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Signalling a revolution
Canadian scientist and entrepreneur Sachdev Sidhu is focused on bringing cutting-edge antibody engineering to his country of origin
Wellness on demand
Starting as a doctor-patient chat platform, Medibuddy has evolved to be India's largest on-demand, full-stack digital health care platform
HEARING AND VISION LOSS LINKED TO HEART DISEASE AND STROKE
A CHINESE STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL of the American Heart Association suggests that middle aged and older adults with sensory impairments, specifically hearing and vision loss, have an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and heart attacks.
PETTICOAT CANCER AND THE SARI LINK
TYING YOUR UNDERSKIRT (petticoat) tightly around the waist when wearing a sari, can lead to \"petticoat cancer\" or \"sari cancer,\" as it was previously called. Tying the underskirt too tightly can cause constant cord friction that can lead to chronic inflammation, skin ulceration and, in rare cases, skin cancer.
MUSIC MAY BOOST RECOVERY AFTER SURGERY
LISTENING TO MUSIC may help you recover faster after surgery, finds a US study presented at the American College of Surgeons' Clinical Congress. To examine the role of music in postoperative recovery, researchers analysed 35 papers.
RISKS OF UNTREATED CATARACTS
BESIDES RESTORING GOOD VISION, cataract surgeries can also reduce the risk of falls and fractures and life-threatening brain bleeds from falls in older adults. It is already known that cataract surgery can reduce the risk of hip fractures, a major cause of mortality and morbidity in older adults.
LIMITING SUGAR IN EARLY CHILDHOOD REDUCES RISK OF DIABETES, HYPERTENSION
Limiting sugar in the first 1,000 days of a baby's life, from conception through the first two years, can reduce the odds of developing type 2 diabetes and hypertension in adulthood.
Pitfalls of extreme feminism
To be honest, I got to hear of South Korea's extreme feminism movement-4B-only recently. It is a radical form of feminism, formed in the crucible of toxic patriarchy with all the attendant violence and misogyny, punishing beauty standards and yawning pay gaps, which advocates the four Bis (Bi means no, in Korean), which are biyeonae (no dating with men), bisekseu (no sex with men), bichulsan (no children with men), and bihon (no marriage with men).
Cheap and chic in India
I read management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company's State of Fashion report year after year. They get many things right, as consultancy firms are experts at reading numbers and stating the obvious. Their ground-level surveys-oh, they're another matter altogether.
Home truths
Priyanka Mattoo's memoir Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones is all about a Kashmiri's pursuit of finding home
Style with zing
The world of stylists has exploded
Swing control
How do we build wealth with low variance?
Manu has the right to flaunt her medals
INTERVIEW - JASPAL RANA, COACH
There were times I really wanted to give up
INTERVIEW - MANU BHAKER, DOUBLE OLYMPIC BRONZE-WINNING SHOOTER
Manu's script
Teen sensation to Tokyo dud to the Paris podium twice, Manu Bhaker's story is biopic fodder and an inspiration to many. And at 22, the Haryana shooter, THE WEEK's Woman of the Year for 2024, has only begun writing her story
Neighbours with benefits
The Kaladan project has been stalled for years because of the civil war, but there is now optimism that it will resume soon, as India has been able to convince the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army about its importance
Biren Singh is a dictator, has Amit Shah's support
INTERVIEW - Yumnam Joykumar Singh, former deputy CM and DGP, Manipur
Murders most foul
The Jiribam killings mark a disturbing escalation in the ethnic conflict, triggering widespread protests against both state and Central governments
ONE THOUSAND DAYS OF RESISTANCE
UNCERTAINTY LOOMS LARGE IN UKRAINE AFTER RUSSIA'S AGGRESSIVE PUSH, TRUMP'S RE-ELECTION AND EXHAUSTED SOLDIERS ON THE FRONTLINE
Press one for conferences
Today, as I pen this article, my city stands cloaked in a dense and grey shroud of smog T and unfulfilled promises. This ritual of waking up to grey winter mornings has become an unwelcome norm, with each year worse than the last. Every year, Delhiites endure the endless press conferences from the chief minister of the AAP government, yet any tangible solution to this pollution crisis remains elusive.
In gold we trust
Most Indians are chrysophilists. There was good news for them a few days ago. The object of their love, which had been getting dearer, suddenly got cheap.
Bully In White House Isn't Bad News
Most of us claim to be nice people. We work hard, we give to charity, we love our families, we don’t cheat, we pay our taxes, we are kind, we respect teachers, we don’t jump red lights, we respect other faiths, we read to children, we believe in democracy, we cheer free speech, and we hate Donald Trump. We think all nice people do all these things.
Don 2.0
Trump returns to presidency stronger than before, but just as unpredictable
Olympics, 2036: Host And Ghosts
The Indian Olympics Association (IOA) has sent the International Olympics Committee (IOC) its ‘letter of intent’ to host the Olympics in 2036—appositely enough the centenary of the very year, 1936, when Adolf Hitler hosted the Games in Berlin!
The female act
The 19th edition of the Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival was of the women and by the women
A SHOT OF ARCHER
An excerpt from the prologue of An Eye for an Eye
MASTER OF MAKE-BELIEVE
50 years. after his first book, Jeffrey*Archer refuses to put down his'felt-tip Pilot pen
Smart and sassy Passi
Pop culture works according to its own unpredictable, crazy logic. An unlikely, overnight celebrity has become the talk of India. Everyone, especially on social media, is discussing, dissing, hissing and mimicking just one person—Shalini Passi.
Energy transition and AI are reshaping shipping
PORTS AND ALLIED infrastructure development are at the heart of India's ambitions to become a maritime heavyweight.
MADE FOR EACH OTHER
Trump’s preferred transactional approach to foreign policy meshes well with Modi’s bent towards strategic autonomy