Valentine’s Day is marketed as the happiest day for love — yet mental health research suggests it can be one of the heaviest days emotionally. Rates of loneliness, depressive rumination, social comparison, and relationship anxiety often rise in the days surrounding 14th February — particularly among students and young adults. The pressure to feel loved, chosen, and celebrated can intensify existing emotional vulnerabilities. But whether you’re single or in a relationship, this day does not...

Sexual assault does not end when the violence stops. For many survivors, that is when the real suffering begins. Long after the assault, people often ask, “Why can’t I just move on?”  The answer is simple and painful: because trauma changes you. It changes how your brain works, how your body responds to the world, and how safe you feel inside yourself. What survivors experience afterward is not weakness — it is the nervous system doing everything it can to survive something overwhelming. What...

Mathura — a city seeped in history from time immemorial. Known as the birthplace of Lord Krishna, its air hums with devotion, legends, and the faint sound of temple bells. I had always wanted to visit but somehow the chance never came. Then, at Triveni, one day sir suddenly proposed, “We should visit the Mathura Museum,” and I smiled. Initially, I thought I would stay at a hotel one day and come on my own the next day due to the taxing travels. Yet I knew I was neglecting my work for a month...