Some couples are agreeing to open their relationship to other sexual partners. We know the “benefits.” But what are the costs? You love her, you really do, but sometimes you’d like some . . . variety. Perhaps a different body type. Or maybe you’d like to see or hear how someone else responds to your moves. It’s tough to suppress …

Hell-bent on entering Britain, a group of young Punjabis board a container truck in Amritsar for their tough journey to jobs and riches. Freezing and bouncing, they arrive in Kabul, Afghanistan. After a brief rest, they trundle to Krasnoyarsk in Russia’s Siberia. From here, the container truck rolls to Russian capital Moscow. The next stop is Belarus capital Minsk, before …

November 30, 1982. Our Delhi-Haridwar bus, with wife Tripta, daughters Aparna and Shachi and me, reached Haridwar around 4, in the afternoon. Though the city is located on the banks of the glacier cold Ganges it felt much warmer compared to the weather we had left in Vancouver. As quickly as I could climb the roof top of the bus, …

Some relationships are incredibly pernicious. We often develop relationships out of convenience, without considering the traits necessary to build a successful bond with another person—important traits like unwavering support and shared trust and loving encouragement. When a relationship is birthed out of convenience or proximity or chemistry alone, it is bound to fail. We need more than a person’s physical …

One of the most heinous forms of crime – teenage prostitution has pierced its fangs deep into the heart of Indian society. Amid the glitz and grandeur of the Indian streets, howls the withering childhood of 1.2 million children who are forced into the quicksand of prostitution. A petrifying story of the degradation of humanity, teenage prostitution in India is …

by Fariha Roisin On a recent trip to visit my dad in Abu Dhabi, where he now works and lives, I was reprimanded for what I wearing — a loose boatneck tee with baggy printed pants — not by a stranger, but by my father. I hadn’t seen him for years, and had thought we were past this stage. I …

The Indian singer you’ll love listening to (and looking at) Shashaa started singing at the age of five, and never imaged she would have a career as a Bollywood Playback singer, singing the old Hindi melodies of Mohd. Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar over a local radio channel, Radio Rim Jhim, in the well-received show ‘Aapki Pasand, Aapki Zubaani’, hosted by …

Tips for Preventing & Handling Disaster & Distress on the Job Disgruntled employees, workplace bullies, active-shooter situations, illegal drug use, ex-spouses and dissatisfied clients – all can be found in a random sampling of the 2 million people affected by workplace violence in the United States, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. “Of course, of the millions of …