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Book Review: Dealer to Healer - A Modern Tale of a F*cked Up Male

Introduction Some books aim to inspire. Others aim to comfort. Dealer to Healer does neither in the conventional sense. Instead, it confronts. It unsettles. It pulls the reader into a raw, unfiltered journey of a man navigating trauma, addiction, identity, and ultimately, transformation. This is not a polished self-help manual—it is a deeply personal, often chaotic narrative that mirrors the very mind it attempts to heal. From the very first chapter, the tone is set with brutal honesty. The image of a four-year-old child holding a rock, torn between love and fear as domestic violence unfolds, is not just a memory—it becomes the emotional blueprint for everything that follows. This opening is not easy to read, but it is powerful. It establishes a central truth of the book: our earliest wounds often shape the paths we unconsciously walk later in life.  A Journey Through Chaos and Escape As the narrative shifts from childhood trauma to adulthood, the reader is taken across continents—...

The Philosophy of Stoicism: Part 1

Introduction Stoicism is a great greek philosophy that deals with self-discipline and mind control. This philosophy helps us to bear all types of pains in our life. Stoicism was popularised by Zeno of Citium who was born in the Greek city of Citium. He started studying philosophy after he lost everything in a ship wreckage near Athens. He swam to Athens and started roaming around. As he doesn’t have anything to do hence he visited a bookshop and saw a book of Socrates. He started asking questions pertaining to Socrates' philosophy from the book shop owner. The Book shop owner suggested that he must visit Xenophon who was also a cynic philosopher. Zeno started asking philosophical questions from Xenophon and became his student. Thereafter Zeno started studying greek philosophy under the guidance of Xenophon. After the long study of the philosophy, Zeno started teaching his own students. As he and his students used to discuss his philosophy at Stoa Poikile, Athens hence his philosoph...