The Most Important Choice of My Life Year after year, I scored highest marks in Biology and my family always thought that I would want to be a doctor. So when I chose to take up dress designing everybody was rudely shocked. My parents sat me down and explained to me that I would be wasting my life if I took up dress designing. Dad said that I had a natural...

The Most Important Choice of My Life Year after year, I scored highest marks in Biology and my family always thought that I would want to be a doctor. So when I chose to take up dress designing everybody was rudely shocked. My parents sat me down and explained to me that I would be wasting my life if I took up dress designing. Dad said that I had a natural...

Ghazals The Ghazal is an ancient poetic form consisting, of rhyming couplets, and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. The Ghazal has specific form; it deals with just one subject: Love. Ghazals speak specifically about one kind of love- an illicit and unattainable love. The Ghazal is the unrequited lover’s rendition of love for his unattainable beloved. The lyrical impetus of the Ghazal lies in the fact that...

Teens and Drugs The relationship between teens and drugs has been around for many decades. The teen years are probably the most turbulent years of one’s life. They are the most crucial years in the maturation process and during these years, the teenagers are faced with many challenges like discovering their identity outside home, their new sexual roles, independence, coping with authority and the most important of all, figuring out their...

Sudha Chandran Most Indians are familiar with the name of danseuse Sudha Chandran but few know the story behind this woman. Sudha’s parents were art lovers and seeing her inclination towards dancing, took her to Kala Sadan to learn classical dancing at the young age of five. Sudha’s association with the stage began at the age of eight. By the age of 17, she had given over 75 performances. One day,...

Can Terrorism Ever Be Justified? An indefensible act that targets and kills civilians is generally accepted as “terrorism”. When a country is at war, it is prepared to withstand the enemy and lose lives. However, terrorism is different in that it terrorizes everybody and creates in its wake chaos and retreat regardless of race, nationality or religion. Such atrocity is hard to condone whatever its justification might be. The US attacks...

The Grading System – Good or Bad? Most of us are familiar with the popular grading system having been subjected to it all our schooling years. While the objective of the grading system is to chalk the students’ academic progress, it fails to indicate the effectiveness with which students are grasping, absorbing, retaining and applying the knowledge they have gained. The flaw in the system lies in the fact that a...