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Sonal Kalra

Sonal Kalra

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A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Quit the guilt and talk to your parents

You could be one among the many children, a son or a daughter, or you could be living with or away from them – at some point in life, the guilt of not doing enough for parents is bound to strike.

Updated on Aug 29, 2020 12:38 IST

A Calmer You, By Sonal Kalra: Stubborn people around? Here’s how to retain your composure

I don’t know if there’s a medical name for this disease, but I’ve been saying the same thing — in a polite, preaching, encouraging, threatening, pleading tone — to some people, for their own good, but they JUST DON’T LISTEN.

Updated on Aug 22, 2020 13:35 IST

A Calmer You, By Sonal Kalra: Boast is the secret of my energy

This week’s column is for all of you who get knots in the stomach when those around you flaunt knowledge about things that sound as familiar to you as the child protection laws in Sierra Leone.

Updated on Aug 16, 2020 14:13 IST

A calmer you, by Sonal Kalra: Chalo beta, namaste karo!

Healthy interpersonal communication, be it with friends or colleagues or relatives, is all about it being both ways.

Updated on Aug 8, 2020 12:40 IST

A Calmer you, by Sonal Kalra: So you think you’re cool, huh?

Do you know that the formal dictionary has only one meaning of ‘cool’? And that is: moderately cold.

Updated on Aug 2, 2020 03:52 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: You got just one life and it’s short, so spend it your way

Let’s talk about the stress you are facing on account of friends teasing you for speaking or behaving like the members of the other gender.

Updated on Mar 7, 2020 11:37 IST

A Calmer You, By Sonal Kalra: They Taught You ABC, Now Help Your Folks With Tech

Did they shout at you because you couldn’t fluently frame sentences while you were still learning the alphabet? So, now that the roles stand reversed and you get to be the teacher, you better treat them with the same love and patience that they showed for you

Updated on Mar 1, 2020 07:13 IST

A Calmer You, By Sonal Kalra: Don’t buckle under the pressure to marry

I toh anyway firmly come from the ‘shaadi is barbaadi public school’, but, I recently realised what a tension a wedding can be, for the bride or the groom’s single friends.

Updated on Feb 22, 2020 13:19 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Stop repeating the same thing

It is people who have the habit of repeating the same thing over and over again — and not junk food — that has to be the biggest cause of hypertension in the world.

Updated on Feb 15, 2020 09:00 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Messed up phrases mess up the mind

Some of the most common expressions we throw in so randomly into our day-to-day language don’t mean anything at all. Some are downright dumb.

Updated on Feb 8, 2020 08:01 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Are you also tired of being angry on social media?

In the past few days, ever since students became the focus of a lot of politics and debates over nationalism, a lot of bitterness and negativity seems to have crept into the common man’s life.

Updated on Feb 1, 2020 12:56 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: How to get even with odd people

We’ve all grown up on moral science lessons about patiently waiting for bad to turn good someday.

Updated on Jan 18, 2020 09:44 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Sachcha pyaar, really?

Most of us latch on to the first relationship that seems reasonably okay to us, and try to squeeze-fit it into the sachcha pyaar mould.

Updated on Jan 4, 2020 12:23 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Beware, being popular has unpopular pitfalls

Slowly you begin to realise that even those for whom you are crossing boundaries to be extra nice, consider it to be their right and take it for granted

Updated on Dec 28, 2019 07:53 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Quit the guilt and talk to your parents

You could be one among the many children, a son or a daughter, or you could be living with or away from them – at some point in life, the guilt of not doing enough for parents is bound to strike.

Updated on Dec 21, 2019 12:46 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Mind your movie manners

Some movie-watchers decide to leave their manners, rather than their brains, home.

Updated on Dec 14, 2019 10:15 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Say a big ‘thank you’ to all those jealous folks

Someone being jealous of you is the biggest proof that there’s something right, and good, happening in your life.

Updated on Dec 7, 2019 14:01 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Meeting or date, better never than late!

No matter what excuse we stammer and stutter, there’s actually nothing ‘valid’ about turning up late for something that’s scheduled for a specific time.

Updated on Nov 23, 2019 12:43 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Kill bitterness with small acts of joy

You see, we Indians are beautiful at helping

Updated on Nov 16, 2019 14:35 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Till fights do us apart

So, I thought why not take a concrete step forward in improving your love life. No, I didn’t ask you to rush and get shaktivardhak (energising) capsules.

Updated on Nov 9, 2019 09:22 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: When Diwali gives life lessons

I think this whole jingbang of exchanging gifts during the festival gives us some very important lessons in life

Updated on Oct 25, 2019 13:38 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: What to never say to your woman

What exactly is it that men say to the female species that guarantees hell on earth

Updated on Oct 19, 2019 09:10 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Can I have a tissue, please?

I continue to suffer from a phobia of those who have a phobia of germs.

Updated on Oct 12, 2019 10:09 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Is work working you up?

Emotions are not meant for the workplace.

Updated on Oct 5, 2019 10:48 IST

Sadhguru: What’s wrong with actors and celebrities supporting us?

Spiritual leader and author Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.

Updated on Oct 1, 2019 11:01 IST

A Calmer You by Sonal Kalra: Love is not ownership!

Here are some calmness tips for those dealing with ‘helicopter’ partners, always hovering overhead and raking up loads of noise.

Updated on Sep 28, 2019 11:34 IST

A young woman who played an aging Kasturba

Veteran actor Rohini Hattangadi at her residence in Mumbai.

Updated on Oct 1, 2020 13:36 IST

Laughing away the pain, one STEP at a time

One of the few ‘medical clowns’ in India, the woman runs a volunteer group — the Clownselors to do distraction therapy for free at a government hospital for kids.

Updated on Sep 21, 2019 09:34 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: How to fake-flash your IQ!

I found myself standing between two gentlemen who were behaving as if they are in a race to win some imaginary episode of ‘India’s most intellectual’.

Updated on Sep 14, 2019 10:41 IST

A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Break up but don’t break down

Those who are in a relationship are equally dukhi if not more than the one who aren’t.

Updated on Sep 7, 2019 11:38 IST

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