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Bitten by the Dance Bug
MY EXERCISE REGIMEN now includes 40 minutes of vigorous dance in the kitchen just before bedtime.
The Sea Protector
An innovative ecotourism venture is helping combat shark fishing
Pain Forecast?
The truth about rainy days and our health
Do You Have This Liver Condition?
Up To One In Three People Have Something Called Nafld. But Many Of Them Have No Idea
The Power Conundrum
In Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan digs into the moral dilemmas of those with the power to change the world.
Refugees Performing Exercises, Kurukshetra, India, 1947
by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gelatin silver print
VISION QUEST
This family is travelling the world-before the kids lose their vision to a rare genetic condition
A Soldier's Ghost Story
The World War II veteran had a mysterious visitor who showed up at his bedside with a clear, comforting message
ADRIFT
When his boat struck a reef and sank into the Caribbean, Don Cavers jumped on to a life raft and watched as the ocean carried him away
Saving India's Mighty Tuskers
A measure of the conservation and welfare efforts underway to save this endangered animal
IT'S A WIN-WIN
Celebrating the personal victories of other people can bring on more of our own
BAKING IN A WAR ZONE
GOOD NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
WHAT'S THE POINT OF NEW CLOTHES?
Sartorially Speaking, my philosophy is the opposite of fast fashion. I’m an adherent of wear-it-until-it-falls-offyour-body. Sometimes this brings marital discord. “You are not going out in that,” says my wife, Jocasta, as she inserts a wriggling finger into various holes in my t-shirt.
A Helping Hand
By writing exams for persons with disabilities, one woman hopes to help them realize their dreams
Cold-Water Cure
A chilly practice has some promising health benefits
Are We Looking At Addiction All Wrong?
We ask author and psychiatrist Dr Anirudh Kala
Books
Shadows At Noon by Joya Chatterji, Vintage
Finding Freedom
This detective story, set in pre-Independence India, combines a fastpaced plot with reflections on what freedom means for individuals
WAKE UP WITHOUT COFFEE?
Do you blame your coffee habit on a biological incompatibility with mornings? It turns out that being an early riser isn’t genetic, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications
The Dog-Park Trading Post
DOWN AT MY local dog park, the scene is one of constant frivolity
Pass It On
In the best mentoring relationships, everybody learns
THE BLIND WOMEN DETECTING CANCER
HEALTHCARE According to a 2019–2021 National Family Health Survey report, less than one per cent of Indian women have ever undergone breast-cancer screening
Rachel's Winning Ticket
She won the lottery and used her good fortune to help those in need
E-Waste to Eco-Art
Ever wondered where your defunct headphones go after you throw them away? Parts of at least some of them could end up in one Bengaluru artist’s creations
Swiss Miss Marple
A husband with a whip in his car. A con man eyeing an elderly woman's wealth. It's all in a day's work for Louisa Erismann, private detective
MY LUCKY BAMBOO
If the plant could thrive, maybe I could too, even with cancer
Talking to Siri
How my son found his soulmate
A Dream of HEALTH for All
Innovative civil society initiatives that have enabled health care to reach the last mile
Local Colour
Be it plains, mountains, rivers or sky, our little planet never ceases to amaze