Calm, relaxed, restless, anxious, confident, unsure, envious, grateful. As my thoughts drifted, I felt all these emotions in just the past hour. And these are only the ones I noticed. Strivi... Read more

As a young boy in what was then called Calcutta, I would often accompany my mother to Victoria Memorial where, on a park bench, the senior ladies of the city’s Kutchi community would g... Read more

The Hindu pantheon contains 330 million Gods and goddesses, including Rama and Krishna who are perceived as avatars of Vishnu, one of the Triumvirate – Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva –... Read more

At the heart of the Kumbh tradition is the story from the ‘Bhagavat Purana’, of tussle between gods and asuras for the Amrit-kalash, pot of nectar, which bestows immortality on t... Read more

Life is a blessing, but it does not seem like one when we are in a tough situation, may be because of bad health, stress at work, job loss, strained relationships, or the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more

At first glance, to a stranger, the two vertical granite stones columns holding up one horizontal stone slab would look like a crude version of gateway to a Japanese Shinto shrine. While the... Read more

Consumers have the right to know – and we shouldn’t be discouraged by strategies like really small-point food labelling with no information that is of use to us.Such a change in... Read more

Speaking of best diets, we must first distinguish between the earlier food consumption habits of India and way these have changed now. We should actually celebrate how our food consumption h... Read more

Somehow, the morning has changed. Growing up in a slower India, mornings felt different. It might well be nostalgia, but they did not seem to be as full of portent, as crammed with activity,... Read more

Everyone is interested in making a new beginning. In that hope, we make new resolutions and these resolutions vary according to situations we are in. Generally speaking, there is in everyone... Read more