Good Samaritans

Gone are the times when television only broadcasted soaps, movies and other entertainments. Satyameva Jayate indeed is an amazing initiative by the Bollywood star Amir Khan along with star network and Doordarshan’s  DD. This show which was premiered in 2012, with Amir Khan’s first television debut, mainly focuses on happening …

  “A good Samaritan” is the one who is helpful and also charitable. One is considered to be a Samaritan when they help people in their illness with no regard for the other’s culture, race, religion, place and behaviour. An article of mere six hundred words can hardly define what a …

Just 5 days after the entire world celebrated New Year’s eve, an incident occured In the Hangu District of Pakistan, a boy of mere 14 or 15 years of age, lost his life. And no, it wasn’t a death someone undergoes in a hospital trying to fight some sickness or …

He had a mobile phone in one hand and biscuits in another. A young boy he seemed. “Phone at such a young age?” Raj interrogated “I don’t know, ask him” I pointed out. We were sitting outside a popular bakery at Hyderabad. Between our conversations we overheard the kid talking …

Notebook? Check. Couple of Pens without their Caps? Check. Messy hair? Check. And here it is in sight. I let out an exasperated sigh. ‘Welcome to the World of Torture’, the sign seemed to read. ‘Let’s get this over with’, I reasoned as I stepped into the college, for the …

Superheroes come in various sizes and shapes. One doesn’t have to be able to fly at jet speeds or jump across towers by synthesizing webs from finger tips or cause earthquakes with a single fist bump to the ground to be a superhero. Anyone who makes a difference to other’s …

The greatest philanthropist of the time, Bill Gates, always lays emphasis on the individual soul existing on earth. He believes that all lives have equal value no matter where they are being lived. If each and every one of us starts believing in this very ideology, the whole idea of …

What is the punishment for stealing- penalty, imprisonment  or death? When the big guns in India, doing thefts of thousands of crores, get away scot free, then why some people are brutally punished for trivial crimes and even for no crimes at all. 198 tribes in India are still popularly …

Mee Vanvasi. Child Labour, helplessness and poverty. Viscous circle indeed? Let’s give it another thought. We all have proper, exorbitant food every day, cosy bed to sleep and education and everything. What use do we make of it? We try, yes. Still, everywhere every time we are trying to achieve …

<p>The number of slum dwellers in our country is alarming. Rural migration to urban cities is one of the major reasons for this unacceptable growth. The hopes and dreams of these rural immigrants are crushed ruthlessly and they realise that their expectations for a greater life are reduced to nothing …