Society and Life

The significance of public speaking skills cuts across varied professional roles. Anyone would like to excel as an orator, but not everyone does. Here are the major challenges people face and the ways in which the same can be overcome.…

Rama's Homecoming - Drawing Corporate Wisdom from the Ramayana: Amidst the nationwide jubilation over Lord Rama's return to Ayodhya and the grand inauguration of the Shri Ram Mandir, a celebration unfolds—a celebration that extends…

Mother earth has never faced a challenge as she is facing it today. The unmindful exploitation of mother nature, use of toxic systems and substances and relegation of our duty towards the mother nature has landed us in a very precarious…

Introduction  The average age of the human population is rising. This has never happened in the history of humanity. Even Robert Malthus had projected that the excess of population is terrible. It puts lots of pressure on natural…

Unveiling the dialogue: In our ceaseless march toward progress, it's both perplexing and disheartening how issues affecting women often find themselves continuously debated, hoping for resolution and change. One such contentious point of…

On October 7th, 1985, an Italian cruise ship named Achille Lauro was hijacked. The ship with around 70 to 80 passengers was moving from Alexandria to the Port of Said which is the starting point of the crucial Suez Canal. When…

Conflict is one of the most primitive aspects of human civilization. Conflict is indeed inevitable because differences in ideas and opinions will always create conflict. Throughout history, there have been conflicts everywhere and we are…

Not all movie stars are created equal. If you were to trap all of Hollywood in amber and study it, you would discover a lattice of unspoken hierarchies, thwarted ambitions, and compromises dressed up as career moves. The best time…

Mrinal Sen, the original gadfly of Indian cinema would have turned 100 today. He belongs to that rare breed of parallel Bengali cinema who along with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak took Bengali cinema out of claustrophobic maudlin,…

Karl Marx sowed the seeds of the labor movement when he wrote: ‘Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor & lives the more, the more labor it sucks’. His theory of surplus value in the magnum…