Indradhanush - The Colours of Life

  Boredom – Friend or Foe?  When was the last time you heard your child telling that she is getting bored and you allowed her to remain in that state and experience it the way she/he experiences other emotional states. While raising my children I encountered many parents who enrolled their children in too many extracurricular activities, to keep them busy and to avoid the one existential question “I am getting bored, what should I do now?” Children getting bored is seen as the most evil thing and leads to the conclusion that your parenting is not up to the mark if you can't keep your children engaged in some activity. This often poses a challenge to parents - how to handle this situation?. I had a similar perception till in a discussion with my supervisor I heard him saying that boredom always conveys something, try understanding it. It may be worth it to experience it. It’s the way we see which makes it negative. This roused my curiosity and I started reading studies and rese...

      GRIEF AND MOURNING “ OVERLOOKED” ,,, a perspective for healthcare professionals As any other Indian, I joined in the ritual of lightning Diya, banging steel plates and attending almost all the broadcasts in which our Prime Minister addressed the nation. I did everything with the thought of showing and even feeling myself as a responsible citizen expressing gratitude and respect to frontline warriors in the times of Covid,  but it did not help. Every day I come across the articles which mentioned the struggles faced by the frontline workers during the COVID-19. The list of struggles is too long to be mentioned here but the most ignored area was “Grief”, as experienced and managed by healthcare professionals Grief…. a spectrum : Grief is a universal and fundamental emotion experienced by people witnessing loss in their life. Often bereavement, grief, and mourning are used interchangeably. However, while bereavement is the fact of loss, grief is the emotional, cog...