चाेखाे माया डट कम: जन्मभूमि नेपाल र नेपालीहरूमा समर्पित

  Devendra Gautam The Constitution of Nepal, 2015 ‘guarantees’ gender equality like several other laws of this land do in a typical organic fashion.      Article 38 of our charter states that no physical, mental, sexual and psychological or other any type of violent act or exploitation shall be inflicted against women on the ground of religious, social, cultural traditions, practices or on any other grounds. What’s more, clause 4 of the article grants women the right to participate in all bodies of the State on the basis of the principle of proportional inclusion, clause 5 the the right to obtain special opportunity in education, health, employment and social security on the basis of positive discrimination while clause 6 gives the spouse the equal right to property and family affairs.    In terms of ‘guaranteeing’ respect and dignity for women, our ancient scriptures do not lag much behind our contemporary laws. A pedestrian’s translation of an oft-qu...

  As your hair grays, does your mind rust? Well, you have the luxury of choosing to not split hair over the graying and the rusting.  Or you can ponder over one of the phenomena to begin with—graying—given that this thing called the brain is much too hard to understand.    A general tendency is to blame stress for graying, premature graying in particular.    But Robert H. Shmerling, MD , Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing, goes much beyond while answering the question: Why does hair turn gray?  In his blog at the homepage of Harvard Health Publishing, Shmerling compares the photos of Barack Obama taken before he ran for US presidency and after he left office, noting that he had “far more gray than brown” after he left office.    Most of the 8.2 billion homo sapiens (including this scribe) do not have much of a job (so very stressful, isn’t it?), leave alone a job a...