by Apurva Purohit | Sep 22, 2014 | BD Voice
Approximately in 1772 BC lived a great Babylonian king in Mesopotamia called Hammurabi. He is famous for having evolved and enacted what is possibly the oldest code of law. Or at least the oldest code which was written down and still exists and has been subsequently...
by Apurva Purohit | Aug 29, 2014 | BD Voice
In the last two weeks I have been party to at least two drawing-room and one corporate conversation around building toilets for girls. So someone I know wants to build 15 toilets this year in municipal schools in his area. Another person wants to send money to an NGO...
by Apurva Purohit | Jul 21, 2014 | BD Voice
In my entire adult life I have struggled to find fashionable stuff to wear which is also comfortable or to put it another way, comfortable wear which is also the high fashion of the moment! The two however don’t seem to coexist anywhere in the world at all! For some...
by Apurva Purohit | Jun 30, 2014 | BD Voice
While bringing us up in the middle class environs of the 70s, our parents paid a lot of emphasis on developing our internal moral compass, ably aided in this by Amar Chitra Katha. So we were told that it was very sinful to tell a lie (learn from Raja Harischandra), it...
