Dr Benazir Patil

Caste or religion? Caste or class? What is it?

June 10, 2023

Widely recognised for its traditional village life, India has had a hierarchical social structure which continues to manifest itself more in rural areas than in urban. Despite industrialization and varied other phenomenon, these age-old portrayals persist. In the interim, few centuries of British rule, employed these categories like caste, village,...

Free will and power to shape destiny

May 16, 2023

For ages, prophets and theologians have talked about free will and destiny. Destiny, often explained as a predetermined course of events, is attributed to a divine power or force. It signifies that certain events and outcomes are fated to happen and cannot be changed, regardless of the actions or choices...

Do we want to justify the angry young man?

December 10, 2022

Once upon a time, the image of an angry young man was depicted heroically and the nation applauded his guts. But today, anger and aggression among youth is not only a challenge but it continues to be an unstoppable discussion. Aggression is the delivery of an aversive stimulus from one...

Should digital equity be a national priority?

November 26, 2022

C onnectivity — through internet— is a major differentiator between developed and developing nations today. It supposedly informs where the power resides. Twenty years ago, when it was first used, it took time for the world to understand what it meant. And even today, it means different things to different...

In search of healthy cities in India

October 24, 2022

One of the studies published in 2019 equated the city-dweller’s activity of inhaling air pollution to smoking a pack of cigarettes each day for 29 years. This is supposedly the indication for the health of our lungs alone, without saying much about the impact on the rest of our body....

Ohh, the poor rich

October 22, 2022

No existing society generates enough wealth for everyone to be rich. From antiquity, the world has had a handful of people who are rich, and the rest are always trying their best to get themselves added to those few. Most of us imagine that just about all our problems would...

Gen Z: Are we losing them?

October 8, 2022

“Young adults are ‘too relaxed’ and do not care about the crisis.” The pandemic branded digital natives as careless, unconcerned, and many other characteristics. Two years on, and a bunch of universities and researchers have curiously been intruding into the lives of Gen Z (those born in the late nineties,...

MARRIAGE OR NO MARRIAGE? UNDENIABLE FACETS OF LIFE!

August 2, 2022

‘Single doesn’t always mean lonely and relationship doesn’t always mean happy”, is a common statement one gets to see on social media these days. Marriage, a traditionally acclaimed, so called, lifelong partnership seems to be in jeopardy today. The present–day adult in India is in two minds. On one hand...

THE SECOND DECADE: THE ‘IFS’ AND ‘BUTS’ OF NUTRITION

June 23, 2022

An ironical co-occurrence continues to persist in India, of under and over-nutrition. Globally, this is referred to as a double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of under-nutrition along with obesity or the nutrition-related non-communicable disease. Few of the recent studies conducted among school-going adolescents from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh talk about...

What is gender equality and what does it signify?

June 3, 2022

Invariably, a discussion of any kind, on the current socio-cultural and economic structure, leads to a clichéd statement, “Women in India are considered inferior to men!” However, for most of us, it is difficult to understand the implications of what we generally exclaim. Is it simply about being a man...

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