Navneet Shukla

Geography facts are usually the kind of thing you memorise for a school test and forget three days later. These are not those facts. There is a country…

People pleasing rarely looks like fear from the outside. It looks polite. Someone asks where you want to eat and you say anywhere is fine. A colleague gives…

Can you smell fear? Imagine walking into a room just before someone has to give a speech. Nobody says anything. Everyone is sitting normally. But the room…

Why do we miss places we once couldn't wait to leave? There is probably a street somewhere that means almost nothing to anyone else. No famous building.…

Do dogs miss you when you leave the house, or are we flattering ourselves? It is easy to believe they do. You pick up your keys and your…

Mary Ann Bevan spent years being advertised as “the ugliest woman in the world.” People bought tickets to stare at her. Newspapers joked about her. Circus posters turned…

AI companions have created a very strange problem. Imagine talking to the same chatbot every day for months. You tell it about work, relationships, things you are embarrassed…

El Niño deaths could reach hundreds of thousands during the current event, according to a new analysis from the Climate Impact Lab. There is a number making…

Google Search is Broken, Not in the obvious sense. You can still check the weather, find a restaurant, look up a football score or discover the name…

Do chimpanzees have accents? Until recently, I would have put that question in the same category as whether dogs have favourite songs. Interesting to think about, but probably…

School stress feels like a modern problem. We usually blame exams, homework, competition, parents, teachers, university admissions, social media, or some combination of all of them. There…

Ads in dreams sound like something somebody made up for a meme. I first saw people joking about them on Instagram. Proper advertisements, they said. Brand names, logos,…

Kama Purushartha, the third of the four aims of life, is the one nobody fully warns you about. Not because it is forbidden. Because it does not…

Chiang Mai travel was not what I thought it would be. And I had been in Thailand long enough to think I knew what to expect. I…

London arrived in summer and it did not apologise for itself. Everything was alive and loud and slightly too much. The streets felt like they were performing.…

Everyone you speak to in Thailand seems genuinely delighted to see you. Cheerful. Warm. Excited. The smile arrives before the conversation does. It took me longer than…

The Ashwatthama curse is not a punishment for what he did. It is a punishment for what he became. After the war ends, after the sleeping children…

The phrase is deceptive empathy. It is not from a novel. It is a formal category of ethical violation, assigned by licensed clinical psychologists, in a peer-reviewed…