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What is your Outfit? Are you the Boss? Lady..

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International Men’s day just passed by, and not much pomp and show could be seen compared to the “weaker sex” as we state so!! Women’s day where every nook and corner of our country is full of offers, celebrations, discounts in stores to lure the lady, empowering talks for the Empress so to say!! (chuckle) Probably Men don’t require much of loud publicity cause somewhere on reality grounds he knows that he holds the control compared to the weaker sex.. and the empowering talks are nothing but a “publicity gimmick” for him ( to sit back in silence and create more jokes on women) So, just two days before this Men’s day event, I got to meet Apurva Purohit, President, Jagran Group, she has authored another book with a title LADY, YOU’RE the BOSS! The book comes out after a series of research and reflects some alarming facts and figures which do not match with the perfectly painted and layered pictures shown on the silver screen. While the malls and stores run majorly o...

Male Foeticide!! Does that sound like Parity?

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Isn’t that headline shocking, sounds bizarre and runs down your nerves!! Think differently, out of the box in real and true sense! Now the actual question emerges... Are we Qualified? Have we heard the term female foeticide in animals, from where has this concept been seeded in and emerged? Probably the seed lies in ownership... Ownership of a girl child till her life!! From the day, this tradition of parting away from girls after marriage has emerged; lands into a series of cascading effects. One primarily being, the another house she lands into is mostly a frictional mode of relationships. The girl is always seen as a foreign body amidst the environment, the major shift of a foreign body attracts a lot of insecurities, adjustment of perspectives, thought processes, adaptation etc. the process is so complex that it lasts for years, passing on generations of the baggage of mom-in-laws; or if not, the modern day has a solution called divorce . Let us begin with the se...

550-year -old theory of Human Liberation, by Guru Nanak!

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“Chaar Varan Ik Varan Karaya, Kal taran Guru Nanak Aaya” ; It’s the 550 th year when a legend called Guru Nanak. He was a true visionary, as the theories which we talk today were already explained by him while on a journey of preaching HUMANITY!! Kaliyug, as we term the current era, it is registered in scriptures in form of hyms, “Kal taran Guru Nanak Aaya”, that is Guru Nanak has arrived in this era and spread goodness around the world. He was born on full moon day, Kartik Poonam on 20th October 1469 as some scriptures mention, though being son of Kalyan Chand Das Bedi, a Brahmin...     He was always against the following few aspects: 1.        Caste system 2.        Favouring the Rich 3.        Gender Bias 4.        Pride and Ego He was a poet, philosopher and one of the biggest social-reformer of the current era. His first or openi...