography we had put together on the thematic,-
Visedenuo Niswentso Modern College Piphema, Campus Web is a complex system of interconnected elements. And the meaning of uncertainty is the quality or state of being uncertain. If life had no uncert
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IANS Huge disruptions will rock the global job market over the next five years as the economy weakens and companies boost adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), a new report has
When America got its freedom, something that the founding fathers enshrined in their constitution was the right of every American to pursue happiness.It sounds good, but what the people found was that the pursu
D C Pathak IANS India presently is in the midst of efforts by the Narendra Modi government to reach a new high in building international relations, maintain domestic peace in the face of a planned atte
Attach their properties! shouts a shrill voice. People shake their heads as they hear these orders and many including me hearing those words or seeing the headlines think it comes from a state which uses bulldo
Rajs breakfast was burnt! and the coffee tasted like sludge. Furious, he got into his car to drive to work, and a few kilometres down the road, heard the loud sound of a bang.The old man at the puncture shop, l
The house I grew up in was an isolated one, and though it was fun to have huge fields outside and even a vineyard at the edge of those fields, for me, a youngster, not yet into his teens, the nights were scary.
Shashi Tharoor IANS Book Excerpt In an unusual instance, Ramabai had wholeheartedly participated in Ambedkar's idiosyncratic shraddha ceremony for his deceased father. Instead of offering a meal and swe
A friend of mine, a big businessman, came to me at a party, Bob, he said, Will you teach me how to speak in public?Sure! I said.I am a multi-millionaire, he said, I make the toughest deals, but when I stand in
Was rather perplexed to read this morning that more old couples were filing for divorce than ever before, But why would people in their old age move to end decades of togetherness? I wondered and walked to the
As a writer very often I face uncertain times, and have to make decisions regarding my future. Quite often Ive hesitated, but one story retold by another writer has always helped me make decisions, and not hesi
The scream came from the bedroom, Lizard? I asked casually from the sitting room and found no reply, Cockroach? I shouted again, and again hearing no answer, rushed to where the wife was, Whats wrong? I asked.L
Many years ago, just out of college, I worked in my fathers company as a salesman. Theres one lesson I learnt in sales, Ive never forgotten, and that was to never allow the customer to feel that you needed the
I'd never been one to visit the sick and always felt my wife, a doctor, did enough visiting at her hospital for both of us; but this time I had to go. He was an old man, well into his eighties and I had always
This morning I spent the better part of an hour with a friend of mine discussing whether I should take upon myself certain responsibilities: He was quite insistent that I serve on a particular board and I, know
There I was in the bathroom, sometime back with a screwdriver in my hand and a pair of pliers getting the soap tray fixed. I worked hard and as I did, I wondered how my wife had managed to get me to do it. Most
