Deepam Chatterjee

MASTERMIND: THE MASTER OF ONE’S MIND

April 24, 2023

Have you noticed that on days when you are in a really good mood, everything feels great and you tend to ignore small ‘negatives’? For example, when you are very happy, and someone accidentally breaks a nice piece of your crockery, you might smile and say, ‘it’s ok, it happens’,...

Turning AWARENESS INTO action

April 11, 2023

The week between Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti is the time for very deep introspection. The first nine days of chaitra mas, celebrated as Chaitra Navratri, are to contemplate the self. Ram or soul is the awakening within us. It is the realisation of the real light of lights. However,...

GIVE YOURSELF THE PERMISSION TO MESS UP

March 14, 2023

It’s a straight nail that gets hammered in. Being puritanical, virtuous and too straight in life must be something for us to aspire towards. However, if such behaviour becomes a sanctimonious display to show-off and gain admiration of others, or is turned into an opportunity for one-upmanship, then it becomes...

WHAT KEEPS US FROM BEING HAPPY?

March 7, 2023

We all want to be happy. However, most of us don’t know how to remain happy in all situations. What is it that keeps us unhappy? Is it possible to be happy all the time? People don’t realise that they are themselves the cause of their unhappiness. We don’t like...

HOW DEEP IS OUR LOVE?

February 14, 2023

Are we really capable of love? How do we know if someone really loves us? People give us gifts, they say nice things to us, they go out of their way for us, they are faithful to us, they show their respect for us, they stop people from talking ill...

THE FOOLPROOF SIGN OF A FOOL

January 3, 2023

An ancient Sanskrit maxim declares, “Pride, bad language, stubbornness, pessimism and refusing to listen to counsel - these are five characteristics of a fool”. Friedrich Schiller, a German poet had said, “Against stupidity the very gods themselves, contend in vain”. It’s said that the foolish always have a lot to...

A CHECKLIST FOR THE YEAR GONE BY

December 27, 2022

What has changed for us in this year gone by? Has the past year been filled with improvements? Was it a downhill slide? Or has it been a mixed bag of successes and failures on different fronts? We have possibly spent the whole of last year facing various challenges and...