Rejuvenate yourself, mentally and physically, at the end of each day with at least seven hours of rest. As deadlines for project submissions or exam time loom near, students are known to stay up past their usual bedtimes and force…
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Rejuvenate yourself, mentally and physically, at the end of each day with at least seven hours of rest. As deadlines for project submissions or exam time loom near, students are known to stay up past their usual bedtimes and force…
Minal works in a high-powered corporate law firm. Though she is competent and doing well on the job, she doesn’t share the gung-ho excitement that her colleagues feel whenever their firm clinches another client or closes a lucrative deal. She…
As the second wave of COVID-19 engulfs the country, anxiety and unease suffuse the air. Instead of doom-scrolling the Net and giving in to hopelessness, I turn to books for succour. What lessons can we glean from lives that catapulted…
Being bored may not be all that bad after all if you know how to channel it positively. Just as life was limping back to a semblance of normalcy, the COVID-19 cases in India started spiking. Though we may have…
In my previous article, I discussed how we can traverse the crests and troughs of life more smoothly if we learn to regulate our emotions. Instead of falling prey to our feelings, we can choose how we respond to them,…
You are walking on the footpath when you trip over a protruding stone that you fail to notice. Fortunately, apart from minor bruises, you aren’t seriously hurt. As you pick yourself up, some passers-by glance at you kindly, making sure…
A car swerves in front and you slam your brakes. Though you are safe after the near-miss, the loud music and the insensitive laughter of the passengers in the car ahead arouse your angry demons. You get down, bang on…
Being proactive and with high self-control can boost one’s wellbeing Avinash is off for his early morning run even before most people’s alarms whirr them awake. He then practices the violin for half an hour, before jumping into the shower….
While old-age homes are mushrooming in metros and smaller cities, most elderly folks continue to maintain ties with their offspring. That the family is the most central and cohesive unit of our Indian social fabric is practically indisputable. Though the…
In the year gone by, we have witnessed seemingly endless streams of suffering. First, multitudes of people in distant lands succumbed to the dreaded Coronavirus. Slowly but surely, those far-off statistics morphed into people we knew, as Covid-19 spread its deadly…
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.