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Today is ‘World Mental Health Day’ – a day that aims to educate and raise awareness of mental illness and its major effects on people’s lives worldwide. The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is psychological first aid and the support people can provide to those in distress.   Despite its name, psychological first aid covers both psychological and social support. As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), […]

A bench held that moving away from the parents’ house after coming of age or marriage was a ‘western thought alien to our culture and ethos’. A Hindu man has the right to divorce his wife if she insists that they live away from his aged parents and spend his income solely on them, a bench of the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. “It is not a common practice or […]

The mind can affect the condition of the body, just as the condition of the body can affect the mind. We deplete our vital energy when we live a fragmented life — when our body, mind and soul are not in agreement with each other. Existentially, our body belongs to nature, our soul belongs to God, and in between is our mind which goes through a long process of conditioning […]

The Telangana government on Saturday organised the traditional state festival of ‘Bathukamma’ on a grand scale at the Lal Bahadur stadium in Hyderabad. The event, attended by about ten thousand women, found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, a government release said.  The women sang and danced around the tastefully arranged flowers during the event. The release quoted Jayachandra, a representative of the Guinness Book, as saying […]

It’s likely that you may not have heard of the Indian Pangolin. It isn’t as beautiful as the tiger, nor as powerful as the rhinoceroses. And yet – it tops the list of the most illegally trafficked animals in the world. The magnitude of hunting pangolins for their scaly skins and tender meat is so intense, that it shook the governments of 182 countries to take some action towards its […]

This year has seen the publication of several books and numerous articles devoted to a prime minister previously forgotten or ignored: PV Narasimha Rao. Despite enjoying a full five-year term in office, despite overseeing a major and defining shift in economic policy, despite effecting innovations in foreign policy such as the ‘Look East’ strategy, Narasimha Rao had thus far not got his due from scholars and commentators on Indian politics. […]

The hit-man is back. In the sequel to the 2014 sleeper hit, Keanu Reeves returns as John Wick. In the trailer that was launched on Saturday at the fan-studded New York Comic Con, the assassin may look a bit older and wiser, but he’s equally lethal. And guess what, he’s back from retirement and even has a little pooch this time.   Even though the trailer doesn’t give much away […]

If you are a bengali living outside Kolkata then I am sure you will relate to this. Mahastami is that special day of the year when all of us throng to the Puja Pandal. Whether you are the devout types, the non-believers, the food lovers, the diet conscious, the ones that love to dress or the types that believe in minimal dressing, just about no bengali can stay away from […]

Mirzya” is a very simple yet extremely layered love legend. The lovers here face what lovers everywhere have faced since love was discovered in the human heart. As in “Rang De Basanti”, Mehra creates two levels of storytelling, one that is situated in the present times with the lovers going through the love tropes with a kind of gentle persuasiveness that makes destiny seem charmingly welcome, and the other love […]