Image Credit: Pinterest Books are said to be a person’s best friends as when there is no one to guide us, our books are always there to show us the right path in life. They always direct us to follow the moral values and principles of life. Everyone has a book which helped to change one’s life. Books are a great source of knowledge for us and they play an important role in the lives of students. A book never gives wrong advice to its reader and every book we read has a message to learn. In fact, a recent study shows that reading books has a positive impact on the brain. When we read a book or listen to a story, the brain releases certain harmones that allow us to turn the story into our own idea and experience. This is known as ‘neuro coupling’. The brain releases ‘happy hormone’ and we start a perceiving the story as our own and as a result, all the areas of the brain are activated in this process. Many of us have special memories of the books that have inspired us, and have lea...
On world mental health day (10 th October) there are many episodes and stories which need to be remembered and retold. These are in fact stories of phenomenal success and also of the quiet transformation of society which may go unrecorded. I am writing about how from stigmatized false notions about mental health, acceptance was won for counseling and psychiatry in non-cosmopolitan small towns and cities. The acceptance was from the largely illiterate or semi-literate people from the rural society who began to visit psychiatrists without hiding the fact from the others. One such story is about Dr. K. A Ashok Pai, a renowned psychiatrist, a B.C Roy awardee and the first chairman of the Karnataka State Mental Health Task Force before he passed away in September 2016. I do not want to write about the later phase of his career when he was known nationally, much awarded and already a legend but about how it all began. He gave up his job as a Governm...
Pic: www.hennepinhealthcare.org It is obvious that life after COVID 19 will never be the same as it before. The life after corona can take two paths- one, well disciplined, hygienic, austere and pro-nature life filled with contentment and good-will, another is more reckless, callous, irresponsible and chaotic life filled with greed and dogmas. The traits of each path can be seen in every aspects of life-economic, social, cultural and religious life, as the impact of COVID 19 is not only on the health of the people but on social, economic, cultural and religious aspects of life. The visible traits of the first path are positive and desirable. People will learn to live with CORONA as they do with malaria. In future, social distancing will be norms that will certainly new social conventions and behavioural patterns. Hugging and shaking hands will be abhorred. Wearing face mask, hand gloves will...
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