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Sunday Editorial – Thoughts on how to bring up our boys
Sunday Editorial
Thoughts on how to bring up our boys
By Ratnakar Tripathy
Way back, soon after college I once got the shock of my life when I found a senior friend, a working professional from Bihar who could not make himself a cup of tea. This was revealed when I asked him to get some tea ready while I brought some breakfast goodies from the downstairs grocer. I came back only to discover a sheepish young man meditating over a pan filled with water – it turned out he couldn’t even light the stove and was afraid the gas cylinder would burst if he tried lighting it in my absence. When...