Karina Pandya

World Mental Health Day 2019: Suffering from a mental illness has always been stigmatized in the society and those people suffering from these problems have always been frowned upon by the society. Even with awareness mental health mental health is complex. Without awareness, the situation can go completely out of hand! India has first adopted its first Mental Health Act in July 2017. The law protects the rights of mental ill people and also their dignity and privacy through the period of their treatment. However, this Mental Health Act did not make any provisions for mental health awareness at the workplace (as said by  Vibha Setlur, practising advocate in Bengaluru and Co-founder of LegalChap.com) Mental illness is never considered as serious a condition as physical ailments and on this day efforts are made to provide support and show the importance of psychological support which are pragmatic to play a helpful role by people by people who are health staff...

An Error in Emotive and Social Behaviour? Reverberating over the years but blinded over when it comes to evil, this question is one of psychology’s deepest and scariest realities that is never payed attention to.  Are we really just humans who are perhaps mistaken to be kind, sensible, compassionate, sensible, imperfect, reasonable or even good-natured?   Or is there another side that we have been missing out in or completely ignoring; where we are all hard-wired to be selfish, cold-hearted, mean, brutal, and ruthless?  When we exhibit outlandish or perhaps bizarre termed behaviour it is very important to understand what has happened to the structure of our brain from the inside because at the end of the day, we are not just ‘existing beings’ but we are also emotional species!  ‘Cogito, Ergo Sum’ – I think, therefore I am! Remember this Latin phrase that originally appeared in French as ‘Je Pens...

Dr. Seuss ( the enduring legacy of Theodor Geisel) was known for being an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life and other publications where he worked on a number of advertising publications such as FLIT, Standard Oil and a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper. Theodor Seuss Geisel: The Real Dr. Seuss https://youtu.be/Sz4U_fGXH0c via @YouTube   Later on when he published one of his cartoons for the humour magazine, The Judge where he worked as a writer and illustrator, the ad campaign’s catchphrase was “Quick, Henry, the Flit”. This spawned a song and led to more advertising work and also the first foray of writing children’s books.                              A very talented individual, he was also a poet, screenwriter, filmmaker, political cartoonist and children’s author he was known to have worked in the animation and film department of the United States ...

Have you ever felt so hungry only to realise that the hunger won’t go away, it is only your body craving for more, malnutrition of the mind and soul. Loneliness is a psychological parallel to this and it is a time when silence becomes more than comfort. It is an escape and it a refuge for you to constantly run to where you feel there is no one to judge you and you can completely be yourself. Loneliness cannot be confused with socially isolated, which is a state of complete or almost lack of complete lack of contact between an individual and society. Having a dampened mood – perpetually, a lot of lethargy, withdrawal from others, crying for no reason, lethargy or unusual amounts of quietude can all work together to manifest into this complex emotion – loneliness.  Although, there is a catch, similar to how your body disintegrates from hunger – when you are starved and you can feel your nails snapping; where every fibre of your being is craving for food, w...