Your emotional health, your choice
True Love – Just a Currency for Joy Sri Aravind Bhashyam, Professor of Civil Engineering, Christ University, Bangalore This talk at Sri Aurobindo Cultural Trust, Bangalore on July 20,2019 was very special. Starting with the title of the talk, which raised a sense of mystery to the speaker, an eminent Civil Engineer speaking philosophy. What... Continue Reading →
TOWARDS MINDFULNESS Ashwin Shanker (with Kind Permission) THE HINDU, June 23, 2019 A pocket watch is going through a hypnotizing motion. It happened during yet another terrible day at work. I was frustrated with my boss, who simply wouldn’t listen to my suggestions to better the code we were cracking, and would favour my partner’s... Continue Reading →
Death, Dying and Psychological Health Dr.Amanpreet Kaur, Ph.D., M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross once stated in one of her books, “Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you have lived.” The quote looks astounding on surface level, however; to practice... Continue Reading →
How close we really are to the edge of the precipice Thomas Paul THE HINDU, June 02, 2019 (with kind permission-emphasis added) There’s no gainsaying what the next hour or second may bring; it will take just a moment for the bottom to fall out November 23, 1956. My date of birth was eventful, not... Continue Reading →
Resurgence Ms. Bhushan Sharma My father suffered a massive brain stroke, hemorrhage, (at the age of seventy) and he was in coma for more than a month. As per doctor’s advice, we brought him home. The spill was acute and that may or may not recover or at least would take a long time as... Continue Reading →
Geetha: an unfinished story……… The last conversation I had with Geetha was on Sunday January 27,2019. She was still in Hyderabad. She was responding to the THE HINDU, interview of Ms. Manisha Koirala. I had suggested that she has a STORY TO TELL THE WORLD … a story of triumph over adversity. I predicted that... Continue Reading →
A JOURNEY OF FAITH-Dr. R. Meganathan Everything seems to be going right until our son Vinod called us one evening in May 1998 and said he was not feeling well. We thought he was stressed due to the exams, he was going through. He was then studying in Wichita, Kansas. The next morning he broke... Continue Reading →
Breast Cancer Inspired Me to Live My Life- Dr.Sudesh Mukhopadyaya Year 2016 brought me a number of challenges; may be these started before that. I did not realize under the guiding hand of the Supreme Power. After superannuation, I got my new knees in 2013. Was learning to walk when was blessed with a job... Continue Reading →
FINDING MEANING IN LIFE BY CARING- Prof. Sanjukta Bhattacharya Life is challenging because it is never static. A beautiful dream story of happy family life and achieving the very pinnacle in the work sphere, shatters when out of the blue, one partner faces the inevitable and leaves the other, lonely and bewildered, for the hereafter.... Continue Reading →
In situations of uncertainties of life, many factors can make a difference. Here is a beautiful story by the master story teller, O Henry which illustrate how hope of looking at the falling leaves and the not falling leaf gives a chance to recover. There is also a hidden message of sacrifice. Caregivers are so... Continue Reading →
Living with cancer 