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“A cloudless day, dusty metro, dilapidated bus-stand roof and an old lady, waiting with her wayward grandson, for their bus”. This could possibly be related to any common scene that happens in everyone's life. Incidentally, I became a part of those hum-drum elements at that bus terminus. The old lady's grandson, irritatingly, was an impish little tot and was totally disquieting. Meanwhile, when the frail legs of the lady drooped her body down to the seat involuntarily, her grandson escaped from her clutches, ran over to the immobile buses and possibly was up to some crazy kiddo-gimmick. Palpably, her tired body was resisting the kid-retrieval operation. Seeing her helpless state, I swaggered onto him, ensnared him up and brought him back to his granny's custody with total dominance. She thanked in a gratitude-rich tone which made me nod for some reason and the child, hopelessly, grimaced to convey the feeling of desperation and bleakness.

Authored By:Mradul Sharma

"There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it" Astrid Lindgren(Swedish author) When I think of corporal punishment (from Latin "corpus" meaning "body"), I am ineluctably led back to the time when i used to be at the receiving end and it is not difficult to recollect the explosive resentment that I ended up stuffed with, which eventually found assorted ways (and let me say, not entirely harmless for myself or others) to vent itself out. And I am bound to think that it has to be no different for any other child. What essentially lies at the heart of physical punishment?

Authored By Mradul Sharma:

Frankly, these days there are a lot of things for a common man to be worried about. You get an idea when you glance through a newspaper any day. Rising prices, corruption, insecurity (crime etc.), environmental or climate issues to name a very few. But there are some things that escape our attention on a general basis but are important and make a huge difference over a period of time. And I am going to talk about one such thing. I want people to notice the type of exposure our children these days are open to. All around.