Expiry dates: A lookout beyond boxes

The pack of toothpaste lies in front of me as I carefully look for its manufacture date, it has to be safe for use. 'Safe for use' my mind repeats as I stare the mirror, trying to catch my head around the tired reflection. This isn't who I was two years ago for all the …

Bandish Bandits: A review for the love of music

In the very first line, Bandish Bandits deserves all the stars and appreciation and definitely the hype for bringing Classical Indian Music to the forefront not just to showcase it but to adore it, embrace it and make us fall in love with it! You have to look at this story with your heart and …

Pandemic, Powerplay, and Exams: A humour take

I sit in my room crowded by people I have seen too often in the months that have followed, doing the same things, running the same conversations and annoying me similarly with their antics. This is not to say that I am any less annoying or any less disturbing but I speak on my turn …

Towards Self-Love, Longing, and Hope: Crash Landing on you

Honestly, I wanted to write this a long time ago but somehow couldn't get myself to put it all together. Ever since the Korean Drama ended I had real withdrawal symptoms and something the fans like to call Post Cloy depression. I couldn't watch anything for straight two weeks and spent hours listening to the …

We find our own Hope: Learning from the pedagogy in Quarantine

I have been aching to write for such a long time, the number of drafts I have supersedes my total posts on Instagram, which I am currently off. So bear with me, I may have a lot to share. The current pandemic episode and its resultant fear have been troubling almost everybody across the world …

The Struggles of being a Psychology Student

Day in and Day out, the kind of pride I take into my field of choice drags me into confusion and questions which no book has answer to and rests solely on experience and training. The following are a few struggles that according to me need to be taken way more seriously.     Finding …

God Friended Me: Little Review More Realization

It was last exam session when I stumbled upon this American Television Show called God Friended Me. It's not a show you glue up to or feel the adrenaline rush about, it is kind a show that lets you feel and then hold back on that emotion. I wouldn't say it has the best of …

Day 4: Advancement

It's a big world, with everyone trying to run forward and forward which is a good thing if you aren't forgetting your starting point or making sure you know the path, or may be just walking or may be running for yourself and not running against others. Too many clauses for a first paragraph right. …

Day 3: Making it possible or letting it happen

In everyday life, we often put ourselves on this cliffhanger - should we make it possible, should we go out their in the field and just try harder and harder, until it hurts, until we truly threaten our respect, until it just pours down. After all, that's what great scientists did, that's how relationships work(may …

Day 2: Appreciation

In one of the very well established psychological models of character strengths, appreciation of beauty and excellence finds its way into the grid which tell you how important it is to not just observe but also to appreciate things around you, it's more like adding a tincture in your glasses. So, one of the aim …