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10 2021 | Spectrum | Volume 14 Number 4
10 2020 | Spectrum | Volume 14 Number 4
Breaking Records and Barriers Virtually

ISHIKA GHOSH
PRIYANKA SRINIVAS

The Directorate of Student
Affairs (DSA) at SRMIST, in
association with the National
Youth Council of India, held a
virtual yoga session recently.
Being the first of its kind, this
event was conducted to create
an award-winning record for
the maximum number of people
Plath won the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1982 holding the Diamond Pose
Sylvia Plath and (Vajrasana) on a virtual platform. Receiving the world record certificate
The event was hosted by V
Vision.
her depression Mr. Dinesh Kashikar, Chief ‘Book of Records’ including Student Affairs at SRM. Many
The event was presided by record holders of major National Dr. T. Mythili, the Director of

Guest of the event, and a close ‘India Book of Records’, ‘Nepal nuggets of information about
ANAHITA GUPTA figurative language almost disciple of Gurudev Shri Shri Book of Records’ etc. meet to yoga and meditation were
Ravishankar. Mr. Kashikar gave claim the title of ‘Asia Book provided by the chief guest,
disappeared from her writing-
Depression - a single definition replaced by rough, fragmented a welcoming speech that reflected of Records’ Holder. From 9 am who conducted an energizing
is not enough to describe this sentences revealing the rawness on his journey as a Director at onwards, the attempt began and yoga session of 45 minutes.
the Sri Yoga Institute, India. It turned out to be a huge success Overall, with the support of
illness that more often than not of her mental state. Though was followed by an introductory after its completion 10 minutes the DSA and SRMIST, the
drains the life out of a person. Plath’s depression- believed to
Sylvia Plath, a 19th-century be hereditary- was inevitable, session on the Asia Book of later. The event continued, with entire event was informative
poet, novelist, and short-story her death wasn’t. Through Records, a platform where the a speech by the Guest of Honour, and record-breaking.
writer was diagnosed with her final episode, triggered
clinical depression for most mainly by marital crises, she
of her adult life. The theme of still remained professionally
suicide and depression were active, writing daily. Her semi-
embedded deep in her works. autobiographical book “The
It is not surprising to note that Bell Jar” was published to tepid
artists like her often derive from reviews, mere weeks before she
their personal experiences and killed herself. That became one
grievances. of the various factors that finally
led her to commit suicide, on
Plath experienced her first
brush with depression when February 11, 1963, at the young
her father died just days after age of 30.
her eighth birthday leading her “I am only thirty,” the narrator
to write the poem “Electra on of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poem,
Azalea Path”. She made her “Lady Lazarus,” announces
first suicide attempt at the age early. Sylvia Plath remains one
of 20, later writing that she of the greatest poets despite her
“blissfully succumbed to the small body of work. Now, all
whirling blackness that I honestly we have left is a raw image,
believed was eternal oblivion.” sometimes blurry, of her life
A month before this, a creative preserved in her art - her poems. Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
The Psychology of Colours

Reporting for Spectrum
NANDINI NIGAM green colour and holds back the their trade link. Colours have
rest of the colours. People on a huge impact on our lives. An
• Contributing reports should be confined John Ruskin once said, the ascetic path do not want to experiment was conducted in
to a maximum of 250 words and must be “Everything that you can see wear anything as they do not an elementary school where the
written by students only. in the world around you presents wish to add anything new to walls of the classrooms which
itself to your eyes only as an themselves. They just want to were once painted beige were
• Accompanying pictures must have captions. arrangement of patches of work with what they have. The repainted pink. After a few
Pictures without caption will not be published different colours.” Every day colour that we reflect becomes months, drawings showcased
we see a total of seven million a part of our aura. Colours not the impact of this change. The
• Request for coverage in Spectrum by and the colours signify different only influence us emotionally by smiles were wider, and paintings
its editorial team must be made well in things spiritually, psychologically, providing different feelings like looked happier. Colours influence
advance with an accompanying note and and emotionally. Colours’ relaxation, warmth, calmness, our minds. A person works much
anger etc. but also are key in more creatively and effectively
the invitation to sridhark@srmist.edu.in significance varies between fields of branding and marketing. in a blue room than a white
cultures and religions.
A study suggested that eighty one. Culinary geniuses make
• Coverage of a certain event or receipt of Sadhguru’s definition of percent of brand recognition sure to use colours to make
an article does not guarantee publication. colour is that colour is not is due to colours. In 2013, their dishes look more pleasing.
what it is but what it reflects. Google acquired an income Colours enhance what lies on
-Editor What one reflects, becomes of two hundred million dollars the surface while reflecting
one’s colour. The grass reflects just by changing the colour of what lies within.