Raise a toast to yourself in the New Year: Bounce back from Mental Downs
This New Year, shift your focus from perfection to progress. Celebrate how far you’ve come, even if it doesn’t look like what you originally envisioned. Anandmai Kumar … The New Year is a symbolic time for fresh beginnings, hope, and self-reflection. It’s an opportunity to pause, acknowledge the challenges you’ve faced, and celebrate the strength […]
I will give that credit to myself
‘Setbacks lit the inner fire in me’ From having lost his voice due to Left Vocal Cord Paresis to singing better than he ever did, singer-composer-musician, Shekhar Ravjiani’s story of healing needs to be told Prachi Raturi … “No, no, you had the correct number, how have you been,” he asks with his trademark warmth. […]
Echoes of the Sea
Stepping away from our daily lives helps us appreciate what we have and move beyond the cycle of seeing the glass as half-empty. This trip wasn’t just about discovering a new place, it was about finding and rediscovering myself in a new environment. Sukriti Taneja … They say travelling solo doesn’t mean you are alone, […]
Mental health and well-being is Pivotal
It is crucial to express oneself Prachi Raturi Misra … It is a still monsoon day, the kind where sleep comes uninvited when you are home in a comfortable setting, where time feels like it is either passing too quickly or not moving at all. A few years ago, on days like this a young […]
The Library of Lost Minds
The Library of Lost Minds became a symbol of hope—a place where mental health professionals and patrons alike could find solace in their shared struggles and triumphs. Payel Mukherjee Veda, a young girl with dark hair and piercing eyes loved spending her weekends at the library, The Keepers’ Archive, a place where the walls whispered […]
A Light of Hope and Direction for Teenagers
Arushi Brotia … “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Gustav Jung In a time when teen mental health grabs more attention, Narmeen Shah and Avinash Kumar Gupta’s Building Inner Strength: A Guide to Mental Health for Teenagers, shines as a light of hope and direction. […]
When I finally decided to Kintsugi my soul
This time, the glow up is irreversible. The growth mindset permeates the very DNA. You’re not afraid, standing at the threshold of something new because ‘courage is the root of change—and change is what we’re chemically designed to do. Gunjan Pant Pande … I told her to go where she was celebrated and she went […]
जब हार महसूस करें तो रीस्टार्ट करें
नेहा दुसेजा … दिल जब भी हारा हुआ महसूस करे सिर्फ एक शब्द दोहराओ, रीस्टार्ट! रीस्टार्ट! रीस्टार्ट! क्योंकि हम असफल नहीं होते। या तो हम जीत जाते हैं या सीखते हैं और यह पूरी कशमकश में हम जीना सीखते हैं। बी,एड ख़तम होने के बाद, घर वालों के हिसाब से घर में एक टीचर तैयार […]
On understanding aggression and cultivating reflection
The key then is balance, a mental homeostasis, born off assessment and situational understanding. Gunjan Singh … When meditating on controlling aggression and furthering reflection, we must be mindful that though it seems one naturally leads to the other, they are in fact mutually exclusive. A calm person might not necessarily reflect on their behaviour […]
Into the void: The challenges of life after sport
But there’s something much more than melancholy – a crushing finality, rather – about a cricketer’s premature death, one who has been fêted in a career replete with accomplishment but is unable to come to terms with the hollowness of life in retirement’s wake. Sport can be unforgivingly cruel. Sharad Kohli … Sport mirrors life. […]