Journal of life

Aug 22 2020

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Hosted by Siddhartha Jha, Journal of life is an attempt to shed light on the various unspoken issues of our daily living. Siddhartha, a life coach by profession is a keen spiritual seeker and a life skills trainer but most importantly, he is a student of life. Thus, he wishes to share what he has gathered in his number of years of experience training individuals of various age groups.

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Episode 16- How to Get over a Heart-Break?

Aug 22 2020 21 mins

Heart-Break is one feeling that most of us share mutually. A failed relationship, unfulfilled love, breakups, unrequited feelings all of these are common to everyone. We expect the life and the relationship to go a certain way. But even though we try and do the best possible thing, it does not necessarily turn out to be the way we wanted them too. This happens quite often in the ca

Episode 15- What makes a Hero?

Aug 15 2020 24 mins

A teenager, a young person has a very impressionable mind. When he comes out of the protective cocoon that his parents provide him with, he witnesses the real world and it's colors for the first time. He gets attracted by a lot of things, inspired by a lot of thing. This is the point at which he makes his idols, heroes. People who aspire us, Inspire us. And this happens more so wit

Episode 14- Ram-Mandir, Democracy and Secularism

Aug 08 2020 22 mins

5th August was indeed a historic day. As a result of probably the most controversial decision in this century for India, the Ram-Mandir construction began. But so began, the endless chatter around the decision. The country has been literally divided into two factions. One of them in outright support of the decision and the construction of the temple in Ayodhya, and the other one, t

Episode 13 - Right Action vs Wrong Action

Aug 01 2020 18 mins

We have all been taught various things since childhood. Violence is bad, love is good, to be kind, polite, respecting, truthful etc. A child learns them earnestly, but when he grows up, he finds that the world operates in grey and not black & white. Whatever he had learnt so far, is in reality of very little or no use in the world. As a result, more or less, all of us remain confus

Episode 12 - The Myth of Expression

Jul 25 2020 20 mins

Of late, there has been a surge in a common consensus when it comes to mental health. People often say that one should not suppress his/her emotions. One should talk to people, express what they have in their hearts. But is this consensus entirely true?Expression means saying or doing what comes to our mind. We live in a society, we are a part of a society. Invariably, we feel the

Episode 11 - Love and Rebel

Jul 18 2020 19 mins

We've all heard of the epic romances, the eternal love tales. From Shirin-Fariyad to Laila-Majnu; from Heer-Ranjha & Mirza-Sahiba to Romeo-Juliet. All these eternal love stories have been passed on from generations. Have we ever noticed that these stories have a great deal in common? Have we ever sought to seek, what they intend to teach us or are they mere stories to be read, for

Episode 10 - Trust Issues

Jul 11 2020 20 mins

All of us irrespective of our caste, creed, background go through very similar problems in our lives in most of the cases. Difficulty in trusting people can easily be said to be one of those problems.Our lives includes a number of people, family, friends, colleagues, neighbours etc. We have a relationship with each of them. We expect them to be a certain way but they eventually don

Episode 9 - Raising Parents

Jul 04 2020 26 mins

A child's birth is a golden opportunity; a blessing in disguise! An opportunity for the parents, the guardians to grow up with the kid. At first, the child requires support physically and emotionally. But is that all? Is that what parenting is all about and limited to? Is there something more that is required? What is it that needs to be taught to a kid to ensure his life remains f

Episode 8 - The Real Beauty

Jun 27 2020 21 mins

Ever wondered, what is beauty fundamentally? When we say, "He/She is beautiful", who do we refer to? Or what do we refer to? Is it the clothes, the make up, the skin colour, the body parts or is it something more? What is the significance of being beautiful in this world? How is it decided that someone is superior or inferior on the basis of how they look? Is there an absolute para

Episode 7- Understanding our Responsibility

Jun 20 2020 19 mins

On 14th June, 2020, the nation, rather, the world lost a gem, named Sushant Singh Rajput. The actor committed suicide spawning humungous conversations about mental health. There have been numerous conjectures about how the nexus created within the Indian Film Industry ostracised him and eventually coerced him to commit suicide. People have been talking a lot about mental health, it