Vignette of a true India

Kodaikanal feasts those who love to be close to Mother Nature, than any other hill stations in South India. Maya Krishnan says that its minimal population and lacks of modernization that keeps the natural forests virgin to offer the visitors a haven ...

A Poem by PRAVEEN PARASAR Life…Name of a flying bird Flying in the open sky. It is the name of ...

Video :Mohan Lal  @ ACT It is the adulterous link among the corrupt legislative and executive, supported by the gagged media that made Kerala an incubation centre of terrorists. Maya Krishnan illustrates the graph of terrorism grown in the State from the blast at ...

When the whole world shrinks into a global village, we learned to discount our love for parents, friends and lovers confined to some special days. But for breast feeding, a divine act that a human does, we have kept aside a whole week. While the world celebrates the ...

‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ is a cliché proverb at the brim of an eviction. The Government of India is now on a pursuit to redefine some conventional rules in Education System and to create a new dictum ‘Spare the rod or end up in jail’. ...

‘Jaan’ and ‘zindagi’ are two Hindi synonyms for the single word “LIFE’ in English, The so-called honour killings now rampant in India turn down the very concept of ‘zindagi’ which badly needs ‘jaan’ to sustain. When caste-purity dominates over individuality, ‘jaan’’ is being taken out so as to ...

We do live in an era of pressures of umpteen varieties in which peer-pressure is the first one to come and make a tie-up with us.  As it affects the child hood and adolescence, the most sensitive stage of life, and as no child is immune to peer-pressure, ...

Maya Krishnan talks about ‘Mummy and Me’, a new Malayalam movie that makes the theatres of Kerala, packed in with family audience even amidst the monsoon havoc. It tells the story of longing and belonging between a mom and her daughter, as a regular episode in the present ...

Absolutely different from today’s run-of-the-mill tales of teenage rebellion, Rajashri Iyer tells a tale of a group of youngsters and their MAD drives  along the length and breadth of India, to make  at least  a minimal difference in the current turbidity that ...

Kamala Das never liked to be called as a feminist. But she spoke on behalf of the hapless womenfolk. Every woman was amazed to read Kamala’s words, as if she should have told this, if got the mote juste. ...