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
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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
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha It was around 10.30 am yesterday when I reached the Botanic Garden Metro station, Sector 37, Noida. I was on way to my mom’s home in Delhi to participate in a family puja. As I alighted the steps and entered the check-in area, I noticed a long queue at one of the […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha If you destroy nature, nature will destroy you… There is no denying this fact. Every year, we have one or the other natural calamity: an earthquake, a landslide, a cloud burst or a flood more severe than the previous one leading to a massive loss of life and property but man in […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha As if mainstream media wasn’t enough, social media too is now falling into the same rut. There is a slight difference though: while journalists working in mainstream media are answerable to their bosses and hence, follow a particular line of writing, there are no such limitations on social media. The result: all […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The other day, I was chatting with a group of friends when the conversation veered around on how the times are changing, how neither small girls nor old women are safe in our country, how the crime is increasing, how the boys are indulging in sexual crimes. “We must do something, may […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha …and the world came crashing down. “The FNAC (Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology) report is positive. Your wife has cancer”. For years after the doctor who broke this news to us at Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital in 2006, I wondered with how much ease and comfort could he say it. Perhaps he was a professional, […]Read More