Tag: Psychology
The Real History of Gaslighting (And Why Knowing It Changes Everything)
The gaslighting history most people know stops at the definition. You probably know the word. Someone makes you doubt your own memory. Tells you the thing that happened, did not happen. Makes you feel like your reaction is the problem, not their behaviour. But almost nobody knows where it actually came from. And once you…
Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore: the story about two fathers and one lost daughter
Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore begins with a little girl who cannot stop talking. Mini is five years old. She has been talking since she learned how. Her mother loses patience with the chatter. Her father never does. He finds her silence, when it occasionally arrives, unbearable. This detail matters. Remember it. Because the story is…
Texas just sued Shein. The part about toxic clothing is harder to ignore.
Shein generated $30 billion in global revenue in 2023. On February 20, 2026, Texas sued it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Shein US Services LLC under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, alleging two things: the company sells products containing Shein toxic chemicals at unsafe levels, and it routes American consumer data to…
What is Schadenfreude: why we secretly enjoy other people’s pain
You scrolled past something this week that made you feel a small, quiet satisfaction. A person you find arrogant got publicly corrected. A company you dislike announced disappointing results. A celebrity whose confidence irritates you made an embarrassing mistake. An influencer who always appears perfect posted something that revealed they are not. You did not…
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant: the last line that changes everything
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant was published in 1884. It takes about fifteen minutes to read. The last line takes considerably longer to recover from. You will know it when you get there. Most people put the story down for a moment afterward. Not because they did not see it coming. Because somewhere underneath…
Does cannabis affect memory? it does not just blur it
Does Cannabis affect memory? You remember it clearly. The conversation. The thing that was said. The version of events that has quietly become the official version inside your head. You were there. You are sure of it. But what if you were high? And what if being high did not just make the memory vaguer?…
What the Mahabharatha knew about wealth that nobody told you
What is the meaning of Artha? Often reduced to mere wealth, it was understood by our ancestors as the vital ground that sustains a full human life. Karna’s story in the Mahabharata reveals the fragile, contested nature of this foundation-one that shapes identity, loyalty, and destiny. He was born with armour fused to his skin.…
All the versions of yourself you have already been
There are versions of yourself you have completely forgotten. Not the big ones. Not the you that graduated or moved cities or ended something that needed ending. Those ones you remember. Those ones have stories attached, photographs, the occasional 2am revisit when something in the present nudges something in the past and suddenly you are…
Why do i feel guilty for resting? the answer is not what you think
Why do I feel guilty for resting? It is one of those questions most people ask privately, usually on a Sunday afternoon when they are lying on the sofa doing nothing and a familiar unease has started to settle in. Not a crisis. Not even discomfort exactly. Just the low, persistent sense that they should…
Why asking someone out directly can lower your chances
Why asking someone out lowers your chances is what we try to answer in this article, scientifically. The psychology suggests it is also, in many situations, the approach most likely to fail. Not because directness is wrong. Not because women do not appreciate confidence. But because of what the formal ask actually does to the…
