Saurabh Tankha Sushant Singh Rajput, Manmeet Grewal, Preksha Mehta and today, Samir Sharma. Are you also thinking on the lines similar to what I am wondering about – why is it that only people who have “faced the arc lights” on the small screen are choosing to commit “suicides”? Are actors the only “depressed, mentally […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha Am I angry at Sushant Singh Rajput? Yes, I am. I have no sympathies for him. I am sure hundreds of you out there will pick up cudgels on his behalf on how he was so ‘cornered’ and how the gang of Bollywood biggies drove him to tie that noose around his neck. […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha We all were seeing it coming since a long time, but humans being humans, too full of their supremacy over other species ignored the signs Mother Nature was giving. And Mother Nature put up with our atrocities till it could. Then it just refused. And Covid-19 happened. The reason of Coronavirus can be […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Now, this is a big question that faces the parents. It is not that our parents and generations before them had it easy. It never was an easy task. But let’s face it. Today’s children are well-informed, vocal and independent and they can neither be threatened, coerced or even flattered into acting […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Has your child become lonesome and started avoiding social contact? Does he/she not participate in activities that he/she enjoyed earlier? Have you seen any change in the eating habits or sleeping pattern? Does he/she have mood swings? Or is he/she watching too much TV? If the answer to any of the above […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha As a society, we collectively abhor the idea of sex education to our teenagers. Most teachers would rather skip the chapter on reproduction in science text books. I remember way back in the 1980s, my biology teacher told us to read the chapter at home! We were in class IX at that […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Sexual abuse is a topic about which we should speak to children at an early age. The incidents of sexual offences against kids as small as two and three make it imperative that they are taught about it sooner than later. But as the age is very small, the talking has to […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Dear children, are you in constant conflict with your parents? Well, don’t be dejected. You are not alone. Almost all teenage children have conflicts with their parents, only the extent may vary. Conflicts are a part and parcel of parent-child relationship. The important point is to resolve conflicts as soon as they […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha ‘Hi!! I’m Sara. I’m 13 and study in class 8th in Ryan International. What? Oh, my hobbies? My hobbies include watching videos on YouTube, chatting with friends on Facebook and updating my twitter status every one hour.’ No, no! This is not something I have made up on my own. This is how […]Read More