As the century turned, so did our lives... it has been a decade of frenetic change. »

Relationships between children in a family are not a given. They need to be worked on… »

Why do even ‘liberal' parents sometimes find it difficult to accept that their children may not want to get married at all? »

Adult survivors of child sexual abuse can overcome the trauma with help. »

Shakespeare’s famous Moor (the one that loved ‘not wisely, but too well’) could at least blame the machinations of the malevolent Iago for his obsessional suspicion of the fair an... »

Violence has no place in a partnership of equals… »

Writing in The Hindu in 2001, I had concluded a piece titled, ‘Who, me? An addict?’ by saying that many of us were “addicts waiting to happen.” The main thesis of the... »

The theory of multiple intelligences opens the way for the belief that we may all be equally intelligent in different ways… Gardener’s theory sounds very plausible, attractive... »

In the profusion of relationships that thrive today, the good old platonic one is still a viable option. One that needs a bit of work… »

The most authentic reason is that they are perfectly happy as they are, and do not feel the need to have a child… »