Has it ever happened to you that when you pick a pen and a paper to analyse your monthly statement at the end of the month, you realise that your expenditure far exceeded your expectations? Then you think that maybe the month had been a bit more leisurely, and you resolve to compensate for it the next month. But Alas! Is it still the same? Continue reading “Financial Literacy”
According to a recent research, the prevalence of major depressive and anxiety disorders rose by as high as 28% globally. The rate was higher for women than men.
Continue reading “Covid-19 and Mental health”What is poverty? We have all read this term in our school textbooks. But can we define it? Is it economic insufficiency to meet the basic necessities like food or does it have a broader meaning?
India has an alarming trend that sees nearly 20 women dying every day as a result of harassment over dowry- either murdered or compelled to commit suicide!
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The world today is reeling under the vagaries of the Coronavirus Pandemic (Covid-19) which has claimed more than a million lives till now and where countries have kept their fingers crossed for the development of a potential vaccine
Continue reading “Covid-19 vaccine and associated Vaccine Nationalism”Another shameful incident took place in the Indian state of Uttar-Pradesh where a young girl was assaulted brutally and gangraped. She succumbed to her injuries 2 weeks later. She was just 19!
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Today while reading through the gruesome crime of human trafficking in the world and India, in particular, I was startled to see the massive figure. And this appealed me to dig a little deeper into the matter.
Continue reading “Human trafficking and Sex workers in India”
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The lockdown is slowly being lifted up and the daily business is getting back to normal. A new normal, indeed.
Few months back going out seemed to be the scariest work one could imagine.
Continue reading “What my family has taught me”Women across the world remained unheard for time immemorial. It was largely as a result of an external domination accompanied by wilful submission. It gives me a sense of great relief to see that the situation at present
Emile Durkhein, the father of Sociology, wrote a wonderful thesis on Suicide. This becomes even more important to us today when the suicide rate globally is ever rising and despite our best efforts, we’re not able to contain it.
Durkheim has a great contribution in founding Sociology
Egalitarian Society 