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Nowadays, a plethora of apps purport to promote mindfulness and meditation. its ironic that the very devices that are fragmenting out attention are also being used to foster focus and calm. However, long before mindfulness and meditation become buzzwords, sages…
First published in The Hindu, 1 Nov 2025 You finally feel you’ve found your tribe in college. Whereas you always felt shy and awkward in school, you are glad that you aren’t the loner who eats lunch by herself in…
First published in The Hindu, 7 Oct 2025 Ironically, as I type these words on writer’s block, I hem and haw. Will I be able to write on this topic? Will it be interesting? Should I pick another theme? As…
First published in The Hindu, 31 Aug 2025 Many of us grow up feeling we’re lacking in one or more ways. Our sense of inadequacy may stem from multiple sources. We may not be smart enough, fit enough, fast enough, funny enough, rich enough, popular enough or…
First published in The Hindu, 2 August 2025 In an earlier piece in this column, I had discussed the pleasures and benefits of rereading a book. While it’s fairly easy to decide whether you want to revisit a book, a…
First published in The Hindu, 1 June 2025 For many of us, an internal judge resides within our heads and is busy from morning to dusk. Both trivial and significant events get parsed into categories of ‘good’ and ‘bad.’ If…
First published in The Hindu, 3 May 2025 The musician bows reverentially as the audience breaks out in deafening applause. As they rise to give him a standing ovation, the maestro bows even lower, as if seeking their blessings….
First published in The Hindu, 5th April 2025 Though schools may not explicitly announce ranks of all students, very early on, children imbibe the message that they’re competing with one another. We can’t blame students for comparing their grades…
First published in The Hindu, 1 Feb 2025 A list of intelligent people who have done foolish things is fairly long. US President, Bill Clinton, having an affair with an intern, former McKinsey MD, Rajat Gupta for engaging in insider…
First published in The Hindu, 4th January 2025 The ubiquity of New Year resolutions suggest that we continually try to better ourselves. Though there is nothing wrong in wanting to refine ourselves, we tend to equate more with better. In…
Aruna Sankaranarayanan is the author of Zero Limits: Things Every 20 Something Should Know. She was the Founder & Director of PRAYATNA, a centre for children with learning difficulties in Bengaluru & Chennai for 22 years.