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Do you suffer from obsessive health consciousness?
By Dr. G Prakash
To protect themselves from serious health issues, people are forming new habits or adopting healthier lifestyle choices such as going vegan, cutting sugar, or eating organic. This has received a lot more attention since…
HarperCollins to publish The Magicians of Mazda
Notching up a major success, HarperCollins on Thursday announced the acquisition of The Magicians of Mazda, the keenly anticipated new book by bestselling author, Ashwin Sanghi - India's master storyteller with more than a million copies of…
The History of Easter
Easter commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, although the word ‘Easter’ actually has nothing to do with Christianity. Jesus had been crucified on a Friday and rose from the dead on the…
Oh my hurting knee!
By Dr Biren Nadkarni
My knees have been hurting a lot over the last two months. They can be agonising at times. Is this a normal part of the ageing process? Reduced mobility, different job habits, and altered lifestyles all had a negative…
The Himalayan Dash: 9 days through Sikkim
The Himalayan Dash 2022 set to be held from May 6 to May 14, will allow its participants a rare opportunity to drive across all four districts of Sikkim over a period of nine days.
The route for the Dash Sikkim will cover Pelling, Lachen,…
Of Parallel Universes and Other Earths
In fiction and in films such as Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, parallel universes – also called the multiverse – exist alongside our own, with anything from small differences in events to entirely different rules of physics.
This is…
Five ways Gen Z is changing the listening habits in India’s music
The Indian music industry is undergoing a revolution, and Gen Z is driving the change. Gone are the days when people had to listen to a record, turn on the radio, or rely entirely on MTV to hear their favourite songs. Today, a slew of…
Nothing verse than war
By Ratan Bhattacharjee
Ratan Bhattacharjee on Ukrainian poets who have risen against the Russian invasion.
“My subject is war and the pity of war and the poetry is in the pity,” wrote Wilfred Owen nearly a hundred years ago. Today, the…
Bridgerton: the real 18th-century writers who used pseudonyms to stoke controversy
In the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, London society is set alight thanks to a newsletter penned by an anonymous writer whose sharp pen captures all the pomp, circumstance and gossip of the season. Fans of Bridgerton will recognise this…
How shops use psychology to influence your buying decisions
You might think that you only buy what you need, when you need it. But whether you are shopping for food, clothes or gadgets, the retailers are using the power of psychological persuasion to influence your decisions – and help you part with…