It’s the night before the Hindu festival Dussehra and Dr. Rishma Dhillon Pai is preparing for a long day come morning. One patient has already scheduled a...

I am sorry for going back on my word to not write on sex for some time. But why not? Sex is not a 4 letter word, Sexy is. I am not a psychoanalyst or urologist – no...

An ideal groom in this dusty farming village is a vegetarian, does not drink, has good prospects for a stable job and promises his bride-to-be an amenity in high...

There is lot of confusion regarding the practice of dowry in Indian society.Though it’s now legally banned,it would not be out of place to understand its role in...

Women, role models of Indian society, can be counted on the fingers. Most of them are Muslims such as Razia Sultana and Sania Mirza. Not that women having Hindu beliefs...

With over 75% of Uttrakhand’s population living in villages with scarce medical facilities the Infant Mortality rate for the state is reported to be 42 per thousand...

Echoes from a Grateful heart. I never had the fortune to share a bond with my mother but I can feel the warmth of her love when I was enjoying the hospitality of her...

The barely literate homemaker struggled everyday to feed her husband and two children with only a small patch of land in the drought-hit belt of India’s Maharashtra...

“Good parents give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is wings to fly away and exercise what has been taught to them.” Various...

Is India a gender-biased country? What kind of welfare work the successive governments have done for the women in the country till the date? If we believe on the report...

India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru once had said that one could tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women. This was...

In a country where every three minutes, a woman faces harassment, legislation in the form of Domestic violence bill to protect the suffering women is unacceptable to...

Indian women generally do not look for sex partners other than their husbands. According to the government sources, only two percent of Indian women have had sex with...