How to Handle Success?
To most of us, success hits us on the head like a mighty blow. We are not hurt but we reach a high, which is close to insanity. We...
The Art of Public Speaking
We are in a world now where communication skills are the most important competency that will make or break your career. And public speaking is part of this competency....
What are the Global Ramifications of the Racial Tension in the Kandy District of Sri Lanka?
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s 11-day tenure as the law and order minister was marred by racial tension in the central district of Kandy. Muslim-owned businesses and religious sites came under attack...
Will the Union Budget Respond to the Demand of the Civil Society for a Universal Pension Scheme?
The letter written on behalf of the Pension Parishad, a network of 100 civil society organisations in it, is in response to recent reports indicating that the Centre was...
Three Ways to Tutor Your Brain to Cease Disquietude
Worrying in its severe form leads to depression as zeroing into events that we cannot actually choose to take action to help prepare for whatever one is overly thinking...
Lonely in a Crowd
Loneliness has become an epidemic in Hong Kong. A recent study of working persons found that about a quarter of people in Hong Kong showed some form of anxiety....
Sexual Harassment at Workplace: 20 Years after Vishaka Verdict
The Apex Court, for the first time, laid down a volume of guidelines and principles, apparently to be followed by all employment institutions state governed or private. In 2013,...
Vipassana: A Logical Meditative Process through Self-observation
Broadly, ‘mindfulness’ defines any sort of meditation. Vipassana means ‘to see things as they really are’. It is a logical process through self-observation. This form of meditation was discovered...
A Child murdered in Ryan; Tom Alter Fights Cancer; Sasikala Ousted; Blast in London Tube and Rohingya Refugees
This week, Shail recasts five major events in the week that was in verse. A seven-year-child was brutally murdered in Ryan International School, Gurgaon, actor Tom Alter fights Cancer,...
A Soliloquy of a Grandmother
Sunday (September 10) was Grandparents’ Day. Shernaz recounts the playfulness and bickering with her two adorable grandchildren. She worries about the world that they would inherit. From media reports...