The Jarawa are one of the world’s most isolated populations for whom common Western infections can be fatal. Politicians on the islands and on the Indian mainland support the economic development of the islands and believe it is better for the Jarawa to be brought into the country’s mainstream…

Aside from the immediate physical injuries children can experience through maltreatment, a child’s reactions to abuse or neglect can have lifelong and even intergenerational impacts. Childhood maltreatment can be linked to later physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences as well as costs to society as a whole. These consequences may be independent of each other, but […]

Few school teachers were good, many could only teach whatever they knew. So syllabus kept on changing, passing marks went down and down. That’s from personal experience in helping correct school papers for my family members: I have my Dad, Uncles, Aunts, both Grandpas and latest my sister joining the teacher’s group! Sometimes my Dad […]