This is a powerful book, one that can help you regardless of where you are right now. Replete with practical tips supported by research as well as interesting anecdotes, it’s easy to read and easy to start applying right away, a good example of what any self-help book should be like. James Clear, with his…
Book Review: Happier Now
This book is by the founder of the famous website and app Happier, Nataly Kogan. It’s a simple book and actually quite lovely if you are new to Positive Psychology. It has several actionable tips and ideas for daily exercises to improve one’s happiness, and is peppered with the author’s insights drawn from her very…
Making Metro Rides Free: So many feminists worried about appearing too feminist!
Over the last two days I have heard a lot of arguments for as well as against the free metro and DTC bus rides for women in Delhi announced by AAP. What I have found the most amusing is the “if you want equality, you can’t have reservation! Stop playing the woman card! This will…
PhD Diary #7
The journey from ‘I have to…’ to ‘I get to…’ contains the secret to lasting intrinsic motivation. It’s easy to get bogged down by deadlines and other commitments, and to forget to be grateful. It only takes a moment though to stop and recognise one’s good fortune in getting to do what one does, in…
I survived
It’s a tradition for me to go shopping on the day I get done with my share of evaluating students’ end-of-semester exam papers. The prospect of going shopping helps in enduring the ordeal. Usually however I end up spending more, to recover from the evaluation task, than I earned doing the same. It hasn’t been…
Attempting gratitude
I’m reading a book on happiness currently, most of which talks about cultivating acceptance and gratitude. As I type this, I’m sitting in a classroom in college for yet another afternoon invigilation duty. It’s difficult to engage in acceptance and gratitude right now. Invigilation and evaluation of exam papers, both of which have been going…
Review: Fleabag Season 2
“I think you know how to love better than any of us, that’s why you find it all so painful.”Fleabag is one of those shows in which every episode is better than the last. Now the second season has outdone the first, and “this is a love story”. Sadly there are only 6 episodes again…
PhD Diary #6
Growth is messy. It’s far from being a linear progession. One can go from making lofty promises to oneself one day to breaking every single one of them the very next day, while managing to bounce back slowly in the next few days and weeks. It’s completely alright. It’s vital to remember the power of…
Book Review: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carvo Rovelli is the Physics teacher I didn’t know I needed. Oh how I wish to be able to go back and appreciate all the concepts I waded through! How I wish every child gets to be taught by teachers as passionate about their subject as Rovelli is for Physics! I was a fairly good…
Random reflections during an afternoon invigilation duty
It’s been an interesting week. Things/events I had been waiting for since months finally happened. Blessings came galore. But yet again I felt more relieved than happy. The feeling is not unfamiliar; this has happened on some of the most important moments of my career in the past. I wish I were more excited this…
A Rain of Moments 