Perhaps the biggest debate in the coming years will not be ‘Should children be kept away from social media?’ But rather, ‘How safe should social media be made for children, and who should be legally responsible for its safety?’ Dr Noour Ali Zehgeer If it was connecting with Family and friends or keeping yourself updated…
As painful memories are repeatedly replayed, could the brain’s remarkable plasticity sometimes work against itself? Umair AshrafConsider a medial temporal focal seizure. There may be no dramatic collapse and no violent convulsion. Awareness simply becomes altered. A person may suddenly lose track of where they are, forget what they were doing moments earlier, or fail…
When power changes hands, principles should not change sides Anil Kumar SharmaWhenever we discuss corruption, our conversation almost invariably turns towards the person who has taken a bribe, accumulated disproportionate wealth or misused his position. We identify the corrupt officer, the businessman, the middleman, the contractor or the politician who has been caught. But there…
What are we doing to make our neighbourhoods safer for children? Protecting a child is not somebody else’s duty. It is ours. Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili Child abuse is not merely a crime problem. It is a warning about the environment we are creating around them. A child in Budgam. Another, barely into adolescence, in…
Listen to your children’s silence as carefully as you listen to their words. Khursheed Ahmad Akhoon The mountains of Jammu and Kashmir know how to keep their silence. They have witnessed grief for generations, absorbing the pain of those who live among them without ever asking them to explain it. Perhaps that is why, in…
