“Literacy is the first step towards freedom, towards liberation from social and economic constraints. It is the prerequisite for development, both individual and collective. It reduces poverty and inequality, creates wealth, and helps to eradicate problems of nutrition and public health.” — Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of the UNESCO Message on the occasion of the International…
It’s another day! How often are we excited or perhaps frightened to hear such statements? If nothing, the year 2020 has taught us that it takes just 24 hours or maybe much less, to alter everything we had in our mental or physical vaults as ‘another day’. Hence, the importance of posing this question, another…
Time: 16:28 — (GMT +3) Location: Canal Hotel D-day: August 13, 2003 Close your eyes and imagine with me for a second. You’re in a sauna room and it’s everything you ever anticipated – just the right amount of humid, steamy but not necessarily dry such that you can feel your skin wrinkling, beads of…
Everybody involved in moulding the lives of the youth must be aware of the nature of the youth as well as their problems. Times are changing. It is the turn of a decade and we were first ushered into it with a global pandemic that has changed who we are, how we communicate, and how…
Friends, companions, comrades; these are people in our lives we may constantly overlook but the International Day of Friendship or International Friendship day, 30th July does not. The celebration of this day has been restricted this year due to the ongoing pandemic but this does not stop us from appreciating the members of our respective…