Category Archives: Focus

In this lockdown when you cannot travel, cannot go out of your home, cannot party, cannot dance, how long can you read? Or watch TV? To counter inactivity and boredom, you can easily create a meditative situation for yourself and your friends, writes Swami Anand Kul Bhushan.  In this time of global lockdown, you can’t […]

On Saturday, March 14th 2020, a two week shut down was declared for most educational institutions, including mine, and public spaces like malls, in Bangalore, in light of the spread of coronavirus. I currently reside in my college hostel. As soon as the news was received by the public, students in my hostel started booking […]

Here are some alternative forms of healing that Happy Ho offers, with the helps of its trained masters.  Bach Flower Therapy Have you ever wondered if there is more to a flower than its appearance and fragrance? We do too! And so did Dr. Edward Bach, an English homeopath from the 1930s. He believed that […]

Holi commemorates the end of winter and the commencement of spring. In many parts of the country, the festival symbolises the burning of human desires that can inhibit one’s growth. Krishna is a very important figure during the Holi celebrations and it is Krishna who says the following works to Arjuna, on the battlefield of […]

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 […]

Once again India, especially Delhi, the Heart of India, is burning with the Hindu-Muslim riots, and according to the media, both sides are to be blamed. Aljazeera reports:  The violence has so far claimed the lives of at least 37 people and left more than 200 people injured. Both Hindus and Muslims have been victims, […]

From the time I was a child, I was taught in bits and pieces how to be a good guest. When I am invited to someone’s place, I shall dress as they’ve asked the members of the party to, I shall eat only when I’m served, I should talk about matters that the host of […]

For many of us, when we feel scared or anxious or hurt, expressing what we feel to others would be the last option towards making ourselves feel better. So when we have a fight with our partner and we are asked how we are doing, we smile like nothing happened. When we have a meeting […]

It’s in the first few chapters of the ‘Nature of Mind’ by Ram Kishan Chauhan, that I realised how the author had the courage to write exactly what he went through, what he thought and felt; there was not a single pinch of ornamentalization. To some, this might appear as a lack but to me, […]