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Somewhere between the hills and the highway, we lost the ability to do nothing. Here’s what that’s costing us.  There’s a stretch on the road from Bilaspur toward Shimla, just after the hairpin near the Gobind Sagar lake, where the phone signal dies without warning. One bar, flickering, gone. It happens every single time, and…

Before we fought them to wear belled collars and itchy sweaters, cats have always been curious outsiders. Whether it be their moon-eyed stares or the general aloofness of the local goth kid, cats became linked with witches through the imagery of old wise women sitting by the fire, their “familiars” curling up beside them to…

Are we lost or simply prevented from finding our way?  The ‘Lost Generation,’ the cohort that came of age during World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic were not literally lost. These young adults who had experienced quite a lot of trauma before their lives had even begun were disoriented, cynical, and stripped of…

The term stream of consciousness can be defined as a narrative fiction technique that  captures the awareness and consciousness of an individual character through a “flow of myriad  impressions—visual, auditory, physical, associative, and subliminal.” This technique was coined  by psychologist William James in 1890 and soon gave birth to the psychological novel that many  recognize…

Diagnosis Has Excellent Branding  If I asked you to describe a narcissist, you’d probably have an answer before I finished the question.  Ask you to describe a psychologically healthy person with the same precision and something curious happens.  The vocabulary evaporates.  We know every red flag.  Green ones remain strangely elusive.  This may be one…

“Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho, kya gham hai jisko chhupa rahe ho?” It is often remembered as a song about hidden sorrow, but I have come to hear it as an ethical invitation to look beyond appearances. Few lines in popular culture ask a more courageous question. Not Who are you? But What is…

Serving in the Corps was, for me, a masterclass on isolation and its consequences.  The average person has their fair share of assumptions to make whenever they meet someone in service. There’s a degree of removal which allows a certain mythos to exist, helped by the glamorised (and often politically-charged) branding plastered throughout entertainment. Though…

Introduction Human beings never choose the circumstances into which they are born. We do not choose our parents, our genes, our natural abilities, or even the environment that first shapes us. Some people are born with extraordinary intelligence, musical ability, athleticism, or creativity, while others inherit different strengths and weaknesses. Scientific research suggests that these…