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I had never given any significant thought to Hyderabad before I landed here a couple of years ago, and the reason was, there was not even a single connection between the city of Nizams and me. I had no relatives here, no friends (not even on Facebook and WhatsApp), not even a casual acquaintance…Alas!. Moreover, I had never thought of visiting HYD even in my dreams.All and all, a complete stranger landed on its soil due to my job change. However, when I started gelling with the fabrication of this city, I came across some very prominent manifests. For instance:In ... Read More

If prostitution is made legal in India, it will be seen by the flesh trade mafia as a license to grow their business beyond the traditional red light areas. It will also lead to unprecedented growth in child trafficking and kidnapping of teenage girls. The pimps and other human traffickers will become legitimate operators in a market that is no longer illegal. Many of them will go to the extent of opening 'offices' in decent neighborhoods where they will supply 'decent' prostitutes. Job opportunities will open up for scores of youth in the world's oldest profession with devastating consequences for ... Read More

Good manners mean the social and polite behavior that a person possesses. Good manners play a vital role in building human relations. It is the back bone of a stable social pattern. Good manners imply towards the certain values and behavior of human relationship which keeps the society alive.Good Manners refers to being humble, polite, respectful, courteous and well-cultured social behavior. A well-mannered man/woman is respected and esteemed wherever he goes and in whatever condition of life, he may be. Among students, in particular, the preservation of good manners is a boon and it costs nothing.Why do we need Good MannersWe ... Read More

To be honest, most of the loopholes in our laws with regard to women's empowerment have been plugged or are in the process of being plugged. Legally speaking, India doesn't discriminate against women but when it comes to social recognition of women's rights, there are a lot of discrepancies. For instance, women are traditionally found in certain professions and are completely absent from many others.Hence, if a woman is found driving a bus or a truck, she will attract undue attention from onlookers who might just ignore another woman driving a car or SUV at the same time. It's all ... Read More

The NGT (National Green Tribunal) recently banned the use of all forms of disposable plastic material, in Delhi and most of it is packaging material and disposable plastic cups used by street-side tea vendors. Prior to that in 2016, the union environment ministry announced new guidelines for manufacture and use of plastic carry bags by stipulating the minimum thickness of plastic carry bags to be 50 microns, which is an increase of 10 microns over what it was earlier.This increase in the thickness of plastic carry bags is expected to push up the cost of production by about 20 %, ... Read More

Right now the biggest threat to world peace is two rogue states with nuclear arms - North Korea and Pakistan backed by an ambitious and irresponsible superpower, China. The commonalities between the two rogue states are also quite intriguing; both are breakaway units of what once used to be unified countries - undivided Korea and undivided India. Intriguingly again, both these unified nations are peninsulas where the division of either country took place in the northern half of their landmass. Continuing the intrigue, both these nations share borders with China, which has developed "special" relationships with both these breakaway rogue ... Read More

According to a Salafist preacher by the name of Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, who runs a website for authentic information on everything related to Islam, known as IslamQA.info, a woman's face is the equivalent of 'Awrah' which means revealing among other things, in Arabic, and should hence be covered.Many others, who know the Quran well, however, say that Muslim tradition requires the whole body to be covered in attire that doesn't hug the body too tightly, except the face, hands, and feet. The term 'Burqa' is Arabic and it has come to mean the veiled overall covering the woman who wears ... Read More

The biggest cultural shock I faced was related to English speaking. Hindi is the first language of Indians, but when someone in India is not able to speak or reply to someone else in English especially when they are out to a restaurant or some cafe, they feel embarrassed.Sometimes people even feel cringeworthy for not being able to speak English. What makes it even worse is that people in India sometimes judge the intelligence of someone by their English spoken skills.How could language speaking define someone’s intelligence in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, etc? A language is meant to communicate and every ... Read More

Change is an inevitable part of life and in the passage of time, radical and dynamic changes keep happening. This is because society has to adapt itself with the changing times and it does not remain static. But the 21st century is an era where drastic changes happen every single day leading to the emergence of various issues. One of these issues is a generation gap.It is has become a widely popular in different forms globally. Generation gap implies the ideological, cultural and social disassociation and disagreement in beliefs and existing system by the younger generation which tends to create ... Read More

Religion today has taken a much-institutionalized form. Its origin has always been debated and discussed today by various scholars. In sociological terms, ‘Religion is a system of sacred belief and practices both in the tangible and intangible form’. Religion can serve the dual role of ideology as well as institution. Today, religion has assumed a more narrow-minded approach. However, understanding religion in the broad sense highlights the following important points about it in society:Cultural IdentityReligion plays a crucial role for a person in giving a cultural identity. Each religion has festivals, traditions, mythologies which form a part of the tangible ... Read More