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No-Time Syndrome: The Emotional Gap Behind Digital Addiction

 In recent years, digital addiction among children has become one of the most discussed concerns in education and parenting. Schools conduct awareness programs, experts suggest screen-time limits, and society constantly debates solutions to reduce children’s dependency on gadgets. While these conversations are important, perhaps we are overlooking a deeper and more uncomfortable reality — children are not growing addicted to screens in isolation. Today’s parents are balancing highly demanding professional lives. Long working hours, endless schedules, meetings, deadlines, workplace expectations, and even office politics often consume their mental and emotional energy. By the time they return home, their minds are already overcrowded with unfinished tasks and tomorrow’s responsibilities. In such exhaustion, many parents unintentionally lose the time, patience, and emotional space needed to truly listen to their children. Children come home wanting to share their little stories — ...
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Women 2.0 Recalibrated

  On what we lose when worth is measured in what we earn — and not in what we give. For generations, women have been the silent architects of homes — investing time, energy, and an immeasurable amount of emotional labour into building families, raising children, and holding everything together. Yet, somewhere along the way, a troubling question began to echo louder across dining tables and living rooms. " What have you earned?" Not built. Not nurtured. Not sacrificed.  Earned. In a world that increasingly measures worth in paychecks and productivity metrics, the invisible work of homemakers has been steadily devalued. The emotional scaffolding they provide — the listening, the caring, the remembering of small details — doesn't translate into numbers. And what cannot be quantified often gets dismissed. "The very stability that allowed a generation to pursue careers was built on unpaid, unrecognised effort. That irony deserves to sit with us for a moment." This is...
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What Are We Really Holding On To?

  If you cannot hold on to life itself—if one day it will slip quietly through your fingers—then what exactly are we trying so hard to hold on to? Money, positions, relationships, memories, identities. Somewhere along the way, I began to notice a pattern in my own life. Attachment doesn't arrive all at once—it evolves. As a child, my world was small but intense. I was attached to stickers, keychains, toys—little things that felt like treasures. When they were lost, I cried as if I had lost a part of myself. As a teenager, the objects changed, but the feeling remained. I became attached to friends, to belonging, to being understood. A small quarrel could disturb my entire world. As a young adult, attachment took on a more socially acceptable form—career, studies, achievement. Success meant identity. Failure felt like emptiness. And then came a phase I didn't expect. As a parent, I found myself holding on to memories. Old clothes, diaries, my child's baby dresses...
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Power, Profit, and the Forgotten Self

  We live in an age that glorifies motion but discourages reflection. It is a culture of “run, run, run” — until exhaustion becomes collapse. In this relentless pursuit of titles, wealth, recognition, beauty, and power, very few pause to ask a deeper question: What is the meaning of life? Success today is often measured in certifications, designations, and financial accumulation. Yet time and again, individuals reach the peak of their ambition only to discover an uncomfortable truth — life is not merely about earning more, achieving more, or appearing more. Everything is transient. Power fades. Fame dissolves. Beauty alters. Wealth shifts hands. Sacred texts across traditions — whether the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita — echo a universal reminder: anchor yourself in the Divine, and act with integrity in the role you are given. When faith is rooted in conviction rather than convenience, life flows with greater clarity. The problem is not ambition; the problem is attachment without ...
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What We Send to the Ocean, We Send Back to Ourselves

Last summer, I went to Kovalam Beach in Chennai for what I thought would be a carefree evening by the sea. The sun was warm, the breeze carried salt and laughter, and for a moment, everything felt perfect. Then I noticed what some of the children were doing. They were running along the shoreline, squealing and chasing each other — but not with seashells or seaweed. They were holding up dead fish, trying to scare one another with lifeless eyes and stiff, silvery bodies. Dozens of them lay scattered across the sand, washed ashore like forgotten debris. At first, I laughed nervously and told them to put the fish down. But as I looked closer, the laughter died in my throat. This wasn't a few unlucky fish caught in a net. The beach was lined with them — small ones, large ones, some still glistening, others already rotting under the afternoon sun. I asked a fisherman nearby what had happened. He shrugged, his face weary and resigned. "It happens," he said. "Every f...
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Are Physical Libraries and Hard Copies Becoming Redundant in the Digital Era?

  Recently, the British Council Library in Chennai closed its doors, citing the need for "access, flexibility, and relevance". This closure reflects a global trend: the slow fading of physical books, newspapers, and even library spaces in favor of digital content. But what does this mean for knowledge, learning, and sustainability? Reading Habits: Hard Copies vs eBooks The shift started long before the pandemic, but COVID-19 sped things up. Libraries closed temporarily, schools moved to online learning, and eBooks and PDFs became the main way to access information. Here's what we're seeing with today's youth: Preference for speed and accessibility: Many students prefer eBooks because they can search, highlight, and carry hundreds of books on a single device. Decline in traditional reading: Studies show that younger readers often skim content on screens rather than reading physical books fully. Interestingly, research also shows that people remember and und...
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Sustainability Starts in Your Closet—and Your Child's Stationery Cupboard

  There was a time—especially for many of us who grew up in the 90s—when a pen, pencil, or eraser was replaced only after it had been completely used. Notebooks were filled to the last page. Schoolbags carried what was essential, not what was fashionable. Clothes were passed down from siblings or cousins. Books changed many hands before resting on a shelf. Fast-forward to today. We live in a culture of overflowing cupboards—especially when it comes to stationery. Fancy stationery articles in every shade imaginable starting from gel pens to markers and paints, gift wrappers to planners and journals with glittering covers— an avalanche of unfinished desires enough to stock a small store. Supplies to last not one childhood, but two generations. So, it's time to pause and ask : What are we really purchasing? Is it creativity—or excess? Is it preparedness—or abundance we don’t truly require? Imagine if every household laid out all the stationery it owned. The sheer volume ...
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