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Making a baby is a momentous decision in the life of would-be parents. It is therefore not without reason that nowadays people talk about planning for a baby. Planning, per se, includes the entire range of activities from financial to emotional. Good planning and execution of such ideas can be the best gift for the child to come. Financial Handholding Just as parents hand-hold children to guide them through their first few steps, let the following discussion act as a financial handholding process for planning the financial aspects of child bearing and rearing. Get a Health Insurance Cover Medical costs are perpetually on the rise; hence a good medical insurance cover is something that would-be parents need to actively consider. It is of utmost importance that both the parents are healthy and fit to bring the child into this world. Medical checkups are a necessity at every stage from pre-natal to post natal phase and later, hence it is a wise decision to op...

The society is in a state of constant flux. External environmental factors have a direct impact on trends and culture at any point in time and the society moulds itself accordingly. The rising trend of suicide among the youth is one such churning which is taking place in the society right now. Let us inspect the phenomenon to understand what lies beneath. It was a quiet evening at my friend’s place when her daughter arrived from college looking distressed. All of us noticed her demeanour and sat up to enquire. After keeping quiet for some time she came out with the truth. “My lab partner has committed suicide”, she conveyed. My friend looked distressed as well; she too had known her daughter’s lab partner. Over the next few days the news was all over the media with everyone, from police to journalists and even the victim’s friends speculating about the likely reason for committing suicide. A lot of reasons emerged, from unrequited love, broken relationship a...

We love to have it packaged. From drinking water to holiday and hospital treatment, everything comes in a package nowadays. Perhaps packaging gives us the sense of contentment; receiving something in an organised manner is so much more convenient. It is always appealing when I come across things, which are presented well, even then, this one had me stumped- Packaged Puja. Yes you read it right, the Puja package is here.   Prayers, worship, offering of puja and associated rituals require a lot of material inputs besides pure devotion. To perform Hindu pujas exactly as per the scriptures ordain it to be, one needs to buy different items to be used during the puja offering, and also have the sholakas and mantras (prayers in Sanskrit language) ready –either by heart or by reading out from a booklet while offering the puja. This is where a specific puja package comes in handy. The Puja package comprises an attractively packaged Puja Box (you can now perform pujas out of the...