Recently Junior Doctors’ strike is hugging headlines, perhaps for all the wrong reasons. While pay, long unsocial hours draw all the attention, another important, emotion draining reason has been missing from the equation. Perhaps it affects...

Kumudini Valambia’s question “Is there life after death?” is inspiring. Subject is paranormal/ parapsychological. Epicurus propounded “Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die”. Indians have proverb “world drowns on death.” Modern science...

As the saying goes, “a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down”. We used to bribe our children with a spoonful of sugar (or sweets) as a treat after taking their medicine.

Lord Lucas’s published ‘The Good School Guide’ revealed such remarkable improvement in the performance of State Schools, that hundreds of independent schools risk closing down. This is extremely good news for the parents of working class, middle...

There is an intense but civilized and scientific discussion on internet, among devoted, learned and intellectual members of Hindu community. While vast majority are against “Open Air Cremation” (OAC), mainly for practical reasons, there is tiny...

Russia has done more than the US and it's cronies in Syria etc and also mission to "MARS " when in need?

Further to the ‘Save Gujarati’ Open Letter campaign initiated by Gareth Thomas MP, we at the Consortium of Gujarati Schools wish to state that we welcome support from all persons, groups and organisations regardless of their political orientation.

Reservation is curse of modern India, as every Tom, Dick and Harry would like to climb band-wagon for easy ride to political, educational and financial advancement. Fiduciary activists are in the pockets of political parties, mainly Congress...

Recently I came across interesting article where it stated that six out of ten believe they were contacted by their departed partners. As we live in modern, scientific world where most do not believe even in God and churches are practically...

Being a life long reader of GS/AV, I have been reading AV, especially "Your Voice" now "Reader Voice" column for a long time, although I put pen to paper on rare occasion. Bhupendrabhai was the mainstay of AV for considerable time, when it was...