Rachna says

Why is language such an issue: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3633970

There is this Kellogg’s cereal ad which airs on TV. The gist of the ad is that they promise some weight loss after having 2 bowls of Kellogg’s per day for 2 weeks which they call a challenge( Sure, the way Kellogg’s is priced, the worry itself of consuming so…

A friend of mine who had her birthday had the scare of her life yesterday. She was going to pick son up from school when on a bad patch on the road, a taxi tried to go close to her, she went ahead and moved on. For some reason this…

Further to my previous post and my meeting with the Principal, Siddharth fell sick and did not attend school for the last week. He resumed this Monday and still has a cough and cold, albeit subsiding. I wrote an email to the Principal yesterday and there was prompt action today.…

My son had a very strange experience and his first taste of discrimination in school day before yesterday. He came home and told me that some boys had beaten him in school. I thought it must be one of the tiffs that children normally get into. He was in tears…

Every year, we totter on the brink of power crisis in this country. We start looking to the heavens to open up and fill our reservoirs to ensure a good power and water supply to its citizens. The rain Gods have not been relenting this far and look at the…

I was thinking that now that Gautam has begun school, I’d have much more time on my hands. Surprisingly, that is not so! I have to wake up latest by 6 everyday. I have 3 tiffins to pack for my three boys ;). Gurdev can eat in his office canteen…

Nandan Nilekani – the co-founder of one of the biggest Indian IT companies Infosys has resigned from the company to take up a rank of a cabinet minister in the government. He is heading the UIC (Unique Identification Card) scheme. This is meant to provide a National foolproof biometric Identity…

Since the controversy of ill treatment of Indian students in Australia has broken out, one argument which has been heard in many forums is how India as a country is very racist to its own people and the two ugliest dimensions of it manifest as the caste system and stereotyping…

Today is the 100th Anniversary of Father’s Day and though I feel that most of these days are just commercial gimmicks meant to boost the sales of the greeting card companies, I like this one. I think fathers are very special. They are not as overt in showing their love…