We’ve gone from voluntary social distancing to mandatory social isolation and each one of us is embracing this time period in a different way. With our usual life goals being driven by our desire to...

I am a 20-year-old college student suffering from severe OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). I’ve had it for five years and it’s getting way worse every day and affecting everything from religiou...

I want to wear the short skirt. But...” The “but” can lead to an abyss.On the surface, it could be multiple things. Eventually it is just the need to be accepted and not judged. On the other han...

Psychology will be introduced as a compulsory subject in the undergraduate law course at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS).Students of the BA LLB programme will have to study psycho...

Women who have joined the sit-in at Shaheen Bagh are facing difficult questions from their children as the public discourse around the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests touches a new low...

The darkness of the mind and evil fascinates thriller writer Kanchana Banerjee. In her new psychological thriller Nobody’s Child, Banerjee explores the same by setting her plot against the pitfalls ...

Top athletes’ brains are not as noisy as yours and mine, according to a fascinating new study of elite competitors and how they process sound. The study finds that the brains of fit, young athletes ...

Ichapur Aleya’s play, Sparsha, written by Sangita Chowdhury and directed by Subhendu Majumdar, journeys through the rough terrains of a malaise digging its claws into our social fabric. It delves in...

We measure what we focus on. And for long, we have focused on the Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, a “tangible” attribute often used to define how much smarter we are than our peers. IQ is also used ...

Aditi Govitrikar, who was last seen in Zee5’s Parchayee, is currently pursuing a masters degree in psychology from Harvard University. She is raising mental health awareness and also counselling cel...