Karina Pandya

A brain injury can lead to significant and profound injuries that most likely will last us for the rest of our lifetimes. However, there are four main categories of the effects of the brain injury and its very easy to take these abilities for granted but they involve complex skills and involve many different parts of the brain.   However, the more severe the brain injury is the more pronounced the long-term effects will be and the individual is most likely to suffer from complex long-term problems that will affect their relationships, their ability to lead an independent life and also affect their personality.   Right from Cognitive effects, to coma and reduced awareness states, to communication problems, executive dysfunctions, emotional effects, hormonal imbalances, physical effects, post-traumatic amnesia, behavioural effects and   1)     Cognitive Affects – This is the area affecting how a person ‘thinks’ ‘remembers’ and learns; basically ...

Rosaceae , the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. Have you ever wondered what kind of lives that we have been born into? Are they OURS, or do they belong to some distant past and are we busy unraveling the mystery behind this? For most of my life, it’s been a jigsaw puzzle, figuring this relation and that reason or where I truly belong. And then the realisation falls upon us that we have to live in the present; think about the NOW, as cruel as it may sound move on from the past. But, we belong to kin, we belong to a clan; how can we ever let it go and leave behind this mask. A family is a family and we truly do belong to our ancestors or our forefathers or someone from before. But, how often do we take our families for granted and put off today till tomorrow Not realising that tomorrow is not even certain and your jobs are not the ones at...

The society is full of ambitious, agile and nimble new generations of talent that is constantly emerging in the industry. It is hard to avoid Facebook posts, tweet, speeches, presentations and even the “war of talent” that is currently going on.  Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone, Kangana Ranaut, Anoushka Sharma, Shraddha Kapoor, Diana Penty, Parineeti Chopra, Jacqueline Fernandez and Sonam Kapoor. Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Imran Khan, Emraan Hashmi, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan, Hritikh Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan, etc.         Love is surely in the air, and its not surprising that many charity fundraisers make use of Valentines Day as a hook to engage with donors.  Does it always have to be about a reciprocal relationship, in a nation that is sadly plagued by social evils even till date such as poverty, illiteracy and other social evils?  Through engagement, reciprocity, relationship fundraising an...

Don't you think we live in a culture of extremes, where it’s very difficult to see the gray or even FIND the MIDDLE ground? Its easy to look after our PHYSICAL health or AT LEAST TRY to when you go to the gym; but when it comes to our mental health its not quite the same; is it? Many things are often taken for granted and overlooked. Our mental health is a combination of our psychological, emotional and social well being, and not to forgot diet! Most often we are exposed to one of the two treatments: traditional medicine or alternative medicine. However, psychiatric medicine have only surged despite the potentially life altering side effects.  It is an extremely important component of our health at each and every stage of our lives, right from childhood to adolescence and to adulthood. It impacts how we feel, think and behave (act). It is important to be emotionally healthy too so that you can be in control of feelings, thoughts and beh...