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Reasons I love Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga yoga is a practice created by Sri.K. Pattabhi Jois consisting of six series, and each series contains its own sequence of asanas. In the traditional practice of Ashtanga, called Mysore...
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How We Made Our Childhood Romance Survive
My husband and I complete 16 years together today. My vanity forces me to clarify that we have been married only 7 years, the rest was a bit of friendship, childhood romance, agony-filled courtship and...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister, You Failed To Sell Us Your Digital Un-Freedom
Digital India has swept the imagination of the 'modern' Indian along with the 'development' paradigm of invest (read 'make') in India under the present BJP government. Surprisingly, this package, what...
View ArticleSix Steps You Can Take To Cope With Anxiety
Anxiety is typically described as a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe. Most of us experience anxiety at some stage in our lives. For some of us, however, anxiety can...
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Charlie Hebdo And Making A Caricature Of Tragedy
The attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 prompted worldwide outrage and fuelled an impassioned debate on the freedom of speech. It also gave birth to the famous #JeSuisCharlie...
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Falling In Love - The 1990's Way
Social media has altered a lot of things in our lives. Love, and falling in love, is one of them. Falling in love these days, and expressing it to the other person, is convenient, discreet, and...
View ArticleWhat A New Consumer Protection Law Will Mean For E-Commerce Companies, Online...
The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 may be replaced by the new Consumer Protection Bill 2015 that will also incorporate e-commerce. This proposed bill could replace the 29-year-old law and recognise the...
View ArticleI Do Now I Don't
I am the sort of person who struggles to decide whether to have strawberry ice cream or caramel. I remember sitting cross-legged in the 399 Park Avenue office in Manhattan, bringing to life what I had...
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This Is Why I Feel The Indian Super League Is Here To Stay
(c)Tushar Dhara Season 2 of the Indian Super League just kicked off and it looks like football is taking off in India. The matches last year attracted a lot of new fans and if some reports are to be...
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More 'Iqbals' And Less 'Fanaas': How Bollywood Can Take On Religious Intolerance
India and the US are similar in many subtle ways which we don't easily recognise, for example, the cinematic portrayal of non-majority communities. While the typical Hollywood protagonist has...
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Food Security Act May Be Too Little Too Late For Parched Jharkhand
The last day of September was the final deadline set by the central government to implement the National Food Security Act (NFSA). On paper, after seven earlier postponements, the Jharkhand government...
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Five Easy Ways To Make Your Family's Diet Healthier
This article is from The Swaddle. Nowadays, there's an increased level of awareness about toxins in the food we consume each day. Everywhere you look, there's a new study telling you that an ordinary...
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Goodbye Prince Charming
Fairy tales are intended to teach certain lessons to children. Many of the classics tell the story of a powerful, gallant and handsome man swooping in to rescue a damsel in distress. Once in the...
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Why Russia May Win The Game For Influence In Syria
So, what exactly is the plot in Syria? For years now, the country, known to the world for the ancient Palmyra ruins, now in the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), has been lying in...
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The Shameful Double Standards Of India's Intelligentsia On Secularism And...
The growing chorus of high-decibel protest from Sahitya Akademi awardees against the perceived rise of intolerance and a threat to free speech in the country serves to underline the crass hypocrisy,...
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Why India Should Pay More Than Just Lip Service To Modi's 'Swachh Bharat'
In the euphoria of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Silicon Valley, few people noticed that he did a far more important thing when he was in New York. He 'raised a hand for the Global...
View ArticleHonb'le Prime Minister, Your Silence Is Killing This Nation
Mr Prime Minister, you have finally spoken on the Dadri lynching, but your deafening silence in general is holding the harmony of India to hostage. You've been in power for well over a year and in this...
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Can Narendra Modi's India Drive Global Growth?
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected with a mandate to revive the Indian economy, he brought upon himself and his colleagues in government a burden of expectation not only to fellow Indians...
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The Reviled Veil: Unfolding The Layers Of The Burqa
It lacks transparency and therefore cannot be entertained in public spaces, some say. It is too dangerous in the modern world, where seditious elements can use it to their advantage, many worry. Where...
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How Seymour Hersh's Bin Laden Theory Played Right Into The Hands Of The...
American journalist Seymour Hersh, whose reporting of the 1969 My Lai massacre in Vietnam made him a legend, created some buzz with his latest story in the London Review of Books about the US raid that...
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