Only love is real: The story of soulmates reunited
Shubhra Pandey Death! The truth of the impermanence of life. Is it the end of everything tangible or just a transition. The answer depends on how we embrace it. Is it just a biological end of one’s being or is it the soul moving from one body to another? “I am certain that I have […]
Every sunrise is a new beginning
Gunjan Pande Morrie Schwartz wasn’t my Social Psychology professor. But this spring break 2022, he became my life coach, when I read his student Mitch Albom’s beautiful relationship chronicle Tuesdays With Morrie (TWM), as part of the bucket list stuff I’d lined up to do once my son left for college in February. The ‘to-do’ […]
Embracing change
Navraj Bhatia The only constant in life is change, goes the adage. Fearful, unexpected, unavoidable. Yet we don’t count it among the many expectations in life. Things would be simpler if we did. Human beings have a complicated relationship with change. While it is both inevitable and essential for growth, change can also be deeply uncomfortable […]
“Mental health is vital to everyone, even for those who may think it doesn’t matter”
Prachi Raturi Misra An accident doesn’t leave scars only on our bodies but also on our minds. And yet, we need to find the will to go on, fight back, accept and move on. It was a foggy monsoon morning on 3 July 2008 when author Stephen Alter and his artist, sculptor wife Amita Alter […]
Learning to move forward
Anshu Arora What do you tell a young girl who got married in February, whose life partner just flies off in December, straight into the arms of death? What do you tell the parents of a 30-year old young handsome man who has to give fire to the funeral pyre of their own son? Or […]
Seeking new knowledge to scale new horizons
Shital Ravi One of the happy hormones, dopamine, gets released when we do things that make us feel good or after the completion of tasks… What better way to increase dopamine than to take up new learning tasks regularly and taking it to completion to feel rewarded and happy? The ‘Nasadeeya Sukta’ of Rigveda has […]
Sensitivity, an emotion most needed
What does it mean to go through a life changing surgery for breast cancer? What does it take away and what does it leave behind? Seema Kumar I recently read an article which talked about actress Chhavi Mittal calling out the insensitivity of people regarding breast cancer and also talked about people discussing her breasts […]
Learning how to learn – The reboot
Neeti Pherwani What surprised me most about myself, was my ability to absorb new learning in the classroom, assimilate the information and apply it to the fieldwork component that we had alongside. Something that I’ve always admired about the individualistic spirit of the Americans, is their eternal belief in “it’s never too late to start […]
Write away your worries
Maintaining a diary/journaling is a simple yet powerful technique of managing one’s emotions and staying connected with yourself Seema Kumar Keeping a diary was how it was described when I was in my teens. Now they call it journaling. The bottom line is, call it whatever you like but writing down your innermost thoughts is […]
Six yards of mental health awareness
Samindara Sawant Mental health awareness, writing, and sarees … When you have passions as discrete as these three, how do you bring them together? Hashtags to the rescue! When I started my Instagram account a few years ago, I wanted to use it primarily as a platform to spread awareness about mental health, at least […]