Color of Grief & Mourning — Google doesn’t offer an accurate answer to the queries like ‘what color should I wear to a funeral?’ or ‘can I wear color to a funeral?’ And reaching consensus is really difficult, mainly due to the perception of death in different cultures and traditions. Primarily dependent on the climatic conditions…

Professional Mourners Are Mostly Women — A person trained in the funeral etiquettes can mourn the death of a stranger. They can lament and deliver a eulogy or help comfort the grieving family. They are professional mourners or moirologist. Sometimes they perform openly, and at times, they act discreetly. Professional mourning is mostly a gendered occupation…

What To Do And How To Plan When Someone Dies — We seldom incorporate deaths in our plan when we pan out the curves of our lives. That is why when death happens near us, we find ourselves almost clueless. Can we have a definitive to-do checklist of things that needs our attention after someone dies? …

How To Deal With Anticipatory Grief Without Guilt — I still remember him. We were not from the same university, but we were friends. Because both of us loved discussing philosophy. Sometimes, he preferred writing long letters to me and used to post them at my address. His personal life became full of complications because of strained relations with his…

Stop Acting Like You Know What You’re Doing. Here Is How To Overcome That — Two of my friends are Netflix terminators. Their phones brim with the notifications of new series or the new season of shows the all day long. Sometimes, I suspect they eagerly wait for them. Because I know they never want to miss any. I have been addicted to Netflix and…

We Pick Up Our Phones 58 times a day and It is Alarming — When Coronavirus started affecting habits of sociality during lockdowns, humans turned toward their smartphones’ screens. Within March alone, Twitter was topped up with the stories of shock and amazement. People were posting picture grabs of their increased screen time. Although some excused themselves saying that it is an unprecedented time…

Claim Your Time Back by Using These Small Tips — When I trek in the Himalayas, I find my smartphone almost useless. It can get me nowhere, and it is of virtually no use because there is no signal and no internet above a certain altitude. …

Predictions Can blind You to Current Opportunities — Sometimes I wonder what the world would have been like if we all knew our future? Perhaps that would be a boring world whether you are in heaven or hell. As if you are a program and some programmer has written out a code for you. You will not even…

Story of an Indian who introduced the idea of the shampoo you use every day — Dean Mahomed was only ten years old when his father died in battle fighting for East India Company in Bengal. Dean became an orphan. An Anglo-Irish officer in the Company, Captain Godfrey Evan Baker, took him into his guardianship. …