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Lately we have observed that children are more attached to a single parent and ignorance towards the love of the other. This happens especially when the child is the only sibling. Why does the child have preferences? Is this something that's got to do with the parents?

With the embarrassing SCAMS and Corruption Cases, the Indian population has lost faith in the system and this has mainly affected the youth who ignore voting and political involvement due to this. Is this the right attitude that the youth of the next generation need to nurture? Can they be...

Classical Indian Philosophy accepts perception (pratyakṣa), or perceptual experience, as the primary means of knowledge (pramāṇa). Perception (pratyakṣa) is etymologically rooted in the sense-faculty or the sense-organ (akṣa) and can be translated as sensory awareness, while pramāṇa, on the...

Loosely speaking, behaviorism is an attitude. Strictly speaking, behaviorism is a doctrine. Wilfred Sellars (1912–89), the distinguished philosopher, noted that a person may qualify as a behaviorist, loosely or attitudinally speaking, if they insist on confirming “hypotheses about psychological...

A lot was said about the End of Days and the Apocalypse. Of course, all that was proven wrong, but what made people predict this in the first place?

From a perspective of learning, behaviour is the expression of the differences between our concepts and our world. When the concepts students hold match the classroom-learning environment, they are in their own comfort zone, and they typically feel comfortable. When there is a mismatch, they...

Many scientists link emotions with outward behavior whereas I prefer to link emotions with feelings and thought processes. I’m uncomfortable with the emotions – behavior link because it infers a kind of causal relationship, happening at an unconscious level. The focus is on what people do rather...

Many scientists link emotions with outward behavior whereas I prefer to link emotions with feelings and thought processes. I’m uncomfortable with the emotions – behavior link because it infers a kind of causal relationship, happening at an unconscious level. The focus is on what people do rather...

Defining the Issues: Stimulus from the outside world or from inside your mind turns on a picture we call PERCEPTION. The perception is affected by the concepts we already hold. This explains why different people perceive the same event differently. The Blue Room - The Room of Imagination •...

A few common Excel Formula Errors: 1) ###### - The column is not wide enough to display data (for numbers). Date or time may be negative. 2) #VALUE! - Occurs when the wrong type of argument is used in a function or formula. For example, there is text in a formula that requires a number or...

The following are a few Computer Terminologies we come across: 1) PC Optimization – Improves the performance of the computer. 2) Back up of Data – To secure loss of data. 3) Internet and Networking – DSL: Digital Subscriber Line, Dial Up, Wireless, LAN – Local Area Network, WAN – Wide Area...

It is often noticed that individuals working in night shifts tend to lose out on their time schedule. This not only affects their time management but also their productivity and health. This drives me to wonder if night shifts/rotational shifts affect am individual's daily routine?

A Career in the BPO Industry. The BPO industry has evolved over the years from being a call centric industry to a matured analytic sector. In the year 1999, when the BPO industry first evolved, 85% of the services were related to voice based operations. 7 years down the line, only 35% accounted...

Students who are completed Engineering usually end up working in BPOs and Call Centers. I have friends who have taken up work in a BPO concern as the donations that they need to pay to consultants to take up an engineering job is high and the salary paid by the companies are way beyond less and...

Recently I have come across many individuals who have taken up various fields of study however once they complete it, they start their professional career elsewhere. This drives me to ponder if they take up education as a compulsory requirement or if the opportunities to excel in the respective...

Help Desks have rapidly taken over the ITES sector with secure and transparent environments to provide effective service. A help Desk is a software introduced to help organizations provide technical support to their customers from their desks. This is done by taking control of the customer's...

Sleep is an essential in our never ending strive to maintain good health. Lack of sleep can cause Fatigue and Stress, Heart Complications, Nervous Breakdowns and also fatal consequences. Recently corporate India had a sound wake up call due to the unfortunate demise of Ranjan Das, the CEO of...

I've come across several women who are forced to give up education as they are made to believe that marriage is a career!! They are trained to be a housewife with free classes on cooking, cleaning and all other house work!! They believe there's no point spending money on educating a girl child...

Are Students forced to take up Engineering against their will only because their family thinks that its the best option? I'm a trainer and have been training for a while now. I come across individuals almost in evey batch who now have no dreams to chase as it was already pre-decided by Family...

The Art of Poetry "The complexity of our mind bears no definition and random thoughts and creativity bears no boundaries." Poetry has always been a passion since my childhood where I used to end up writing random stuff on school notebooks and textbook paperback. With emotions taking a strong...