by Editorial Team | Nov 3, 2021 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
India produces lakhs of doctors and engineers, along with thousands who complete their PhD every year. Yet we contribute to only 5.31% of the world’s research output. It is a dismal picture , as far as innovation goes. Well, the roots of this problem are far deeper...
by Editorial Team | Oct 23, 2021 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
A pessimist tends to expect things to turn out poorly or to ponder over what did not go well. However we can all become optimists by adjusting the way we see things. They do not see everything rosy, but just choose to focus on what is good about a situation and what...
by Editorial Team | Oct 9, 2021 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
A critique at poverty Poverty is generally considered to be the condition of not having access to wealth or commodities. This is a result of low income. Increasing poverty leads to increase in crimes, which people are forced to resort to, in order to earn. So rate of...
by Editorial Team | Oct 8, 2021 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
The need Today, the world faces a grave and seemingly impossible challenge – to overcome climate change and reduce carbon emission levels. For decades, we have continued to ruthlessly exploit and ruin nature. Carbon dioxide and other pollutants are being...
by Editorial Team | Oct 2, 2021 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
The term ” Optimism’ embraces two closely related concepts. The first is the inclination to hope, while the second is the tendency to believe that we live in “the best of all possible worlds”. Hope and optimism With ‘hope’ comes a...
by Editorial Team | Sep 26, 2021 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
The goodness in boredom We often talk of ‘boredom’, but in reality we do not allow our minds to get bored. There is always a tendency to seek an escape route to engage our minds, be it mobile phones, Social media, YouTube or Netflix. But just as even land...
