Srinagar, March 4 -- You don't need to be a mathematician to understand human unrest. You just need to remember a night when your body was tired, but your mind kept pacing-replaying a conversation, worrying about tomorrow, or asking the same painful question again and again: Why can't I feel settled?

Behind that restlessness-whether it looks like anxiety, irritation, impatience, or a heavy sense of unease-there is a quiet "math" at work. Not the kind of math with complicated formulas on a board, but the kind that runs inside every human being like an invisible calculator: comparing expectations with reality, measuring uncertainty, and deciding whether the situation feels safe, controllable, or threatening.

1) Unrest begins when reality ...