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Grey issues
Thanks to the advancement in the fields of science, technology and health services, the average lifespan of a human beings has gone up substantially, increasing number of elderly in the world. In the west, the elderly population in the 1990s was 7-15% of the total population, and is expected to reach 25% by the year 2020. According to an NGO HelpAge, life expectancy in India has gone up from 20 years in the beginning of the 20th century to …
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Thank you teacher!
On September 5, every year, we honour the most important people in our lives after our parents- our teachers. We learn many important lessons from teachers – both academic and non-academic – guiding us whenever we stumble in the walk of life. All of us have a few teachers we remember fondly – these are the ones who are etched in our memories forever as torchbearers. This year, on the occasion of Teacher’s Day, I am reminded of one of …
A Unique Bond
In wake of terrorism’s spread across the globe, love is our only hope. Love is the only antidote to acts of hatred. St Francis, in his famous prayer, entreats God: "Where there is hatred, let me sow love." Last week, over two hundred students from Thane sowed the seeds of love when they celebrated Rakshabandhan in a unique way. Ninety boys and girls in need of special care bonded with more than 150 students from 12 different regular schools …
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Boosting confidence
Choosing our careers is perhaps the toughest decision we have to make during our lives. The problem is we have to make this critical choice at a time when we are hardly equipped to do so. According to statistics, less than 20 per cent of us know what we would like to do with our careers by the age of 16. The rest of us land up making choices that are not necessarily right for us, leading to so many …
Gee! You are You
The contribution of teachers is perhaps greater than the contribution of anyone else. Indians have acknowledged this for ages and that’s why we celebrate Gurupournima, also known as Vyasa Poornima. The term guru means ‘dispeller of darkness’. The original Vedic texts were monolithic in nature and it was almost impossible for any individual to study them in a single lifetime. To make the wisdom of the Vedas more accessible, the great sage Vyasa, who is considered to be an incarnation …
Girl Power
All children are vulnerable. But street children or urchins are much more gullible to the struggles that life throws at them. And it’s a double whammy if these children are girls. Twenty-two such girls live in Divya Prabha (DP), a home for street children located in Vartak Nagar, Thane. The girls are students of a TMC School at Shastri Nagar. What’s inspiring is that in spite of the lack of fortune, many of these girls do well in their academics …
The BIG Party
Children love birthdays. They love the cakes, the music, and the celebration. But not all children are fortunate to have their birthdays celebrated. Take for instance the students of Jidd School, who face the double whammy of being mentally challenged as well as hailing from poor families. Their parents are mostly daily wage earners who can barely manage a hand to mouth existence. Therefore birthday celebrations of their children are a luxury they cannot afford. But children being what they …