Dealing with depression and anxiety naturally
Have you ever checked the results thrown up by recent mental health surveys? If you have, then you’ll agree that it really is a mad, mad, mad, mad world we’re living in today. According to the International Mental Health Research Organisation, the life of every fifth person in the world today is affected by some mental illness or the other. And the World Health Organisation says that one in every four persons is likely to develop a mental disorder at some point in his or her lifetime. That’s how alarming the mental state of our world is.
World Mental Health Day
Just yesterday, on the 10th of October, the world celebrated World Mental Health Day. And currently, many countries are observing Mental Health Awareness Week. This year, the theme of World Mental Health Day being “Mental health and older adults”, the emphasis is on helping seniors and retired people stay mentally healthy and live fuller, and happier lives. Continue reading
His poetry is a celebration of his Goan-ness, every word drenched in a deep understanding and a passionate enjoyment of all things Goan. Only someone Goan to the core could have written:
reading these lines wouldn’t envision tanatalizing images of thick, fragrant fish curry trickling its way into the spaces between plump grains of steamed unpolished rice? And not just these lines, but all the works of Goa’s legendary poet Balkrishna Bhagwant Borkar exude the very essence of Goa, her sublime natural beauty and the character and foibles of her people.
Consider the following paragraph:
After the brief introduction to some of the major Goan mando composers in my last post, it’s time to move on to the lyrics of their superb compositions. I’m sure you’ll agree that the ingredients required for creating a memorable song are good music and good lyrics. And our mando composers have walked that line with distinction. They’ve given us timeless melodies whose magic is further enhanced by poignant lyrics. Lyrics that tug at our heart-strings, words that have the power to make generations of Goans want to listen to these mandos over and over again. 
What made me ponder over a stupid question like this, was reading the big story of the day as reported in newspapers across the UK, Australia, and elsewhere soon after Margaret Thatcher’s funeral on April 17. From The Sun and the Daily Mail, and the Daily Star to the Guardian, almost every major paper found that an important male politician, (in this case Britain’s Finance Minister, George Osborne,) shedding tears at a funeral, (in this case, the Iron Lady’s funeral,) was something so startling, so odd, that they all chose to splash this across their front pages. 
Do you often make Mr. Bean-like faces when you see people (ordinary people whom you know, not film stars or Page 3 celebrities) who are as old as or older than you, but look like they’re much younger, and wonder, “How come they’ve aged less than I have?” Well, no one can prevent aging, but it is certainly possible to slow down the aging process and live an active life much longer. 
If you stop by the village of Chandor in Salcete, Goa, today, you won’t see any trace of the swagger of its heyday when it used to be the capital city of the Kadambas and a thriving centre of trade and commerce. What you’ll see is a serene rural landscape dotted by a clutch of stately colonial mansions which were once the dwellings of the aristocracy. But the grandest of these opulent landmarks is the two-storey Braganza House, stretching along all of 400 ft., and nestling amidst decorative palms and flowering shrubs just a few metres down the road from Chandor’s 17th century Nossa Senhora de Belem Church. 
It’s never too early or too late to become a writer. Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolfe started writing in their twenties. Others like Sir Walter Scott were late bloomers, publishing their novels after they crossed sixty. So no matter what your age, let’s move on to learning how to start a freelance writing career. Well, freelance writing is a broad term covering many forms of writing; therefore before taking the plunge you should first narrow down the various options and find a niche that suits you and your interests the best. To do this you have to ask yourself a few important questions.
Growing older is inevitable. Chronologically, I mean, not in spirit. We have to grow older, but we don’t have to grow bitter. Being bitter and resentful is a sure formula for unhappiness and for adding on more wrinkles, faster. Bitterness is like a poisonous plant, like a tumour, that will take hold of your mind and fill it with negative feelings till there is no joy left in your life at all. Not just that, it will also give rise to physical problems. Dr. S. I. McMillan, in his bestseller “None of These Diseases,” says, “Anger, unhandled, will show itself in at least 50 diseases.”
