Life begins at 50

Just before 2013 dawned, a friend called to wish me a happy New Year, and as a parting comment he said, “You know something - the countdown of my life will start in a few hours. Tomorrow I’ll be 50”. When I kept silent, he asked me, “It’s just a number, isn’t it?”

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Vignettes

Rape: A psychological perspective

India’s recent gang-rape tragedy is said to be a “tipping point” in the battle against sexual violence. The rape of the girl and the resultant trauma she experienced is not something new and this is not the first and last of such horrendous events.

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Thorns on the Side

The wireless future

The term ‘wireless’ is familiar to both the old and new generations. Most elders still refer to the radio as the ‘wireless’, while the younger generation does not even know that a ‘wired’ world existed at all. Their whole lifestyle is ‘wireless’ so to speak.

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