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Nurturing Your Inner Child: A Journey to Personal Growth Within each of us resides a playful, curious, and imaginative inner child, a remnant of our youthful exuberance and untamed spirit. While adulthood often brings responsibilities and a sense of maturity, it's crucial to keep that inner child alive, for it holds the key to personal growth and fulfillment. 1. Embrace Playfulness and Joy: Rediscover the simple pleasures that brought you joy as a child. Engage in activities that spark your creativity and ignite your sense of wonder. Whether it's painting, dancing, playing music, or simply spending time in nature, allow yourself to embrace the lightheartedness and spontaneity of childhood. Through out my childhood I have enjoyed watching cartoons, it used be an activity of extreme joy for me to watch cartoons because we were a joint family and we had one Television placed in our drawing room too often elders were watching their favourite programmes so we children had to comprom...

When I tried Andrew Huberman's Morning Routine.  Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and professor at Stanford University who has gained popularity for his research on the brain and behavior. He is known for his podcast the "Huberman lab" where he discusses science based facts and lifestyle techniques and I too have been binge watching him for productivity and personal development. It all started with a youtube short in which I saw Andrew explaining how exposure to sunlight in the early day can help you fall asleep and to take quality sleep and it blew my mind, then i discovered Andrew Huberman. After discovering his content I found Andrew's morning routine is quite popular and is considered to be effective. Therefore I started to follow his morning routine and every morning i decided to capture sunrise to measure my progress. Let me first tell you How Huberman spends his morning. 1. Wake up early:  Huberman wakes up at 5:30 am every day to give himself plenty of time...

Conservation with out Care 9August. World Tribal day. International Day of the World's Indigenous People's  Every time, I attend a workshop or a seminar on any environment-related issue like the conservation of wildlife, forests, climate change, etc. It is always fascinating to ponder over some of the very intriguing questions like, how nature works, how much time it takes to form a drop of water, how much forest are we left with, is sustainable life really possible, what should come first development or environment and if development is coming at the cost of environment, then can we really call it development, what is the actual meaning of development?  Let’s Park these normative questions aside for a moment. Because my purpose here is not to respond to these important normative questions. Rather, through these questions, I want to bring to your focus the importance of bios and the efforts that many environmentalists have put into making us realise the importance of bios and ...

Manipur Violence and Way Ahead. Introduction:  Manipur, one of the smallest states in India, is currently facing extreme violence and unrest. In the past two months, the region has witnessed houses being set ablaze, religious places burnt down, and a significant loss of lives and injuries. While the Prime Minister's office is yet to release an official statement on the current situation of Manipur, this blog post aims to shed light on the underlying causes of the violence in Manipur. What is the cause of the violence in Manipur? • Ethnic tensions:  Manipur is home to various ethnic groups, including Meiteis (the majority), Kukis, and Nagas. Meiteis comprise a little more than half of the population while the tribals, Kukis and Nagas, are nearly 40%, 25%. Most of the Meiteis live in the Imphal valley while the tribals live in the hill districts.The Meitei community, which forms the majority, has been accused of dominating the political and economic landscape of the state. Howev...

 DISCLAIMER: The following blog is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, locales, places, and events, used in this blog are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental and is not to be taken as true. Read As usual, it was a normal pleasant day. I received a call from Tajar, a third-year graduating resident, regarding the leniency in hostel management. So, I asked Tajar, “shall we go to the principal office and file a complaint about the problems that the hostel residents are facing.” Tajar accepted my idea. However, it was not our first attempt to meet our principal. Earlier, around a month ago, we had made a similar attempt to contact her. But the only thing that we received in return was an “assurance.” An assurance that she will visit our hostels within two days. However, since then a month has passed but nobody came to visit to us. We all wa...

  Discrimination Diaries By- Shreyansh Nishchal  We all have been denied our reasonable rewards and we all at some point have missed our opportunities just because we could not fit among the people around us. Sometimes you may be judged based upon your class, or ethnicity other times you may face discrimination based upon gender, caste, and religion. But the real problem is not the discrimination but our acceptance of it. We all have sometimes faced extreme discrimination based upon a social identity that mere comments upon your class and ethnicity do not seem discriminatory to us, sometimes even your social identity-based humiliation is tolerated by people based upon the belief that conditions were worse before. This has led to a collective acceptance of a discriminatory mindset among us. So we have come up with a collection of stories that may seem ordinary but are an outcome of a discriminatory mindset. DISCRIMINATION DIARIES  Recently, I watched a web series titled Pa...

Self improvement for students Whenever we discuss about personal development or self improvement we seldom include teenagers or students. we may be living with a notion that these processes does not apply to students but these notions would have been true if we would be talking 50 years ago. But today's students face a lot of issues which has to be taken care of majorly in post COVID time where mental health is severely affected and people are suffering from mental trauma, aloofness, and are stressed out.Thus preparing oneself for countering these problems becomes mandatory for living a happy and prosperous life. A student can never succeed without constant improvement.Here are four aspects which students can work upon for daily self improvement :  1) Concentration As a student moves into new and upgraded grades every year, so the burden of good academic performance increases and complexities of educational concepts raises and to counter it students should try concentra...