Let’s Walk for Bihar!

Sir, In the past  few months, walking around the streets or scrolling down our Facebook timeline, we have noticed the beautiful graffiti in the city, which is  a contribution of the artists of Walk For Bihar. ‘Walk For Bihar’ inaugurated on October 28th, 2016 by the Arts and Culture Minister, Shivchandra Ram at NIFT, Patna […]

Girls, schools, and dropping out

Sir India has one of the fastest growing populations in the world, with an estimated 190 million adolescents. Girls below 19 years of age comprise one quarter of India’s rapidly growing population and their education plays a vital role in building up the society and nation at large. As there is a famous saying “if […]

Boxers make India Proud

Sir, India is proud to have  sports persons like Vikash Krishna and MC Mary Kom, who took India to the next level of championship. Former Asian Games gold medalist Vikash Krishan, an Indian Boxer is going to create history soon as he will be receiving the ‘Best Boxer’ award by the International Boxing Association, during […]

Support for Prime Minister’s Surgical Strike

Support for Prime Minister’s Surgical Strike

  Sir, Since the news of Demonetization of the Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000  broke on the evening of 8th November 2016, the people of the country have become cashless.  They have to struggle to manage every day as no one was taking the demonetized notes. This action has divided the nation into the supporters […]

Bihar has no space for Sports!

Bihar has no space for Sports!

Sir, With the rapid increase of development in Bihar like coming up of big malls and flyovers, we are hardly able to find any proper sports ground or stadium to raise a platform for our players into national or international level. Patna’s playgrounds like Moinul Haq Stadium or Patliputra Sports Complex are all in pitiable […]

Street children and inhalants

Street children and inhalants

Sir, Yesterday when my friends and I  were walking through the streets of Maurya Lok, a girl of about 5 years came running to us. She had a dusky complexion with an unkempt look and was holding a silver packet which she was inhaling every now and then. She wanted us to buy her an […]

MEDIA: REMOTE CONTROLLER FOR YOUTH ?

MEDIA: REMOTE CONTROLLER FOR  YOUTH ?

Sir, It is said that media today acts as a “mirror” to the society. Media is an inseperable part of youth’s life. Historically, newspapers were the most common of media, but today cell phones and other electronic devices have taken over all forms of communication. Youth today depend on the media for information on everything […]

Letters: Two sides of demonitisation

Letters: Two sides of demonitisation

Is Demonetisation a step in  haste? Sir, There is no doubt that a solid step was needed to combat the problem of black money but it is also a fact that the major step was to be taken with considerable advance thinking with alternative arrangement to meet the monetary crisis  faced by common people. As […]

Is urbanisation helping the marginalised people?

Is urbanisation helping the marginalised people?

Sir Urbanisation seems to be the solution of unemployment and condition of the poor people, but I want to ask a question. Does it really help? Actually the answer is no, it doesn’t help but create more problems and hassles all around us. Urbanisation has become an issue that needs to be sorted out. I […]

Indian Railways :Hurtling towards Death?

Indian Railways :Hurtling towards Death?

Sir, Has not the Kanpur train tragedy once again put the spotlight on railway’s utter neglect in maintaining and upgrading its infrastructure, particularly aging tracks? At least 120 lives have been snuffed out in the deadliest train accident in six years as the Indore-Patna express packed with more than 2,000 people and going 100 kmph, […]

Can you think of life without water?

Can you think of life without water?

Sir Water is the basic need for every creature whether  animal or human being. We cannot think of surviving without water but the sad fact is that there is about only three percent of fresh water in the world and the rest is in the form of ice and glaciers. This everyday increasing population and […]

Impact of Social Media on Family

Social Media and the Impact on the family was the focus of this year’s Annual Regional Assembly of Signis Bijhan.  Signis or the ‘Sign of Fire’ is the name of the social communication association of the Catholic Church, a body of audio-visual and new media professionals. Thirteen representatives from Bihar and Jharkhand are spending two […]

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