Publications
Tobacco: Its Use and Abuse – A Reminder On World No Tobacco Day
Tobacco was first discovered by the native people of early America and South America and later introduced to Europe and the rest of the world. It was already in use when Columbus and the…
Bande Utkala Janani: Recalling Inspiring Moments In Songs & Music
Who can ever forget India’s tryst with destiny on April 3, 1984, when a young and gallant Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma orbited mother Earth in his Soyuz T-11 spacecraft and became the first…
Of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
Having lost the track of time over the last few days preoccupied with matters urgent that made me forget the events that makes the day significant, I settled down in the morning to rummage…
Culture In Flux: Bamiyan Lessons To World Day For Cultural Diversity
It was a balmy day on March 2, 2001, following the melting of the snow, in the picturesque Bamiyan Valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan that years ago had seen the laden…
Morning Musings In Twin Times Of Amphan And Corona
Inundated with the many wishes of welfare received from my friends and the anticipation of an impending calamity about to befall, I took to measured steps of somnolent awakening that kept me…
Morning Musings In Twin Times of Amphan and Corona
Inundated with the many wishes of welfare received from my friends and the anticipation of an impending calamity about to befall, I took to measured steps of somnolent awakening that kept me…
Caregiving: From The Time of The Epics to The Modern Days
Having glanced over the alluring and beguiling charm that Caregiving inveigled my vision with; through the progressive experiences I went through as enumerated in the previous two parts of…
Caregiving: Recollections From Some Exalted Lives And Redefining Caregiving
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”- Mother TeresaAfter the demise of my mother, I rose from the aftermath with a Phoenixian resolve, with a renewed…
Caregiving: Remembrances And Reflections On International Day Of Families
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where,” said Alice. “Then it…
The Symbolism Of Mother: An Ovation For Mother’s Day
The year 1961 was a turning point in my life, when as a young boy of six, buoyant with myriad visions of a promising morrow, I and my family of two equally young siblings and a caring…