A passenger in a bus takes a look at the people around her…

Good education and career guidance can give young people a flying start by helping them gain the basic knowledge and skills they need to begin navigating their way successfully through career choices and changes. A guidance counsellor allows students to talk about their natural talents and abilities in a comfortable environment, so that sound advice about a student’s future plans can be given.

When making a career choice, take a realistic approach.

By Tara Narayan
CAN anything be as exquisitely beautiful as original pale gold wild honey? I’ve got a couple of bottles of fresh-from-the-beehive honey and this time around it is not my friend David Gower’s wild honey all the way from the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu! My honey is courtesy the Goa Forest Development Corporation […]

IT’S MANGOLICIOUS weather, my dears, and I’m still recovering from the shock of buying these delectable looking afoos mangoes at last weekend’s Konkan Fruit Fest 2012 - only to find them sour at the seed core and several of them suffering from what a learned friend enlightened me was “spongy tissue”. I looked at the cancerous looking spongy tissue fruit and thought perhaps this is because over-educated gentlemen farmers apply too much science to their cultivation of premium fruit! Oh okay, that may or may not be true but I’ve reason to be bugged because it means I can’t relish my Rs 400 per dozen afoos mangoes in my usual traditional blind faith fashion… just wash, roll between the hands and put straight to the mouth with a gentle bite!

There are an increasing number of cases of incest in the state. Goan youth appear to be oblivious.

Manohar Parrikar cannot drag his feet over the medium of instruction indefinitely.

AROUND ten years ago, at 10 pm, a friend of mine was walking home from the bus-stop, a distance of about a kilometre, in Yelahanka, a suburb of India’s IT city, Bangalore, now called Bengaluru. A man touched her cheek as he passed by, leaving her stunned, frightened, humiliated. Shaken, she wept on her way home.

A survey by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration reveals that Goa has the lowest percentage of Muslim students.

And a few more stray thoughts and a few more observations for yet another Sunday. For the Sunday following the week when Dayanand Narvekar was finally removed as President of the Goa Cricket Association. For a Sunday following the week when the Congress does not seem to have learnt any lessons from the debacle it suffered in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Goa. For a Sunday following the week when Manohar Parrikar admitted in an interaction with senior editorial staff of the Indian Express that Godhra had adversely affected the chances of the BJP in the 2002 elections. For the Sunday following the week when no action was taken against the caretakers in the remand home in Merces despite the Chief Minister clearing the file.