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While disrupting and upending lives across the planet, the pandemic revealed our almost pan-human tendency to want to exercise control over our daily lives. The sudden lockdowns sabotaged our plans, both significant and small. Whether it was going to the…
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” “Seeing is believing.” “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.” Though cliched, these statements do convey some hard truths about our visual faculty. However, as most of us take the act of…
“I’ve gained vision by losing my sight,” confesses Issac Lidsky in his candid and literally eye-opening memoir, Eyes Wide Open. First diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease, at the age of thirteen, Lidsky’s sight gradually deteriorated during his…
How can one cultivate a healthy body image? Whether it’s an acne-infested face, hips too wide to fit into slim-fit jeans or a shorter than average stature, many of us are dissatisfied with our reflections in the mirror. While we…
Most people would attest that they know someone who lacks self-awareness. The perpetually irritable boss who thinks he is a paragon of patience. The stressed-out parent who thinks her kids are oblivious to her worries as she doesn’t talk about…
Last week, you resolved that you would not react to your teenage son’s emotional volatility. But when he slammed the door with the infamous adolescent declaration of “I hate living here,” your anger boiled over and you gave him an…
No matter how high the stakes, no medal or prize is worth forsaking one’s physical and psychological well-being That Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles had to bow out of the French Open and the Olympic Games respectively due to stress…
Right from a young age, Parul was commended for her fearlessness. When a fierce dog pounced on her, she barely flinched. When the van driver failed to show up, she put her group into an auto and dropped each one…
As India stands devastated in the face of the second Covid wave, many corporates have stepped up to offer support to the families of staff who die of the dreaded virus. From compensating the full salary of the deceased for…
Just as we were limping back to normalcy, our lives were again put on pause. As the brutal second wave of Covid-19 engulfed India, a collective malaise spread across the country. While many people have had to contend with illness and…
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.