Kunal

There was a time when being poor meant destitution. The little boys and girls begging at traffic signals. Grown men and woman holding down minimum-wage jobs, barely able to provide one meal a day for themselves and their families. You could see it in their faces; in their eyes. Hunger, desperation, a need to improve their lot – it...

A number of things have happened in our country in 2016. Things that should dominate the public discourse, and make the people of the country take their ruling class to task. A botched anti-terrorist operation in Pathankot, a drought that threatens to turn into a famine and a severe lack of industrial growth have all had their moments of...

Buying a home is the dream of every person. However, with the rates for property being what they are, such a purchase is impossible without taking a home loan. We have discussed the best ways to negotiate a Home Loan elsewhere on this site, and also mentioned that while debt should, in general, be avoided as much as possible,...

Progress. A small word, that means so much. To go forward, to endeavour for a better life, to strive to achieve something beyond the ordinary. It is a natural feature of the human condition –a desire for progress. It is what took humans from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age and beyond, making a race of physically weak...

It is career-choosing time in India. The CBSE results were out a few days ago, and state boards are releasing theirs as well. Children – and much more, their parents – will anxiously go through these numbers, these percentages that seem so important in deciding the future, and make decisions that will have a far-reaching on their own lives. Image...