How many times have you offered your seat to someone in need or made food for the sick and the needy or helped out your friend during tough times or prayed to God for someone else’s well-being and health? Prosocial behaviour or helping someone can take many forms – from performing acts of bravery to […]
Author Archives: nandita
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Let’s get to it right away! Zeus The king of the Greek Gods, Zeus was the most powerful of the lot. Being the God of the sky and thunder, he had the magnificent ability to throw lightning bolts. His winged horse carried the bolts and he trained an eagle to retrieve them. Zeus also had […]
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Art, like morality,springs from a sense of deficiency in the existing state of things and it makes an attempt to rectify this deficiency by providing us with a representation of an ideal world. The achieving of this ideal world is what all of us must strive towards. One of the most important aspects of art […]
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Sometimes, we catch sight of ourselves in the mirror. And there it is, the hairy face, the acne, the pointy nose but most importantly that familiar needy expression. It is during such moments that we feel that we have miserably failed at running away from our monster self. We are destined to be a hideous […]
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A man was standing on a hilltop. Three other men gazed at him from below and wondered what he’s doing up there, all by himself. One of them said that he knew that man and that this man has a cow. So he must have lost the cow and is now looking for it from […]
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In his 1992 book, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, Gary Chapman outlines the five ways to express and experience love. He calls these ways ‘languages of love’. Let’s look at each one of them! Words of Affirmation Solomon, author of ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, “The tongue has […]
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The schools of Indian Philosophy can be broadly divided broadly into two classes, namely, orthodox (astika) and heterodox (nastika). Under the first group fall the six philosophical systems of Mimamsa, Vedanta, Sankhya, Yoga, Nyaya and Vaisheshika. These schools belong to this category not because they believe in God but because they believe in the authority […]
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Whether the day has just started with its roughness or the bad is finally over, there is someone who can always make things better – Jesus. Millions have turned towards him in times so rough that the heart needs some hope and millions continue turning in his direction to this day. Here are five ways […]
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“Be in the moment” – no matter which part of the world we live in, all of us have heard this phrase at some point in our lives. If we are sad about leaving our school, we must fully immerse ourselves in that sadness. If we are happy about our kid graduating, we must let […]
Positive Psychology
What Are The Psychological Needs Of Our Seniors? It’s Important To Know This During This Pandemic!
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Late adulthood is the stage of human development which usually begins at the age of 60 and ends with one’s death. Considering this is the last phase of one’s life, an in-depth understanding is required so that the society can generate efforts to make this part more fulfilling and meaningful. It is not only the […]