At the end of this week, most children would have gone back to school, college, easing into their normal routines. After three months of summer, we(parents) are also readjusting to routines. Over all these years of being...

Facebook aka fakebook gets people depressed. What is Facebook for? It was created for harmless fun and to get connected with each other-but it has become more than that. It is viewed as a private space to share your life...

Wishing for a real life ? A website called ( is hugely popular these days –their mantra? You can say anything here, even the things you cannot tell your best friend because as it turns out Internet has made us “game face...

Facebook friends could change credit score A new trend – lenders would be giving loans not just on your credit score but also on the kind of friends you have on Facebook. Simply put, if you have friends that show irrespo...

Have we forgotten how to live in the present? Image Source : ( School reopens (USA) in a few weeks time –for some next week and for others much later. By September, though all the kids will be in school –I know many moms...

To my friends who live outside of Turkey: I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because at the time of my writing most of the media sources are...

The accumulation of documented rape cases in India through 2012 — each one individual, each one involving a specific woman's specific suffering — created a kind of unbearable arithmetic that the December Delhi gang rape...

Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...

Retro Reel is a column about movies, but not about the latest box-office releases. There will be aspects of review, but the column is intended more as a recommendation of good movies of different genres, with the sense o...

The CID on Monday arrested a software engineer, Sai Kumar, 28, employed with Mahindra Satyam in the US, when he arrived at Shamshabad airport, for defaming his former colleague by hacking into her email IDs and creating...

The question of whether Islam is systematically misunderstood by Western audiences—and by some Muslims themselves—sits at the center of one of the most contested debates of the early twenty-first century, with scholars,...

Diwali is an important Hindu festival, and USPS (US Postal Service) is considering issuing stamps for this occasion. USPS has stamps for other festivals like Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid, and Chinese New Year. To do...

The father of Hannah Truelove, 16, who was found dead behind her mother's apartment complex on August 24, has spoken out for the first time about the horrific ordeal.Gainesveille, Georgia, officials have refused to go in...

A Washington Post investigation into chronic fatigue and low energy struck a nerve with millions of American readers who recognized themselves in its description of a population perpetually running on fumes — alert enoug...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

In July 2012, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper publicly confirmed that he is gay in an email to Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan, which Sullivan published with Cooper's permission. The statement was characteristically dir...

When Nora Ephron died of leukemia in June 2012 at the age of seventy-one, the tributes that poured in from writers, filmmakers, and readers reflected not just the scale of her achievement — When Harry Met Sally, Sleeples...

Street smarts — the cluster of skills that allows a person to read situations accurately, recognize danger before it materializes, communicate with a wide range of people, and navigate unfamiliar or difficult environment...

Facebook's experiment with charging page owners in New Zealand to "promote" posts to their own followers drew sharp criticism in 2012, exposing tensions between the social network's business model and user expectations b...

It was an eye opener-this Sunday's Satyamev Jayate. 53% of kids are sexually abused. We have to hear our kids -when they are saying something-about being uncomfortable, about not wanting to interact with certain individu...

Rifling through my wardrobe for the perfect ensemble to wear for a romantic dinner with my husband, a low-cut dress and strappy sandals catch my eye. The outfit is sexy with a hint of old-school Hollywood glamour...

As I sat down to face my mom, I sensed she was unhappy about something. "Joe, I am disappointed in you.Your writing scores are terribly low.You need to work on this. I have bought a diary for you. I want you to write a j...

Trayvon Martin may have attacked a Neighborhood Watch captain before the man shot dead the unarmed teen in a gated community in Florida, an anonymous witness who spoke to police claimed yesterday. The witness, known only...

Volume 5 of the Friday cooking column arrives with a menu built around the principle that the best weeknight food often comes from the pantry rather than the produce aisle — dishes where the deep work has been done by so...

The question of why marriages fail has occupied psychologists, sociologists, theologians, and divorce lawyers for as long as marriage has existed as a legal and social institution. What the research over the past half-ce...

IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com, a dating Web site focused on twentysomethings. They sought to set themselves apart by enabling members to set up group dates: One member, serving as a point p...

Valentine's Day generates enormous commercial activity and a recurring set of cultural arguments — about its Hallmark-holiday origins, its exclusionary pressure on the single, its reduction of romantic love to a single a...

Google's pattern of launching social networking products that fail to dislodge Facebook had, by late 2010, become a reliable feature of the technology industry's competitive landscape. Each launch was accompanied by genu...