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With the Class X and Class XII Boards coming up, soon and yet again the entire nation will be covered in a frenzy of marks and question papers and most importantly, test anxiety! But what exactly is this test anxiety? Do we have to tolerate it for our entire student lives? Or is there a […]
In 1945, within months of his liberation from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Viktor Frankl wrote the book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’. The book not only explored the horrors and suffering that Frankl endured in the camps but majorly, it wanted to answer the question: what makes life worthwhile and meaningful? Here are some heart touching lessons from Man’s Search For Meaning’.
What is a documentary? Webster’s dictionary defines documentary as “consisting of documents: written down.” After a better Google search, Wikipedia defines a documentary as “a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspects of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction,education or maintaining a historical record.” Some of the interesting styles in which documentaries reproduce […]
Babies, a 2010 documentary by French director, Thomas Balmès takes up the extremely nuanced task of capturing the delicate development from birth up to the first birthday of four babies, belonging to areas that fan out across the world. The protagonists of the documentary are Ponijao, a boy from the dusty grasslands of Namibia; Bayar, […]
When a relationship ends, we usually find it easy to determine who untied the knots and who wished to tie it back together: the one who found a new partner or a new hobby or apartment and appeared to move on quickly did the dirty job of ending things,without experiencing an ounce of pain and […]
Have you ever wondered why you do not question twice when someone asks you to do something you enjoy doing? And why even getting a glass from the water cooler ten steps away can sound like such an exhausting task? Have you ever wondered why you continue doing certain things your parents told you to […]
Let’s see what the ancient Greek Philosopher had to say about life! 1. Pain Is Essential Aristotle believed that to learn something important, one had to exert both physically and mentally. And many a times, this effort towards learning involved pain. He encouraged us to embrace this pain and see its bright side: the learning. […]
The human smile is a complicated form of expression. It can indicate anything from joy to jealousy. And research now shows that it can even predict outcomes! Here are a few examples: Predicting Earnings According to a study published in 2012 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, happier adults were able […]
We all operate with a certain template of an addict – someone whose house is filled with needles or bongs, someone who has few pennies to live with and chooses to spend even those on substance, someone who has no loved ones around. Such an imagery helps us because it suggests how much distance there […]