I got my first 3-pointer ever! (In case you don’t play or follow basketball, a 3-pointer is a shot taken from this D area, and it requires considerable strength to get the ball that far :P) I have played basketball most of my childhood, was on the school team and we played some interschool competitions, and I was one of the shooters for the team. But I never could get the ball far enough to Read more…
I have sometimes wondered if making new music is possible anymore. Consider this- Spotify, according to recent data, maintains a database of 82 million songs. To put that into perspective, if I assume that every song is on average 2.5 mins long, I would need 390 years of non-stop listening to get through all the songs, once. And if that is not enough, 60,000 new songs are added on Spotify every day. It is just Read more…
If you’ve ever scrolled through health and wellness content on social media, you HAVE heard about dopamine, the supposed ‘reward’ or ‘pleasure’ chemical of the brain. You must have also heard about practising dopamine detox. Right off the bat, dopamine detoxes are NOT what you think, and they do NOT work the way you’re lead to believe at all. In fact, dopamine isn’t even fully responsible for pleasure. Here’s a very, very interesting study to Read more…
You might have heard Brad Pitt talk about how he has difficulty differentiating and remembering faces. He probably suffers from something termed ‘prosopagnosia‘ (don’t sweat trying to read it, it’s proso-pag-nosia), essentially ‘face blindness’. When Brad Pitt sees 2 different people, he might be able to recognize them by their voice, body language, gestures etc, but not by their facial features. Imagine functioning in the world like that! :O If you’re finding it hard to Read more…
I am a firm believer of the notion that all of humanity is one. At least that is what my conscious mind believes. But then this morning, on my way to celebrate Independence Day and choosing what to wear, I felt uncomfortable wearing a white suit with green dupatta, because it felt symbolic of Pakistan more than India. Now I am absolutely NOT anti-Pakistan at all. I frequently get into very heated arguments with family Read more…
I AM ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS ABOUT MY FUTURE Right upfront, I have no idea what I will be doing even 2 years later. I am more certain about what I do NOT want to be doing. I do not feel like practising medicine for the rest of my life. Studying MBBS at one of India’s top colleges, and having spent my life surrounded by doctors (practically my entire family), I have come to realise that I Read more…
Hey everyone! I am so glad you visited! This website should have been created at least 6 years ago- because that is how long I’ve been dreaming about creating my own space on the internet. But since that didn’t happen, I believe that the second best time to start out is NOW. So hey all, I am Mridula Garg, and currently I am a final year student at Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, India. Perhaps Read more…