Today one of the most elite and prestigious trains of India Rajdhani Express was held hostage for almost 5 hours. Some 200 people who surrounded the train and abducted the driver were no terrorists but yet they did manage to spread word of terror. The abducted driver was later released and Central Reserve Police Force [...]

With its 20 kilometers of pristine valley, Dresden owned the famous UNESCO label since 2004. It was a crowning reward of years of meticulous reconstruction work of its Baroque gems that were reduced to a pile of stones in 1945 by the Allied bombings. Now, the Dresden Elbe Valley has to take the bitter pill. [...]

If children are deprived and denied of their rights, their full potential will not be realized. This is Plan International’s definition of Child Poverty. For Plan, the common issues on children according to the 4 broad rights are survival, development, protection, and participation. 
The challenge of education comes under the issue on Development. These challenges that [...]

In Mary Oraon, protagonist in Mahasweta Devi’s ‘The Hunt,’ we find the concrete alternative to capably resist not only the injustice of gender politics but also the incursion upon tribal land and forests by feudalism, colonialism, and global capitalism.
There is a reason why Australia figures in the story. Mary and the trees planted on her [...]

People believe what they see and feel themselves. Even if there are other mechanisms that issue opinions about leaders such as opinion-makers and media, it is still, ultimately, the perception of the people that make them gauge the leadership of the one who heads them.
This perception is personal and based on what people see for [...]

There is something really cool about the ecological systems theory, but Lev Vygotsky and his socio-cultural theory are also very important. Vygotsky was a Russia developmental psychologist who died at the early of age of 38. He argued that cognitive growth occurs in a socio-cultural context and that it influences the form it takes. He [...]