The soothing power of music is well known across mankind. Since it helps us connect to our emotions in a unique manner, it has proven itself to be an effective tool for stress management. Plugging in your headphones or putting on the speakers or sitting in an auditorium can be a source of music that […]
Author Archives: nandita
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How to come back to the real from the virtual, one step at a time?
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Human happiness comes in different shapes and sizes, like candies at the store. American Psychologist Martin Seligman proposes that there are three types of happiness
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There are so many things one can do in the night apart from actually doing what the dark has been created for – sleep.
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“You know the nightmare in schizophrenia is not knowing what’s true. Imagine, if you had suddenly learned that the people and the places and the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?” (Dr. Rosen to Alicia, in the movie ‘A […]
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In the previous part, we defined learned helplessness – it occurs when an animal is repeatedly subjected to aversive stimuli, that it cannot avoid or escape. Eventually, the animal will stop making any efforts to improve the situation, making itself believe that it has no control over the stimulus. Even when the animal is presented […]
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In the last part of this series, we shall be talking about the last baby of the documentary – Hattie – and then concluding the series! Hattie. This urban newborn is introduced to us embraced in the arms of her father. Next we see her being read to by her mother. Hattie is a city […]
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Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, writer and political activist, and one of the central figures in 20th Century French philosophy. He is best known as the main figurehead of the Existential movement. In his writing, ‘The Work of Art’, Sartre first establishes clearly that he does not wish to deal with the problem of […]
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Nandita Kochar When things do not go as we planned, we try our best to change the situation for the better. At least that’s what we like to tell ourselves. However, research on learned helplessness shows that if we believe that the situation is out of our control then we give up and simply accept […]
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Please read Part I before jumping into this one. In this part, we shall be talking about the next two babies – Mari and Bayar. Bayar. We are introduced to Bayar (from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia) while he is still inside his mother’s womb who herself is engaged in guided exercises, just before giving birth to the […]