Back to resources

When they’re 64 – Today’s parents are not sure they will get their children’s support in their old age

Others | May 15, 1993

have two children, but they have not been brought into this world with the hope that they will look after me when I grow old.” Name: Monica Thapar. Age: 36 years. Family status: Divorced. Job: Works for INTACH. Residence: Delhi.

View PDF

More like this

Others

Who's a Nuclear Threat

Recent assurances by Secretary of State George Shultz to the Indian government regarding U.S. supplying spare parts to the Tarapur nuclear plant have generated misdirected reaction in this country. Stripped of their politicization the facts are these: By virtue of a 1963 Indo-U.S. agreement, the U.S. has a contractual obligation to supply the Tarapur plant […]
Sep 21, 1983 | Article

Others

Premier Book Shop

Does everyone in Bangalore know how to get to Premier Book Shop? Of course not. You have to get to M.G.Road and then find platform Nine and Three Fourths! Clearly, you have to be a wizard to actually shop at Premier. At a very special lunch at the warm home of Ramchandra Guha and Sujata […]
Jan 1, 2003 | Article

Others

It's hard to be a working mom

We may know Rohini Nilekani as the wife of one of India’s most successful entrepreneurs and for her tireless good works. But was life always this struggle-free? Here she reveals what being a mother means to her and why she fears for her children’s future. View PDF
May 21, 2008 | Personality

Others

Music - Prabha Atre - Low-Key Virtuoso

Dr Prabha Atre, 45, vocalist, is a simple, unassuming person, not given to talking about herself. Watching her go about the modest Mahim flat, worrying about the carpenter not coming in, or the snacks being served right, it is difficult to imagine the same woman on stage at a concert—dignified, even a little aloof, and […]
Mar 21, 1981 | Personality