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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA Substance abuse is a medical condition and disorder which involves consuming or taking a certain substance in increasing amounts, experiencing symptoms of withdrawal on the stoppage of substance, or even being unable to reduce or stop the use of the substance. Drug use is directly/ indirectly responsible for 11.8 million deaths every …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA Time. What all we imagine and think, when the word ‘time’ is called out is unending. For someone, time would mean just a reminder on the clock what hour it is; for some it would mean healing from something over a period of time; whereas it could also mean the emotion of …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA How busy is too much busy? This is a question that we must ask ourselves first, and then look around for appropriate people to answer that, for is there even anyone nowadays who isn’t ‘busy’? Being ‘busy’ nowadays is more often than not seen as an indicator of one’s self-worth and status …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA A famous quote by Albert Einstein goes by, “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind”. As a child, I always used to wonder, “God must be so angry at these scientists for revealing His miracles and natural processes”. I had (in fact, still have) this innate voice inside me …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA The 1st of December, this year has ushered in a new dawn in India’s glorious history, and its glistening quest to occupy a vital position in world politics. India assumed the presidency of the G20, taking the baton ahead from the previous host, Indonesia. The G20 or Group of Twenty is an …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA Having been into sports since childhood and being a sports freak and geek, one really knows what it takes to be there and what sports and emotions are all about. The excitement, anger, aggression, agony, pain, the hits and misses, wins and losses, all of them have to be taken into stride. …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA Do you remember how last year, Tuvalu’s foreign minister recorded his speech for the United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, standing knee-deep in seawater? To those who don’t, yes, he did so; to highlight how the low-lying Pacific nation is on the edge of climate breakdown. Just recently, NASA climate scientist broke …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA After a strenuous layover at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the landing at Jakarta brought a sigh of relief, not before I’d known that a long queue at the visa counter would further exhaust me. I thought that’d be it and the fun would soon unravel, but little did I know that I’d encounter …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA Monsoons are very much here, and even before the season sets in, there’s a season that’s always up, 12 months, 24*7, 365 days; the season of potholes on Indian roads. There’s so much that actually goes into the psychological, social, logistical and many other dimensional nuances, when we talk about bad roads …

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BY: PRATHAM GOLCHA SADHUPUL- CHAIL – KUFRI – SOLAN – SHIMLA Reaching the mountains has never been easy, anywhere. That’s the fun in it actually- to make it feel worthwhile to reach the mighty peaks, as humans only value things that are hard-earned. Another such trip of mine was full of travel, adventure and excitement- …

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