The elements of love, empathy, compassion, selflessness, sacrifice and attachment which once decided and defined the contours of our relationships have all been left behind and the perspective of consumerism and opportunism has invaded the landscape of our relationships
Parents have the most important role to ensure their children are not meted out with any abuse. They have to be vigilant. They do not have to ensure the safety of children only at schools and other places outside the home.
What is wrong if Mullahs remind us of divine laws and the consequences of the violations thereof, the laws and regulations which are enshrined in the scripture itself? And divine wrath is not what people usually make out of it.
The state of affairs in education as it reflects in unequal access to people from different backgrounds turns antithetical to the very enterprise and exercise of education and the manner in which it furthers the existing inequalities is tragic and inhuman.
Even after taking elders along when going out and elders seen with sticks and stones in their hands, the miseries and inconveniences inflicted by dogs upon the populace seem only snowballing and gaining in degree and depth with each passing day
Superficiality will not work here and if we want to understand the Man-wild dynamics in all its colour and complexity, the pervasive material culture, non-terminating human greed and identification of self with “explorer” and “exploiter” of nature rather its “guardian” and “custodian” cannot be discounted
Having underscored the disequilibrium in doctor patient ratio, it becomes incumbent upon the government, as a part of its commitment to be a welfare state to expand the bandwidth of healthcare infrastructure in terms of multiplying hospitals, recruiting healthcare workers and aiming to provide essential medicines at affordable rates.
There is no dearth of incidents nearer home or elsewhere to demonstrate the challenges women have to face while they live in a society. These things do not apply to boys or men.
The respect we accord to our religious scholars derives its legitimacy from the fact that they inform and explicate for us the word of God, but they shouldn’t take this occasion as an opportunity to interject themselves between man and God and on occasions “Play God”
Domestic and marital violence is characterised as the problem of the present era so much, as though women were enjoying the heavenly bliss in marital life in ancient days. We tend to forget that much of the domestic and marital violence committed against women stays lost in history and was rarely documented.
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