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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