It has started. It’s that time of the year when all that mad frenzy begins. Competition, ruthlessness, selfishness, desperation (you name it!), is in the air. It’s time for the baggy jeans, the cool t-shirts with weird and funny statements written all over them, and the whacky sneakers to disappear [...]

The fate of an infant in our country is often sealed with its first cry. Professions and jobs a child would take up some 20-25 years later are determined before it even learns to eat, poop or walk. Interests, it would pursue in the future foreseeable to guardians, are fixed. [...]

A long time ago, I heard about a lady who was running a single-room school in the slums of the Mandi town, Himachal Pradesh. Recently, I got an opportunity to catch up with this real life hero. An hour long conversation with this energetic and selfless woman became an unforgettable memory of my [...]