What is The Joyful Peach?
By Mehr Sohal In our modern society, whenever one opens a newspaper or some form of digital/print media, the pages are flooded with...
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Peach-isms
Thoughts. Epiphanies. Opinions.
- Mar 29
- 4 min
Toxic Relationships: The College Version
By Riya Kapoor Who are they to reduce my life’s work to 5 minutes on a piece of paper? Who are they to make a snap judgment on me without...
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- Jan 29, 2022
- 2 min
Why are Pets Good for your Well-being?
By Tanaya Mehta George Elliot once said, “Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticism”. I...
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- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
Parasocial Relationships
By Samah Syed The extent of parasocial relationships is one that might be hard to decipher simply due to its unbeknownst presence in...
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- Oct 14, 2021
- 3 min
A Biopic: More Appealing than Fiction
By Tanaya Mehta Have you ever watched a movie based on a true event and been so fascinated by the stories of heroes and individuals who...
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- Aug 14, 2021
- 3 min
Megamind: An Under-appreciated Masterpiece
By Skanda Swaminathan As most of you know, I have been delving into the world of animated movies a lot more recently, and have begun to...
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- Jul 27, 2021
- 2 min
What COVID Made me Realise...
By Anshika Bansal COVID has been a tough time for all of us as it was something totally unexpected and there has never been anything like...
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- Jul 18, 2021
- 2 min
Why Does Discrimination Survive?
You’ve got to learn– oppression is not a phase. It’s not a trend or a quick thing. Oppression is old and ancient, and uprooting it is...
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- Jul 13, 2021
- 5 min
Mario Odyssey: Video game Review
By Skanda Swaminathan 'Mario Odyssey' is the personification of joy itself. You just can’t not be happy playing this game. If you don’t...
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- Jul 8, 2021
- 2 min
Chocolate During World War 2
By Yuvika Goel While most of us know of Chocolate as an indulgent, delicious confection, very few of us know about the historic use of...
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- Jul 8, 2021
- 3 min
‘Investing’ for Teenagers
By Mudit Kohli “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” - Warren Buffet. The idiom goes,...
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- Jul 6, 2021
- 3 min
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Review by Skanda Swaminathan Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is perhaps the greatest animated movie ever made, and even one of the...
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- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
Raya and The Last Dragon
By Anshika Bansal Disney has done it once again! One of Disney's most recent movies, Raya and the Last Dragon is magical, yet relevant to...
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- Jun 27, 2021
- 2 min
Supporting Small Businesses and Organisations
By Urvashi Menon We here at The Joyful Peach have, and will continue to support, and endorse the practice of supporting small businesses...
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- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
The Importance of Mental Health in Teenagers
By Tanaya Mehta “Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘we,’ Illness becomes Wellness.” According to...
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- Jun 25, 2021
- 2 min
Bihar's First Transgender Shelter
By Shriya Karuturi Once again we stand in awe as Bihar leads the way in trans rights! It started in 2019 when the state announced a jail...
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- Jun 20, 2021
- 2 min
Book Talk: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
By Mehr Sohal I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is one of those timeless pieces of literature that most have heard about,...
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- Jun 6, 2021
- 3 min
Book Talk: Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
By Mehr Sohal If you love Fredrick Backman, this novel may be a let down. But if you haven’t read Beartown or A Man Called Ove, you’re in...
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- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
COVID Lockdown Entries
By Nandisha Gupta, 23d April 2021 Lockdown came in midst of a whole lot of things. Work projects were on my mind, and a good deal of...
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- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
Does All Sugar Kill?
By Nandisha Gupta, April 22, 2021 How many of you believe brown sugar is better than white sugar? Do you think honey or jaggery are...
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- Jan 11, 2021
- 4 min
Significance of Failure
By Mahi Sastry An equation depends on the catalyst you use. But, what makes an equation legitimate? So far in my journey, I have grown in...
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- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
"Go Memorize a Poem"
In response to the following article from 'The Atlantic'– https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/go-memorize-poem/614692/ By...
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- Oct 23, 2020
- 2 min
Quit Earth Movement?
With the US Space Agency's plan to establish long-term presence on the moon, are we approaching a **'Quit Earth Movement'? By Mehr Sohal...
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- Sep 27, 2020
- 3 min
Is your Skin Tone also like Milky Tea?
The words of an [unfortunately] brown girl By Mehr Sohal Milky tea. Crispy fried chicken. Cold coffee. Chocolate. If the above food and...
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- Sep 9, 2020
- 3 min
Will Love Make you Happy?
By Mehr Sohal Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-design/201502/will-love-make-you-happy "Will Love Make You...
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- Jul 29, 2020
- 2 min
Inverted Art– "Not just a style, it's a message to be told"
Art form practiced by Jerry Rodriguez By Mehr Sohal Self-taught artist, Jerry Rodriguez (@ijerryrodriguez), has adopted an inverted art...
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- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
What do you Hope to Find over the Rainbow?
By Siya Arora Over the rainbow? When I think of the ‘rainbow’, my mind immediately imagines all things colourful, happy, beautiful,...
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- Jul 3, 2020
- 3 min
If Only COVID-19 Could Tell Us Who’s Better– The Media or the Government?
Please send us a WhatsApp message so we know who to trust in this pandemic By Mehr Sohal In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis in India (and...
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- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Iron Flower
By Samyuktha Reddy Her wispy white hair slept like the snow capped mountains strong and resilient. She didn't use any colour, but...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 4 min
Focusing on Well-Being
Need of the hour during this pandemic By Mehr Sohal There is no doubt that amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the well-being of people is at...
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- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Dealing with Insomnia or Quarantine-induced Sleeplessness
By Mehr Sohal I recently read an article in The Atlantic titled 'An Ode to Insomnia' by James Parker. And I truly resonated with it on a...
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- Jun 14, 2020
- 2 min
'Queen of Ice' by Devika Rangachari
Book Review By Mehr Sohal I wrote this review a year or two ago, but I believe the book is still extremely relevant in 2020, and is an...
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- Jun 13, 2020
- 2 min
Life is But a Dream?
By Mehr Sohal Do you ever have these epiphanic moments of profound realization in the oddest of places? While taking a shower, while...
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- Jun 11, 2020
- 4 min
A Hairbush is Not a Gun
Review of 'The Hate U Give' by Angie Thomas By Kriti Sarawgi Racism is not dead. Comical YouTube videos, wordy Instagram captions, and...
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- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
'Morning Treasure'
By Nandisha Gupta When you see the hazy, yellow, hot burning ball with the streak of orange When you see the thin, scattered clouds...
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- Jun 5, 2020
- 1 min
Lost the Battle, Won the War
By Ananya Pritam We all fall. We all get hurt. It’s okay. Some of us only scrape our knees, but some of us break our bones. In the end,...
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