For education to be impactful, children need to appreciate the value of the tasks they engage in, for their own sake. Rather than embracing a utilitarian outlook, wherein schooling is prized only as a means to get admitted into college…
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,…
While thinking, in a deep sense, should be pivotal to education, our schools still prioritise rote or mechanistic learning. Though most Indian Boards now include HOTS or questions that require “higher-order thinking” wherein students have to analyse,..
In the last of a tetrad of articles on promoting creativity in children, I elaborate on the positives of play. Just as painting, playing the piano and participating in pantomimes can endow children with various skills and dispositions, good, old-fashioned…
For Zoom meetings, most of your colleagues dress down. You, however, are more formally turned out, a dab of lipstick and mascara included. Should you tone down your make-up and appear more casual so that you look more like your…
A look into the age-old question of which is better: printed books or e-books? The first time I bought an e-book on Kindle, I was enchanted by the instantness of the transaction. While I have shifted more towards e-books, mainly…
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…
