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It is difficult to imagine the lives of kids who dwell on footpaths in the red-light areas of Kolkata, an eastern bustling metro city in India. Most of their mothers …

It is said that in children we find reflections of God. But in developing countries like India, millions of children do not have access to education. Leave alone education they …

‘Give a fish to a person, you feed her for a day, teach her to catch a fish, you feed her for life.’ An inspirational story of a one-woman army …

Despite decades of efforts for women empowerment and gender equality, the hard reality is that real change has been agonizingly slow for the majority of women and girls in the …

This is the inspirational story of a young lady’s successful entrepreneurial journey. Sandhya is exemplary for the kind of passion she demonstrated, for her very rational approach to entrepreneurship and …

Richa, Bindiya and Kanika – the RIBIKA girls are well educated and belong to well-established business families, entrepreneurship kind of runs in their blood. Yet when they decided to focus …

Why does one undermine the contribution of a homemaker? And why is it assumed that only a woman can be a homemaker? When new acquaintances tend to get more familiar, …

I have never written about racism as I didn’t feel I was qualified, having never experienced any form of discrimination in my life. But that is precisely why I feel …

On Friday 17 April 2020, after another 861 people with coronavirus died in UK hospitals, the UK announced another 3 weeks of lockdown. It is necessary to save lives and …

It was a Friday, the 21st of February, when for the first time Italians started to understand that Coronavirus would not be just an isolated and a distant Chinese problem …

New Delhi, the city that is in my soul and my blood, the city where it all started for me as a kid and for a lot of others, this …

Air tickets? Done…Hotel booking? Done…Sightseeing Tours? Booked…Special attractions? Disneyland, Eiffel Tower, Waterloo, Kinderdijk and Keukenhof…We ended up watching their YouTube videos from our living room sofa. Not so bad, after …

January 26th 2020 — My family and I relocated from USA to Tokyo where I had accepted a new role with a leading Japanese corporation. This is our second stint …

India has been in a lockdown for over a month now, and I have been working from home a few weeks before the lockdown came into force. The first couple …

Coronavirus  has subjected people to  unfamiliar psychological and existential pressures. Things we’ve taken for granted- easily accessible healthcare, social contact, even food- have abruptly been threatened or curtailed. This can …

The coronavirus pandemic is driving levels of disruption, change and uncertainty that are utterly unfamiliar. Few people have experienced such upheaval before. Isolation and uncertainty can erode mental health. It’s …

Scientists have always differed over the exact definition of what a pandemic is. One thing everyone agrees on, however, is that the word describes the widespread occurrence of disease, in …

Resilience is an essential life skill for all, particularly children. It is the ability to recover from difficult events. Building resilience can help children learn how to cope, find solutions …

Zeners or Generation Z – the preteens and teenagers of today are not quite the same as us when we were of their age. The zeners are living different times …

The rapid spread of the Coronavirus around the world has triggered a sense of panic among the people. Keeping cool during such times is important to effectively deal with this …