SNAEHA SATHYAN

  My students would vouch for me if asked how much I love debates, the love I have for debates is inexpressible in words. I have always wanted to learn a lot, find new perspectives and dimensions to the beliefs I hold to upgrade my already existing ones while also getting to know the plights of others with how they have formed their ideas for life and why do they hold it so dear to them. The more I could relate it with the concepts that I learnt in the humanities gives me an affirmation on how a life is to be lived and the beliefs that are held unannounced by the world, I mean the norms on which we have to set our boundaries with other fellow beings by being compassionate with them and leading a harmonious life.  I have spent my Sundays watching Neeya Naana without fail, but I have abstained from watching certain episodes that was on Fashion as it was not of my interest. The episodes on social issues were my absolute favorite and it has always been an eye-opener for me, likewi...

Of all the skills that I would like to equip, this one tops the first because I believe that this is one which makes most of the potential people to step back a bit and feel overwhelmed before doing anything that they had always wanted to do.  The idea of writing on this did not occur to me even while reading the book, "The Courage to be Disliked" written by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi but when I read more about "Digital Minimalism" and sat down leisurely and thought about what our parents had always told us when we complained them that we could not do certain things.  There comes a time in life where we start believing that our parents were right when they said that all of the 1008 problems we own are because of this cell phone.  Earlier when I was in my school, the days when I didn’t own a cell phone I used to dream of flipping one and talking to my brother to ask how he is doing while I watch my tuition teacher fiddling with it instead of teaching me Chemist...

It is very hard for me to admit but the truth is to be told - Years back when I was 18 or so I remember yelling at my sister in law that I am no longer a kid to be taught and monitored and I was on cloud nine for becoming an adult. Never did I know that I would regret what I said when I actually turn into an adult!  Allow me to explain why I am writing this when people actually never care and even if they do they cannot spare a few minutes reading this. So let me be honest in why I am doing this - One, it is for me - I get a chance to ponder and retrospect on how far I have come and search the meaning for all these years I have spent with different people in 25 years. It is not like I worry ageing but I am now alright with evolving and learning something out of it. Two - People who are really interested in reading blogs like this one can actually gain something out of it. Now, coming back to business! 1. NO LONGER BELIEVE THAT EACH THING HAPPENS ONLY AT A CERTAIN AGE: There are anc...