What is addiction? Who is an addict? Is it about the alcohol, the cigarettes, the food, the shopping, the device, the app? What does a family member, spouse or friend do? How does one free oneself up from these? Let’s look at it. Definitions of addiction and dependency in general and medical dictionaries talk about […]

It is never too late to redeem yourself and restart afresh. Actor-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt is penning down a book about her battle with alcoholism and how she overcame it. The book is slated to come our early next year. “I would like to emphasise that it is not an autobiography. At 45, I am too […]

A 65-year-old woman may get some reprieve for killing her alcoholic son. Her 47-year-old son was trying to rape his 19-year-old daughter when she hacked him with a sickle.  His mother had tried to stop him. But he threw her aside and began assaulting his daughter with a piece of wood. The woman then hacked her son […]