Care or Career — A Difficult Choice In the days before women’s liberation, women were expected to play only one role and that was as home maker. This involved being wife, mother, cook and clean up. woman. Perhaps life was simpler back then. The men took care of providing food and shelter and the women took care of the home. Women’s liberation has meant that women can now think beyond the...

The Importance of Pets Pets are not human but display a lot of human qualities like strong personalities, emotions, preferences, etc. While pets are mere domesticated animals for those who do not possess them, for those few who do they are not just dogs, cats, or birds; they are family. Despite the odds favouring owners outliving their pets, pet owners are inclined to keep on getting themselves new pets when the...

Health Spa A spa must not be confused with spa pools — tubs of water that one can relax in with different kinds of water jets massaging one’s body. A spa pool might be a part of a SPA but the spa itself is something totally different. The origin of the word SPA is very interesting. In the times of the Roman Empire, battle weary warriors would return tired with aching...

Booming Beauty Industry The earliest evidence of beauty devices were found in the ruins in Babylon. Not only the women, but also the men wore eye shadow, curled their hair, brushed on eyeliner, darkened their lashes, and used henna for nail colour. Ancient Grecian women used crushed berries for blush on their cheeks, and wore fake eyebrows made of ox’s hair. The Egyptians used blue paint to show off theirveins, and...

Medical Insurance Health is the basic right of every human being. Everything must be done to ensure that everyone, irrespective of their social standing or economic status, can avail of it. With India’s burgeoning population it is becoming increasingly difficult for the government to provide public health care. More than 75% of the population avails medical care from the private sector. However, with the increasing costs of medical care it has...

Public Transport in India Trains and buses are the main modes of public transport in India. India’s rail network is the longest in the world. All rail operations in India are run by the state-owned company called Indian Railways. For over a century and a half, the Indian Railways has worked hard to make inroads into remote areas in an effort to provide communication. Indian Railways is one of India’s most...

Genetic Engineering Advantages and Disadvantages Genetic engineering is the modification or manipulation of the blueprints called genes, which give us our uniqueness, to change the characteristic of an organism. We see it all around us. We find it mixed in our food sitting on the shelves of the supermarket- genetically engineered food. It has been unceremoniously dumped on us. Ever since agriculture and the domestication of animals and plants began, man...

Electricity The latter part of the nineteenth century saw electricity transform itself from a scientific curiosity into a basic necessity. It was only much later that electricity came to be the driving force that it is today. Most of us who live in cities can’t even imagine life without electricity. The universe, as we know it, would fail to exist if there was no electricity. Almost everything that we use today;...