Two-year wait for surgery

In 2017, around June or July, I came to Delhi from Bihar. Since then I have been living here. My daughter Jyoti, now 12-year-old, is suffering from a spinal deformity for five years now. She is not able to walk, neither sit for long. She cannot even attend school, as we fear she might fall […]

Capitalis by Manjul

The ultimate

With Emiliano Sala’s apparent death after his plane to Cardiff crashed on the English Channel, football lost an extremely promising striker who had potential to reach the top levels of the game Since January 21, the global footballing community has been shaken by the still-developing and tragic news of one of the most recent and […]

Misogynist teacher

Students are protesting against Jamia’s Fine Arts Department head and demanding his removal In the session of 2016-17 when I first saw Mr Hafeez Ahmad shouting at two woman students in the Fine Arts Department, I didn’t make much of it. I was a student there, taking evening classes for a course on calligraphy in […]

Down a scary road

I started my training in the paediatrics department in Maulana Azad Medical College a few months back. My duty hours vary largely — sometimes it can be from afternoon to midnight and sometimes from morning to evening. During the night shifts, my work gets over at around 1 am or so. At that time, coming […]

Tread carefully with a keto diet

Keto has become a diet buzzword and if you too are planning to dive into it to accomplish your fitness goals, you should take a look at its possible risks and benefits Ketogenic diet is a high fat, adequate protein, low carb diet that forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. It dates […]

SILENCE, COURT IN SESSION

The streets of Delhi are fraught with traffic violations and unabashed rule breaking. In 2018, 64 lakh challans were issued by the Delhi Police for people breaking traffic rules — which amounts to 17,357 cases per day. An earlier report by Patriot revealed that for the lack of proper infrastructure and understaffed traffic police (one […]

‘Frequency of local trains really low’

I take a local train for Tilak Bridge from Old Faridabad to go to office. Since my father used to travel by the local train and not by metro, he encouraged me to take the train as it is cheaper. I was sceptical at first because I used to commute via local train during my […]