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Life has been defined by many scholars. But life is in living, not in definitions. Struggle is a part of everyone’s life. For some, it may be for a short time and for some others it could well be a never ending one. The world runs on these shoulders. They have something in them, a never ending confidence. Even after a tiresome day, they would return to carry out the same struggle again, without a

October 4-7, 2006 - Hindu-Muslim Riots: Curfew from dawn to dusk for a week, shoot at sight, tear gas thrown to dismiss the unruly mob and lathi charge to beat up protestors and, a lot of ‘violence’. September 14-16, 2008 - Hindu-Christian Riots: Angry protestors sitting in front of Churches to protect it from attacks. Tear gas, lathi charge and Section 144 used to dismiss the angry young lads

The word “Marriage” will certainly make many youngsters sport an inevitable smile on their faces. Marriage is an art of connecting the souls and I presume that young hearts are almost in a smiling mood by now. So are you getting married? Congratulations! May God bless you and bring you and your chosen partner together for a happy and prosperous life. Marriage is such an important step that our

Social networking sites are truly nowadays, the cutting edge of runaway internet craze. Infact some of the people judge your class and caliber via these. There are many sites like Facebook, orkut,youtube, blogger to name a few. Good number of people feel that if someone does not have a prolific network profile, he is substandard. It should not be a matter of concern to us if others judge our

- The distance between the site of the ghastly air crash that took pace in Mangalore and his house back in Gangulli, the coastal village in Kundapur Taluk is 100 odd kilometers. But 1 hour 5 minutes is all it took for him to zip across to Bajpe in his bike and get going with rescue operations. Meet Tazim Gangulli, the man who wastes no time in pouncing on any act of service and social work. Tazim

- Do we live in a materialistic world where our marble tiled floor is much more important than our cousin’s son? Is our china clay pottery more important than our five year old nephew who broke it by mistake while he was playing? We would not want anyone to come over to our place... ‘What if she spoiled my yellow curtains? What if she throws up in my house? What if they comment on our la opeala

- Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is presiding over the first Bharatiya Janata Party government in the South, has completed two years in office. Understandably, the government has desisted from high profile celebrations in the wake of Mangalore air crash and the more recent tragedy in Chitradurga district, where at least 30 passengers died after a state-run bus turned turtle and

Saturday, May 22 - the day that will go down in the history of Indian aviation as one of the most tragic days to say the least, put on display something that our land was so very famous for – Unity. People, irrespective of religion and caste, engaged themselves in rescue operations from the crash site in a way that the world was compelled to take note of it. With no morsel of food dropping down

Oblivious of what is going to happen tomorrow, or the next moment, we all live in a world of dreams. There are a number of people in our extended family, who have gone to Dubai with such dreams after realising that they would not earn enough if they stay back. As far as I know, they work day in and day out to make a decent living and they are also spread across the Gulf countries. They are

- As I woke up in the morning of May 22, my family had gathered in the living room, their faces glued to the T.V. screen and a myriad of emotions displaying on everyone`s face from shock to horror and finally sympathy registering. A plane crash claiming the lives of 150 odd people turned our lives inside out and left us hanging in there with a question, “Is this all that is there to life??” There