Loud Thinking

Why has prayer gone missing from our lives? - II

TRUE, temples are receiving throngs of devotees on a daily basis -- young and old. Consequentially, there is reason to believe that prayers are pretty popular with people. People pray, bow to the Divine, surrender to the Ultimate Power ... and then place demands at the altar! So, prayer is very much relevant in people’s lives, as anybody would see and say. How, then, can one ask why the prayer has gone missing from our lives ? This question does need a rather elaborate consideration. For, prayer is ..

Appeal to parents: VII Please protect yourchildren fromoverwhelming rot

THE strongest reason to write this serial appeal to parents is that they must not lose sight of their responsibility towards not just their wards but also towards the larger society -- so that the youngsters turn out to be good citizens and healthy personalities living a happy and meaningful life. Many parents may tend to think that they know how to care for their children. Yet, they need to be told that parenting is not a touch-and-go affair, but a full-time commitment to ensuring that the off-springs ..

Appeal to parents: VI Please protect yourchildren fromoverwhelming rot

 By Vijay Phanshikar :  “Sir, there is a lot of stuff on social media speaking of India as a backward society in the past now making progress because of western education and technology. Is that really so? But there also are many feat..

Appeal to parents: V Please protect yourchildren fromoverwhelming rot

“My daughter just refuses to listen to us. Whenever some family elder tries to tell her a word or two of wisdom, she just flares. She shouts. She throws tantrums. For a 19-year-old, such a conduct is not proper, but she just just does not bother. A friend also scared me by telling that he saw my daughter smoking cigarette. I was shocked beyond words. When I confronted her, my daughter about that, she threw a tantrum that really scared daylight out of me. She said, she was free to behave the manner ..

Appeal to parents: IV Please protect your children from overwhelming rot

MAY we not miss the reality of the silent invasion on the minds of our youngsters via the digital route. Among the themes that are fed into their unsuspecting minds and innocents heads, one is that India of the past was a land of snake-charmers and cheap magicians. Another nuance of that ugly feeding is that the Indian society was largely dominated by ignorance and unscientific beliefs that have kept the country backward through times. An extension of this is that Indians knew no science and the ..

Appeal to parents: III Please protect yourchildren fromoverwhelming rot

BY NOW, no doubt is left behind about what kind of invasion is taking place of the mental space of our youngsters. Every kind of negativism is being fed into their impressionable minds -- resulting into some terribly shocking ideas germinating in their heads and taking roots and growing menacingly. Naturally, our youngsters are popping up ideas and behaviours that shock anybody out of wits. This is making it compulsory for the larger society to start devising ways and means to counter the dirty narrative ..

Appeal to parents: I Please protect yourchildren from overwhelming rot

By Vijay Phanshikar : THE current realities that we appear to be missing to notice have triggered this appeal. A major part of these realities refers to our young generation. Hence this appeal -- to parents of children in the age-bracket of 18-..