Injuries and deaths due to beatings at school, suicides committed by students when they receive punishment at the hands of their teachers – these news have lost their shock value, they seem to occur every other day. A recent case was that of Rouvanjit Rawla of the prestigious La Martiniere School in Kolkata, [...]
Family honour or Child’s Happiness?
June 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Reading reports of honour killings in the papers, I can’t help wondering if we are living in the medieval ages. Killing your own children for the supposed dishonour brought upon the family by marrying outside the caste is not just despicable, it is downright barbaric. If these shameful acts were performed by illiterate [...]
Anguish of a Girl Child
May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Ashtaputravathi Bhava” (May you be blessed with 8 sons) is an old Hindu ‘blessing’. What does this kind of sexist benediction or rather a curse, mean for a little girl in India? In many Indian villages, the girl child is not wanted at all. They would rather she not live and female infanticide [...]
Values : The best legacy for your child
May 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A child is the apple of a parent’s eye. For the parent, nothing is good enough for the child. He must have the best clothes, the best education, the best of everything. In the process of providing all this, the child gets pampered. And if both parents go out to work, there will be [...]
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