Dr Benazir Patil

IQ or EQ: What is more important?

January 10, 2024

Emotional intelligence has gained prominence within educational circles, standing alongside Intelligence Quotient (IQ) as a crucial factor in shaping well-rounded and accomplished individuals. EQ, or Emotional Quotient, is defined as the ability to recognize, utilize, comprehend, and manage emotions in a healthy and effective manner. This skill empowers people to...

Do women deserve equality?

September 21, 2023

All contemporary societies emerged from agrarian roots. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the political influence directly correlated with male endurance and physical strength. Men’s roles encompassed warfare, hunting, construction, and agriculture precisely due to their physical capabilities. Ages ago, women’s societal roles were not solely dictated by male biases, rather...

Empowering change through informed and compassionate choice navigation

September 18, 2023

Each of us strives to carve out a unique path towards a brighter future, filled with happiness and fulfillment. However, the available choices at our disposal do not always lead us to the desired outcomes, often surprising us with unexpected results. Numerous factors play a pivotal role in shaping our...

Caste or religion? Caste or class? What is it?

June 10, 2023

Widely recognised for its traditional village life, India has had a hierarchical social structure which continues to manifest itself more in rural areas than in urban. Despite industrialization and varied other phenomenon, these age-old portrayals persist. In the interim, few centuries of British rule, employed these categories like caste, village,...

Free will and power to shape destiny

May 16, 2023

For ages, prophets and theologians have talked about free will and destiny. Destiny, often explained as a predetermined course of events, is attributed to a divine power or force. It signifies that certain events and outcomes are fated to happen and cannot be changed, regardless of the actions or choices...

Do we want to justify the angry young man?

December 10, 2022

Once upon a time, the image of an angry young man was depicted heroically and the nation applauded his guts. But today, anger and aggression among youth is not only a challenge but it continues to be an unstoppable discussion. Aggression is the delivery of an aversive stimulus from one...

Should digital equity be a national priority?

November 26, 2022

C onnectivity — through internet— is a major differentiator between developed and developing nations today. It supposedly informs where the power resides. Twenty years ago, when it was first used, it took time for the world to understand what it meant. And even today, it means different things to different...

In search of healthy cities in India

October 24, 2022

One of the studies published in 2019 equated the city-dweller’s activity of inhaling air pollution to smoking a pack of cigarettes each day for 29 years. This is supposedly the indication for the health of our lungs alone, without saying much about the impact on the rest of our body....

Ohh, the poor rich

October 22, 2022

No existing society generates enough wealth for everyone to be rich. From antiquity, the world has had a handful of people who are rich, and the rest are always trying their best to get themselves added to those few. Most of us imagine that just about all our problems would...

Gen Z: Are we losing them?

October 8, 2022

“Young adults are ‘too relaxed’ and do not care about the crisis.” The pandemic branded digital natives as careless, unconcerned, and many other characteristics. Two years on, and a bunch of universities and researchers have curiously been intruding into the lives of Gen Z (those born in the late nineties,...

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