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Why do some young people shift from ordinary teenage defiance to behaviours that put their health and safety at risk—smoking, marijuana use, hard drugs, or even acts of violence with knives and guns? Defiance itself is not unnatural. It is part of growing up, testing boundaries, and learning independence. But when it hardens into unsocial
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They remembered Vaishali. She climbed mango trees as a girl. She swam in rivers where the current ran strong. She laughed at boys who were afraid to jump. She was never afraid. She married at sixteen. The house was big. The gold was heavy. Her husband had land but no words. Her in-laws had only
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Echoes of an Empty Playhouse– Real Story (By Maq Masi) It began with a whisper, soft as a summer breeze through an open window. “You should get a pet,” my friend murmured, a knowing glint in his eye. My sons, still boys on the cusp of adulthood, erupted in a chorus of joyous shouts, their
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The sun was setting, painting the sky in hues of crimson and gold, as Arvind sat on the verandah of his ancestral home, his eyes lost in the horizon. The sprawling fields before him, cultivated with generations of sweat and dreams, now seemed quiet—too quiet. Inside the house, the faint sounds of dinner being prepared
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Shall I speak or hold my tongue, When truth is bitter, yet unsung? My words of care, they turn away, Yet silence haunts me every day. To see their steps on paths I fear, Hurts my heart, but do they hear? My love compels, my voice must rise, Though met with doubt and clouded eyes.
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