Off with the kid's gloves
The debate is still on whether understanding of sex and sexuality is leading to early puberty in young children or early puberty has made it necessary to make young children aware of sex and sexuality
Punching above our weight
The present performances we are seeing from the boxers of the country is the result of continuous labour of many years. There has been nothing other than incessant hard work and focussed training. I am not talking just about the boxers; efforts have been made equally by the coaches and the support staff.
Heralds of a new wave?
Cinema came to Kerala when Paul Vincent screened some films with his Edison Bioscope at Kozhikode in 1906. But film production came much later.
'This will end in my favour'
The auxiliary bishop of Mumbai publicly appreciates those who have levelled charges against me. He "rejoices†about their "courageâ€. It is in the interest of the Catholic Church to silence me, even if the dirty work is done by some fanatic fools.
The deep end of unreason
Sanal Edamaruku, president of the Indian Rationalist Association, who is facing arrest for hurting the religious sentiments of Catholics after he debunked a miracle at the Church of Our Lady of Velankanni in Vile Parle, continued to travel and was in touch with well-wishers even as Delhi police visited his home in the national capital last week to execute a Mumbai police arrest warrant.
Quite a racquet!
I love the sport. Playing badminton or in other words doing what you love is a privilege. Most people in this world would like to pursue what they like to do and still don’t end up doing that. They don’t get to follow their dreams. For me, it’s an absolute dream to be doing this.
Pedaling phallacies
A trip to a Swiss ski resort in the summer can be an unnerving experience for most men. Zermatt is a quaint little town at the foot of the iconic Matterhorn made famous by skiers, snowboarders and other winter lunatics of a third kind.
Rio+20 and Beyond
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – known as Rio+20 – held recently in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, first between June 15 and 18 in the form of a corporate sustainability forum and subsequently through to 21 June as bilateral talks and meetings between heads of governments, aims to put the world on a more sustainable course in the environmental, social, economic and governance spheres.
Whose centenary is it?
The foundations of Indian cinema were laid in the 1890s by pioneers like Hiralal Sen, who pre-dated Dadsaheb Phalke by more than a decade.
Shrinking Forests
We have to attain oneness with the environment to reverse the destruction we have caused.
India's religious divide
As French sociologist Emile Durkheim postulated the main function of religion is to celebrate and sustain the norms upon which the integration of society depends.
The Apology Dilemma
If US President Barak Obama had visited Pakistan, apologised for the deaths of the Pakistani soldiers in the drone strikes and restored a billion dollar aid to the country, it would have served the cause of a smooth US departure from Afghanistan.
Afforestation of woods and water
"Our only water source has dried up as a result of deforestation. In how much time will it reappear if we consciously redevelop a forest in the region?†This was a question Gopalakrishna and Vijayalakshmi, ex-teachers of Sarang, in Palakkad district of Kerala were posing to a number of scientists about a couple of decades ago.
Opportunities ignored
While I was standing in the queue at the Attari-Wagah border passport window, I came across Mishal, a Portuguese tourist who had just visited Pakistan and was entering India.
Inter-linking of rivers
Having earned the praise of the international community for the judicial activism of the Supreme Court of India in other environmental issues, the apex court of India has now given the go ahead for the most ambitious national project of interlinking rivers in the Himalayan and peninsular basin.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
