UNDERNUTRITION The CNNS (Comprehensive National Nutrition survey) report by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare assumes salience, especially against two important factors. The Global Hunger Index, 2019 – India’s Rank 102/170 countries. India’s past performance – moderate decline in child stunting (impaired growth of child) but not child wasting (thinness in the child). The […]
Breakfast Blessings
A wise saying and I quote “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” Well, a lot of things have been said and written about whether one should eat breakfast or skip it. With new ideas related to losing weight, the fundamentals have been challenged quite a lot. With our internet, a boon to mankind, we […]
A Counselor’s Inspiration: A Period of Bumps and Humps
In a world where we are constantly judged by others, it is nice to have someone who will just LISTEN & UNDERSTAND!! When I started working as a counselor 11 years ago, I was in the initial learning phase of how to deal with students of varied age groups. I wonder where did the inspiration […]
There is No Friend as Loyal as a Book
The most beautiful thing about books is it lets you travel without moving your feet, it makes you a traveller, a wanderer, a philosopher, a voyager and what not, without even being in the world out there and still being present. It’s an intelligent feeling to be able to sustain that amount of knowledge and […]