Samarth

If we look back in our memory of the journey of life, no matter how old we are - one major and distinctive area of our recollection includes a time in school and college. This is the period of education that a lot of us have gone through but I daresay this is the case for everybody in India...

Being a youngster and attending parties always gets one question hurled at me more often than I had imagined: ‘Do you smoke?’ and if I happen to be in a metropolitan city of India, my answer is always ‘Yes, but unwillingly’. We read hundreds of air quality reports, get enraged about delayed flights due to lack of visibility, see foreign...

Ask the greatest polymaths and geniuses of our time about their mantras for success and you will get one resounding answer – constant learning. And learning isn’t what happens in schools or colleges where students with heterogeneous qualities are adjudged on homogenous test skills. That is more a test of memory than knowledge. In this age of a barrage...

In a country with prevalent moral policing standards and ‘what’ll the neighbours say’ attitude, it is not uncommon to still have a debate on personal freedom and pro-choice liberalism being in effect. This is the cognitive dissonance our nation collectively goes through. But are we moving towards a better India in an aspect as basic as who we love...