Book Review – Red Shark
Do read the Red Shark, a psychological thriller loosely based on Blue Whale. Its truly well researched and beautifully written.
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Karma and Suicide
None of us can change another person’s Karma. All we can do is carry good intentions in our hearts and take actions that are right.
Suicide Prevention – What you can do
All of us are keen to help prevent suicides but we need to learn how to do that. Vichitra Dargan, a brilliant psychologist, shares her tips on how to help.
The Science of Well Being – Yale University
We are all chasing different things in order to find success and happiness, but we rarely stop and ask ourselves if those things do indeed make us happy. We are busy climbing the ladder of what we think as success, only to find out that the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall. Is this what happened to Sushant Singh Rajput ?
Osho Story #1 – “Be Choiceless”
Happy New Year everyone !! This year I turn 50 and I have created a list of 50 different things that I want to do as a celebration of having spent half a century on Earth. One of the things I have listed is to share 50 stories from Osho’s discourses. Osho always shared some … Read more
Incredulous India – Suicide of compassion
Today morning, a father threw a son out of the house in a fit of rage …. It happens all the time, but this time, the son chooses to climb a tree and hang himself :(. Again, it happens. But what doesn’t happen is the father seeing his son alive one moment and the next … Read more
Silently guilty – all of us
Sushmita was a regular woman married to an army officer. Her son was studying engineering in Assam. She committed suicide at the age of 45 in Oct 2012. Pinki is unable to get her 4 year old son into a good school … Someone was living in a flat that he owned and has moved … Read more
The demographic dividend is dying :(
Yesterday morning while having breakfast at the hotel we were staying in, I went to get a spoonful of dried fruits – figs and raisins. The raisins were fine, but the figs had been cut into pieces and sugar had been added !! Chennai has this deep addiction to sugar and now increasingly ghee. Obesity … Read more