About the Author: Shobhika Puri

My Kashmir Holiday

I am proud of our government for taking some decisive steps about Jammu and Kashmir and moving beyond the usual ‘discussions’ and ‘mediations’. Hopefully, the government is able to solve the hitherto ‘unsolvable’ problem.

Doctors Are Humans First

The recent incident in Kolkata where the junior doctors of a government hospital were attacked by the angry relatives of a patient who died, was not the first or a one-off case. It’s a travesty that even after the doctors going on a strike against it, there have been more incidents of violence against doctors.

Everybody is talking about the winners and losers of the just concluded general elections. However, nobody is talking about NOTA that got a significant vote share. Interestingly, not many people know that NOTA does not have any bearing on the vote counting. It is merely a feedback mechanism to register a voter’s disappointment.

For the past few years, the Class X and Class XII results have been surprising me because the number of people scoring 90 per cent or above has been increasing steadily. Is it that the students these days are more studious or intelligent, or have the evaluators become liberal while marking?

The Amethi-Wayanad Strategy

It’s been quite some time since Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination papers from Wayanad and Amethi. However, the controversy of him not contesting exclusively from Amethi, the Gandhi-family stronghold, has still not died down.