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The Beast And The Beauty Treatment
The Hulk was stirring next to me. I cast an uneasy glance towards where he sat, sprawled back in a leather recliner, hands hanging over the sides of the seat. The green goop on his face was trickling...
View ArticleLet's Not End Up Like The Man, The Boy And The Donkey
This is a lovely story that I am sure most of you must have heard when you were children. The other day my husband was narrating it to my younger son, and it struck me how very sensible and relevant...
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The Role Of Think Tanks In Generating Policy Ideas: An Indian View
In 2006, when I joined the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, fresh out of JNU and armed with a Ph.D., I harboured big ambitions towards instituting two kinds of connections;...
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Eat Beef All You Like, My Hindu Friends, But Please Spare The Desi Cow
To all my beef-eating Hindu brothers and sisters, This is a letter I hope you take to heart. I am not going to write about why meat is bad for you or that it is not Hindu to consume it. Instead, I'm...
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Things We All Learned In The Chennai Floods
Every one of us has a story. Everyone has a very dramatic story. And everyone has someone to whom they are hugely grateful. For me it is Gurumurthy, a corporation worker whose task it was to pump water...
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Why India Should Seek Abolition Of UN Veto Rather Than Permanent Membership
The just-concluded climate agreement at COP21 in Paris will require social peace for its effective implementation. Given that the world is facing a conflict scenario that has not been equalled since...
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Should 'Conditions Apply' In Love And Relationships?
In an attempt to make relationships more satisfying, humans tend to set conditions. In business, conditions help to protect the interests of the risk-taking party. But when set in relationships,...
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Here Is Why Some Attractive, Successful Men Marry 'Average' Women
Recently I got a message on Quora where a woman asked me this -- As soon as I read this message, I thought to myself, "I have felt this way too!" It is very common for women to judge themselves and...
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The Sitting Disease: It's Time To Stand Up For Our Health
Sedentary lifestyles and increased stress at work are clearly taking a toll on our bodies and minds. All around me I see people who are tired and look like they haven't had a good night's sleep in...
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We Let Community Health Workers And Parents Deliver Autism Interventions....
This month, where we have already marked World Disability Day, we can also welcome the publication, in The Lancet Psychiatry, of the first evaluation of a community health worker-delivered treatment...
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5 Ways To Make 2016 Your Lightest Year Yet
As we wrap up 2015 and open our arms to 2016, we are filled with optimism and motivation to make it our best year yet. While health-related resolutions tend to be the norm, it's important that such...
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'Israel And India Have A Lot In Common, Modi Must Visit Soon,' Says Phyllis...
Diplomacy has been the masterstroke of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, despite recent challenges with Nepal and Pakistan. Since May 2014, we have seen Modi's aggressive style of diplomacy with...
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Will China Join The Fight Against ISIS? The Answer Lies In The Xinjiang Question
A Chinese national was injured in the recent Paris attack. Of the people killed in the militant attack at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, some were executives of the state-owned China Railway...
View ArticleBeyond Sutras And Kama: India's Timeless Wisdom in Love, Relationships And...
Carl Jung's affirmation that contemporary theosophical dialectic is, to put it mildly, an oversimplified distillation of Eastern philosophy, conveys an oft-repeated truth about the obscured...
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How Inner Peace Can Change The World
The acts of those who spread violence, fear, and hate in the world make two things very clear. First, they show us that even if in one remote corner of the world there are people ready to act out...
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Making The Paris Climate Deal Work: Opportunities For India
The world has finally agreed to a global climate deal in Paris and it was followed by celebrations rather than theatrics, as was the case in Copenhagen. The Paris agreement is a strong framework to...
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Are We Seeing New Beginnings In Indo-Pak Ties?
In a significant development, the National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan recently met in Bangkok, Thailand. This was made possible due to the impromptu meeting between the prime ministers of...
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Podcast: Anuvab Pal & Kunaal Roy Kapur On Intolerance, Education And The...
Why Didn't I Give That Damn ATKT? Anuvab Pal then: "I don't need education. I'm an artiste!" (with a typical hand flourish). Anuvab now: "Why didn't I give my GRE?" Kunaal Roy Kapur then: "I don't...
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Band, Baaja, Bank Balance
There's something about an Indian wedding. Something that compels you to stay happy and jubilant in every moment of those three to four days. The genda phool that gladdens the heart and makes me want...
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It's Easier to Remove Plaque From Your Teeth Than Your Arteries
Within the medical community, there is some debate regarding the connection between periodontal disease and cardiac disease. Most believe strongly that periodontal, or gum, disease can aggravate and or...
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