Thought encompasses an “aim-oriented flow of ideas and associations that can lead to a reality-oriented conclusion”. Although thinking is an activity of an existential value for humans, there is still no consensus as to how it is adequately defined or understood. Psychology, philosophy and religion are various lenses into how people perceive and engage with the world.
Psychology is the science of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope.
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about reason, existence, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved.
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.
Unless citizens are equal under the law, democracy becomes a farce. Recent events in courts of law highlight how the rights homosexuals and women with regard to marriage are trivialized.
Sexual orientations and sexual identity are developing increasing nuance that cannot be explored adequately due to social prejudices making a free flowing discussion unsafe.
Empath is a term one commonly encounters in support groups for mental abuse, particularly at the hands of those with Narcissistic Personality Disorder as someone who is the very opposite and usually a victim of a narcissist.
Living with a narcissist. A first person account of living with a covert narcissist that may help you recognize the signs if you are traumatized by compulsive and inexplicable lying and deceptive behaviour in a loved one.
This page aims to curate a collection of posters that can be printed out and used at protests or put up on walls and notice boards locally. If you would like to add to this collection, please email your posters to vidyut@aamjanata.com On public “ringtone” demand, here’s an audio file of Kanhaiya Kumar’s Azadi sloganeering …
A bicycle ride on a monsoon morning turned into an impromptu discussion of the world at large. Conversation drives democracy.
It is rare that one needs to speak up as an atheist and disown the speech or behavior of other atheists as communal hatred. Atheists are usually the smallest minority anywhere and where there is communal violence, they are usually on the receiving end, so the question of atheists being perpetrators of communal hatred rarely …
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A garbha sanskar event organized in Kolkata got challenged in the High Court by doctors over its claims to create super babies. This is a most welcome development in a country fast drowning in superstition. There is a trend these days to sell superstition in the name of science. As though faith is not enough …
Garbha Sanskar: The “Emperor’s new clothes” business model Read More »
Why is it becoming more and more uncomfortable to live within one’s own country, among people that we took for granted shared our view of the world? 2014 marked the year in which family and friends turned into aliens and opponents. Conversations invariably broke down at the point where Narendra Modi was seen as the …
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