The “Log Kya Kahenge” Effect: How Social Pressure Damages Indian Mental Health
For over 15 years, I’ve sat across from individuals in my therapy practice, taking note of stories of hysteria, despair, and profound inner warfare. The […]
For over 15 years, I’ve sat across from individuals in my therapy practice, taking note of stories of hysteria, despair, and profound inner warfare. The […]
Let’s be brutally sincere for a moment. How often have you ever stated, had the notion, or honestly felt that you “simply don’t have time” […]
Winter has a manner of settling in, no longer simply around us but within us. The world turns inward; the days are quick, the light […]
The first frost of the season always brings it back. For me, it’s the memory of my father, years in the past, determined to smooth […]
It can happen on the spot. One minute, you are safe in your own kitchen, and the next, a sound or a scent pulls you […]
It begins subtly, almost as a whisper underneath the cacophony of current life. A lingering feeling of fatigue that coffee can now longer thrust back. […]
There’s a quiet magic that happens while you step off the paved path and into the embodiment of the wild. The fragrance of damp earth […]
Your status within the grocery line, the fluorescent lights humming a stupid, frantic tune. Your smartphone buzzes—another email. The person at the back of you […]
It hits around 4 PM. The workplace window, once a window to the world, has turned out to be a block of obsidian. The solar, […]
We tend to think of our mental health in grand, sweeping terms. It’s the story of approximately 12 months of burnout, the narrative of overcoming […]
The World We Don’t See It is 3:17 in the morning. The forest does not care about what time it is. The forest is twenty-three […]
The European robin is a small bird. It weighs less than a first-class letter. The brain of the European robin is roughly the size of […]
Picture a street you know. Now imagine an area where you do not pay attention to the noise of cars, the sound of humans wearing […]
You’ve smelled it before. That particular, acrid sweetness of paper curling in flame—the Library of Alexandria, maybe, or a novel left too close to a […]
It’s March. A lawn warbler sits immobile on a reed in southern Germany. The sun has dipped beneath the horizon. Stars are out, but the […]
For twenty years, I carried two bags. One becomes a camera bag, worn and weathered, filled with lenses that had visible savannahs and rainforests. The […]