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  Gender Conditioning: Why Is a Woman Still Expected to Do It All? There is a scene repeated in countless homes every evening. A husband and wife return from work. Both are tired. Both have spent the day meeting deadlines, answering calls, solving problems and carrying responsibilities. Perhaps they even earn the same salary and hold equally demanding positions. But the moment they enter the house, equality quietly ends at the door. He changes his clothes, settles onto the sofa and turns on the television. She changes her clothes and walks straight into the kitchen. Before she has even had a glass of water, someone asks: “What is there for dinner?” No one asks whether she needs to sit down. No one wonders who will make her a cup of tea. Why? Because somewhere along the way, we decided that earning money may be a shared responsibility, but running a home is still a woman’s job. The Lessons We Never Realised We Were Teaching Gender conditioning does not suddenly begin after marriage...

  When Education Becomes Screen Time: Are We Protecting Our Children’s Future? A few days ago, I was reading news about schools reconsidering the amount of time young children spend on Chromebooks and other digital devices. It immediately made me pause. Our children wake up, get ready for school and enter classrooms where lessons, worksheets, reading exercises, assessments and even creative activities may now happen on a screen. They return home with online homework. After completing it, many relax by watching television, playing games or using a phone. We keep warning parents to control screen time—but what happens when screen time becomes compulsory in the name of education? How can a parent say, “Enough screen for today,” when the homework is waiting on a Chromebook? The world is beginning to ask questions This concern is not limited to one family, one school or one country. In September 2026, news from Virginia in the United States reported that some school districts were reduc...