Stuttering causes shyness in speaking. We are afraid to attend phone calls as we come face to face with the problem. In stuttering, the person repeats the same word several times. Stammering is a fault in speech and it happens suddenly when we are unconscious about our flow of words or when we speak quite fast and when we become excited. Dr. Gerald Maguire, a psychiatrist at the University of California, Irvine, wants to cure the ailment. This ailment afflicts him and a million oth...

We all know that meditation brings peace of mind and calms us down. I regularly practice medication. I know that it has positive effect on relaxing the body and it drastically reduces stress. Our body gets relaxed in meditation when we focus the mind on a particular thought, image or repetitive action. Our mind begins to loosen up and our body becomes relaxed. We can wonder how all these happen. Actually there is a lot of chemical fusion in our brain during meditation which leads...

Depression results from low self-esteem and a sense of inferiority. The person should be given supportive therapy and motivational counseling. The person must be encouraged to set goal for himself and to work towards achieving them. Depression is a mental illness in which a person experiences deep, unshakable sadness and diminished interest in nearly all activities. People also use the term depression to describe the temporary sadness, loneliness, or blues that everyone feels from t...

For a long time, I did not get any time to write something of my own. I went to Sundarban, a mangrove forest in West Bengal. As there was tremendous work pressure, I needed time to relax! So I opted for a short trip to Sundarban. It was 2 days and 1 night trip with the West Bengal Government Tourism. I wrote about this trip before and now I am writing about my life. For the past 3 months, I have joined a distance learning course. It is postgraduate diploma in Hospital M...

During my higher secondary level (class XII), I studied anthropology as additional subject instead of maths. I studied science stream in Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah in West Bengal. I studied hard to get this fascinating subject as Hons so that I can pursue higher studies. I did my graduation in anthropology. It was quite fascinating to study anthropology. I studied the prehistoric man, measured the skulls in anthropometry, measured living human beings in somatoscopy. I st...

Today my brother came from London!! He lives in Jersey. His name is Subrata Banerjee. He is quite a sociable guy having an account in Yahoo 360 and Orkut. He works at a company called Infrasoft, whose branch is in Jersey. Jersey is a suburb of London. He lives with his friends. Infrasoft, his company, is based in Mumbai. He is an Oracle database administrator. He loves us a lot and so he came to India for 15 days. His father being a retired joint zonal manager of Bank of India was p...

Mr. Joseph works in a medical transcription company. Once this company used to give a big advertisement of half page in The Sunday Statesman. It was really a costly advertisement. It carried comments from the company employees. He saw such big advertisements when he was about to join its training. An advertisement was also given regularly at Times of India. At the time of training, the fee was Rs. 20,000. It was a 6 month training. He joined the training. The company was giving tra...

Peter often travels by train from Kolkata to Mumbai. He works in a private firm called Dream Merchant. He is a marketing executive. In his home, he has his wife and son. He lives at Dhakuria in Kolkata. His company sells insurance. Generally he has no problem traveling alone in a train. He usually works in Kolkata and its adjoining areas. But this is the first time he had to leave Kolkata for his work. On 31st December 2006, he boarded the train headed towards Mumbai. It was ...

One day Tom was moving along the road. He was returning from office. He worked in a multinational company. It was around 9 p.m. He had just completed his afternoon shift. The road was desolate. Cool breeze was blowing. Suddenly a black cat crossed him. He stopped for a while as he knew that there is misfortune if a black cat crosses you! All of a sudden he saw a scream of an old man from a house…..the man was shouting…. “HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HEL...

It was a cool dark night. Robinson was walking along the road tired after a whole day’s work in a factory. He works in a automobile factory at Africa. He was walking feeling quite fatigued. On this day, he had a dispute in his factory. His boss, Mr. John Simpson, will not allow him to leave one hour early from office. He has vomited food 2 times. He is working in the morning shift. His shift starts from 7 a.m. It ends at 4 a.m. but due to work pressure in spite of his sickness, he w...

Generally the back office workers do their job even during festivals. We worked during the Kali Puja (a puja where Maa Kali, Goddess of Strength, with the idol portraying an angry woman with tongue protruding out with her husband, Lord Shiva under her foot and with decapitated heads made into garlands.) March 3 was celebrated in this year 2007 as Holi in India. On this day, we celebrate this day by smearing colors at each other. Holi is usually celebrated among friends and family circle. ...

Job burn-out occurs when someone does the same job for quite a long time. It may be 2 to 3 years or more. The person gets irritated in his job and many side-effects develop. Research shows that they are prone to develop type-2 diabetes. This study was done in Israel on 677 subjects. The study was done among male, middle-aged workers. The study shows that those affected by burn-out are twice as likely to develop that condition. When the effects of blood pressure level was eliminated...

Turkish researchers have found that spearmint tea can help remove excess facial and body hair from body. Using women want to get rid of the unwanted hair to look beautiful. This finding will throw new light in the beautification of body. The study shows that women who have excess body hair (hirsuitism) after drinking 2 cups of herbal tea a day for 5 days showed significant decrease in body hair. Actually it reduces the free testosterone. Testosterone is a hormone secreted in males fo...