Authored by Mradul Sharma: "There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it" Astrid Lindgren(Swedish author) When I think of corporal punishment (from Latin "corpus" meaning "body"), I am ineluctably led back to the time when i used to be at the receiving end and it is not difficult to recollect the explosive resentment that I ended up stuffed with, which eventually found assorted ways (and let me say, not ... Read More

Authored by  Subramanian KS : More than a thousand unknown faces passed through the sidewalk that night - faces that meant nothing to him. He didn't look up once to see who these strangers were. Nobody paid any special attention to him either. Those who did care to glance down at his nimble figure dismissed him as merely a boy, a shabbily dressed street urchin gyrating at the edge of the busy promenade trying to earn his daily bread, on a humid ... Read More

Authored By Pranav Patel: “Rohan! Switch off the air conditioner and fan”, shouted Rohan’s mother. Rohan, a 14 year old, had just woken up and was busy brushing his teeth when his mother asked him to switch off the air conditioner and the fan in his bedroom. As he started walking towards his bedroom he heard his mom shout again. “Rohan, who do you think will turn off the tap in the washbasin? Stop wasting electricity and water, will you!” This ... Read More

Authored By A.V: I am an idiot. Now, don’t laugh. So are you guys. And so are the people who put up this site and got people like us to write articles here so that some deprived, underprivileged children get their education. Imagine the hard work a CA, an IAS officer, an IIT engineer or a MBA graduate puts in to reach what they thinks is the pinnacle of success. Imagine the monetary investment that goes behind it. But even they cannot ... Read More

Authored By Swayambhu Mukherjee: How many of us are familiar with the rapid progress made by Afghanistan’s national cricket team? There's  been an inspirational story, one that hardly finds mention in the popular media of today. In 2001, the year they formed the cricket board, Afghanistan was 90th in the world, the worst at the time. By 2010 they had made it to the World Twenty20. Their performance in the world meet was also quite commendable. What is more amazing is ... Read More

Authored by Sangeeta Rakesh Goswami: With technology taking an edge over everything and the world getting flatter day by day, we are slowly but consistently losing our cultural diversity. As universal declaration by UNESCO says "cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature." In this scenario have not you ever desired a place somewhere in the world that no country can claim as its property, where no compulsion of any facet of diversity become submissive to another, ... Read More

Authored By A.V: If like me, you were born after 1980, then probably it is something you have often heard about but seldom given serious thought to. June 25 might have been just  another day for you but not for those who have seen the India of 1970s when Indira Gandhi ruled. It was the night of June 25-26 in the year of 1975 when this daughter of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Iron Lady who played a significant role in dividing ... Read More

Authored By Harish R: “Necessity is the mother of all inventions.” This is very true for the greatest technological innovations and revolutions ever happened in the world. A prominent example that I can quote is the invention of telephone. The need for a telephone for customers on-the-go created the mobile phone. A similar connection is what I find between another two greatest creations, computers and cloud computing. Yes, you got it right, cloud computing is more or less like a computer on-the-go. ... Read More

Authored By Akhila Sachidanandam: Water covers almost 70% of the entire earth and 60% of the human body which lucidly implies its significance in our daily life. How can we possibly think of a life without water even for a day! It is thus more than just an essentiality – Its life in itself. Many of us think water is for thirst, water is to prevent dehydration and helps in easy digestion. While all of these are true, water is more ... Read More

Authored By:Subhavaaruni Rao From time immemorial man has obeyed the Laws of Nature. They have accepted to be under the rule of psychopomps and resurrection deities. The rhetorical question here is will man admit death if the future science and technology suggests the hope of reviving the dead! The concept of revival has been featured in numerous Hollywood fictions. James Cameron’s Avatar, Jake Sully –a paraplegic US marine, was cryopreserved during his travel to space. 2001:A Space Odyssey(1968),Sleeper(1973) Vanilla Sky(2001) to ... Read More