Recently we all have been hearing a lot about divorces in the IT industry. Media is giving a lot of coverage to this, saying that divorces in the IT industry is increasing. It is a fact, but it has got nothing to do with IT or the IT work culture. Its all about personal freedom and independence. In western countries the divorce rate is much higher when compared to the Indian rates, and we tend to use that statistics to boast how...

Yesterday, just 2 days after the schools reopened, I had to see a very cruel incident. In a famous school in Trivandrum, outside the principals office 3 high school students were standing. From their looks I could say that they were awaiting something horrible. And then came the principal (A priest) with a cane. Then he started beating them, and that too like they were some kind of animals. After the principal had gone, I enquired...