Do you wear any jewellery? What is your favourite jewellery? What kind of metal or material do you like most in your jewellery? Wearing of jewellery has been in custom since time immemorial since the human being has learned to live on the planet...
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5th Dec 2023 | Updated at 11:52pm 5th Dec 2023
Introspection: If you were introduced by someone
- 22 Nov 2023
In social and professional situations, we get introduced to a variety of people by someone. It's networking. If your contact introduces you to someone, it may be for the benefit of you and the person introduced. This new contact may be helpful and beneficial in your personal life or professionally. You both are free to avail that advantage through the newly formed relationship.
Introspection: Are our miseries universal?
- 26 Oct 2023
Hardly there is an individual who has not, is not, or will not face any misery in life. You ask anyone and the person will say how difficult a situation he has gone through or is going through. It's human nature that everyone feels his/her pain is more severe than others. But if we analyze the problems of people, more or less they are similar and have comparable root causes. So the question is: whether our miseries are universal or unique. If they are universal, can there be solutions that can apply...
Introspection
- 21 Jun 2023
How many times does it happen that you wish for something and it comes ready on your platter? Rarely, right? It is evident that whatever you want, you have to ask for it, clearly and unequivocally.
Have you ever faced a situation where the other person doesn't look in your eyes while talking? Not maintaining eye contact while being in the conversation is considered impolite. Some cultures specifically emphasise direct eye contact. When...
- 27 Jul 2021
Sometime back, unfortunately, I received news of sad demises of a very senior spiritual figure, which certainly made me sad. Later during the day, I had news of another senior person from local political leadership and by night I had to bear...
You don't have a hobby?If you ask this question to anyone: 'What's your hobby?' There is more than fifty percent chance that he will fumble. 'Well, I don't have any hobby,' or 'my work is my hobby,' or 'I don't have time for a hobby,' kind of...
We saw in the Euro2020 final match between England and Italy that the result is not decided till the final penalty kick. It was a good game and both teams played well but just as it happens in every sport, the winner is only one. Each minute...
‘Hi, how are you?’‘How can I be with you being in my life?’These are two messages exchanged between two persons. If no further information is given, you are bound to interpret the answer in various ways. If these messages are exchanged between...
Rejected!Have you ever tried pulling your hair out because of this word – rejected? We all face rejection in our lives, and it may not be only once or twice but many times. Rejection can be in any field – a love affair, society, job application,...
Most of the models and theories of social sciences like economics are based on assumed rationality in human behaviour. Economists believe that people will make choices to make optimal use of resources and there will be equilibrium in society....
A friend of mine had a habit of not saying no to any request. If one would request him to help with homework, he would do. If someone would request him to lend some money, he will help whatever he could. On a proposal to party, he was always...
