Category: Shades of Grey

Anurag was declared asthmatic when he entered his teens. He was allergic to many foods as well as cold weather and often absented from school due to ill health. He…Continue reading“Clinging, complaining and blaming”- 11 December 2016

A bright young girl in school always topped the class was generally aloof from others and kept to herself. She befriended barely one or two other girls and would not…Continue reading“Power of being an Introvert”- 27 November 2016.

Have you ever seen a person obsessed with a certain something? There was this short stubby scientist and social worker who worked and poured over his books whole night whole…Continue reading“Your love affair with life”- 13 November 2016.

My sister called me one day and said ‘try something different- it works wonders. Along with saying your regular prayers on waking up in the morning, face the sun and…Continue reading“The philosophy of gratitude”- 30 October 2016.

A youth stated that he belonged to a religious and God fearing family where he was taught to be polite, tolerant and respectful of others. Today he felt it was…Continue reading“Tolerant to a fault”- 16 October 2016

A curious youth asked a seemingly simple question- is ‘tolerance’ a positive word or a negative one. Apparently we would agree that tolerance is a positive word for we often…Continue readingThe half-truth of ‘tolerance of diversity’- 2 October 2016.

Whenever we visited our maternal grandparents in the village in Punjab, my Mother would get busy with relatives and the community in the village and would sort of dump us…Continue reading“The continent of self”- 18 September 2016.

This is the most common question we deal with as a professional psychologist. ‘What is my problem?’ ‘I am not okay- something is wrong with me’. ‘I don’t know what…Continue reading“What is my problem?”- 4 September 2016.

As kids we were amused with a plant named ‘touch me not’. We discovered it one fine day through a visiting ‘uncle’ who introduced the shy plant to us. It…Continue reading“Touch me not”- 21 August 2016.

It is an age old mechanism in politics when people say ‘no comments’ and maintain a discrete silence. This is with a specific purpose of making no comments on a…Continue reading“Stonewalling: the method of silence”- 7 August 2016.