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BELCHING COWS & GREEN HOUSE GAS

Posted in diseases, environment, food for thought, from TOI, pets, research, society, tagged , , , , , , , on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The following is the letter to the TOI editor that mr vidyaranya bellur emailed, but unfortunately the letter was highly edited and published on 28/01/08. since he had emailed a copy to me, i thought of publishing it here unedited so that it might interest my readers and they may write their comments on this:
 
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WORLD AIDS DAY

Posted in HIV/AIDS, counselling, diseases, education, empowering, food for thought, medical science, our mind, people, science, sexuality, society, spreading awareness, tagged , , , , , on December 1, 2007 | Comments Off

December 1st is celebrated as World AIDS Day to spread awareness to people about the disease AIDS and how people can help prevent it, how we can reduce the stigma attached to it through disseminating information.I thought I would take this opportunity to explain to my readers what exactly AIDS is and what HIV is [...]

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Sex Education

Posted in HIV/AIDS, children, counselling, diseases, education, food for thought, life skills, parenting, people, psychology, sexuality, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »

There seems to be lot of confusion in everybody’s mind about imparting sex education at schools and colleges. By the term ‘sex education’ people seem to think it is all about ‘sexual intercourse’ education! No, it is not that. Sex education is all about imparting knowledge on human sexuality. Sexuality is the femaleness and the [...]

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Pre-marital sex, virginity – a responsibility more than a virtue?

Posted in counselling, diseases, education, empowering, food for thought, habits n addictions, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, sexuality, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 20, 2007 | 33 Comments »

this was my comment on premarital sex and virginity on voices of youth page (i have made slight alteration)
http://www.unicef.org/voy/discussions/showthread.php?p=49835#post49835
virginity before marriage is insisted keeping in mind the gulliblity of the young and the immature. in the name of progressiveness many young people throw all care and responsibility to the wind and have casual sex [...]

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Epilepsy

Posted in Epilepsy, children, counselling, disability, diseases, education, empowering, food for thought, medical science, our mind, people, psychology, science, society, spreading awareness, stigma, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »

yesterday was world epilepsy day – a day to bring awareness to public about epilepsy, a neurological disorder wherein there is a disturbance in the normal electrical activity of the brain. this disturbance causes seizures (‘fits’ in lay person’s language). it may affect the consciousness or the behaviour or the sensory perception of the affected [...]

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