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10 Amazingly Simple Tips To Become A Corporate Yogi

I started my journey into teaching yoga walking into a Federal office building here near to my neighborhood. It was my first-ever class, apart from the studio where I taught free classes. There I was, a million sequences in my mind, awesome music to coordinate the poses, all ready to wow. I couldn’t wait to exhibit my talent as a yoga teacher. Guess what … reality struck me as I […]

What is Kundalini Yoga?

We, as human beings, as versions of the Universe experiencing itself, are always dwelling between our hearts and our minds; our divine and our human side, our body and our soul. The understanding of the fact that the divine rests within ourselves is crucial to our own happiness. In order to excel and to evolve beyond our primal needs, we need to search for solutions to remove this imbalance between […]

Now, A Medical Centre for Internet Addiction

The amount of time that people today spend online, on social networks or on their phones is increasingly interfering with real life – or at least what most people consider real life. Recognising this, the Bangalore’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, NIMHANS, has set up a tech de-addiction centre, to help those who need it. We are sometimes so absorbed in a virtual world, that we do not […]

'We must convert our image from 'scam India' to 'skill India!': PM Modi vows to take the whole nation forward in his first address to Parliament

It wasn’t the Modi of the Lok Sabha campaign beamed across televisions nationwide on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened his arms with the grace of a victor as he reached out to the Opposition in his reply to President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to the joint session of parliament on Monday. “After the elections, we all are the custodian of the hopes and aspirations of the people,” Modi said in […]

Indian media: Dam disaster kills students in Himalayas

Media in India say that more than 20 students are feared dead in Himachal Pradesh state due to the “appalling negligence” of authorities at a hydropower dam. A group of 24 students was on a holiday in the Himalayan state when they were swept away by a sudden surge of water released from the upstream dam. The students, who were on a college trip, had reportedly left a bus to […]

‘I never thought I’d be that old’: World’s oldest man dies at 111, credits longevity to no children

Alexander Imich, a Polish-born psychic researcher who was certified the oldest man on earth, has at a senior residence in Manhattan. He had turned 111 on Feb. 4. His death was reported by a grandniece, Karen Bogen, in Rhode Island, and a longtime friend in New York, Michael Mannion, who had visited him Saturday night at the Esplanade, the senior home at West End Avenue and 74th Street where Mr. […]

#BELIMITLESS

 A few months back, I wrote this to help motivate, inspire and remind people of our purpose. I hope these words are impactful to you as they were to me. The biggest sport. Where you get knocked down. Where you get told your not good enough. Where doubt, rejection, and fear try to take over…is called life. In this sport, you have only one option. To keep running, to keep […]

Taj Mahal: mud-pack treatment for pollution stains

India’s iconic Taj Mahal monument is to be given a mud-pack to remove yellow pollution stains, archaeologists say. The treatment is hoped to restore the natural sheen and colour of the white marble monument. It will be the fourth time the 17th century mausoleum has had the treatment. The last mud-pack was applied in 2008, but pollution levels around the monument to love remain high and officials say it needs […]

Modest Indian banker with big ambitions named World Entrepreneur of the Year

MONTE-CARLO, Monaco: The 2014 World Entrepreneur of the Year is a modest banker from India on an audacious mission: to build a people-focused financial-services giant that reaches out to the two-thirds of Indian consumers, or 800 million people, who don’t currently have a bank account. Uday Kotak, the 55-year-old founder and 50% owner of Mumbai-based Kotak Mahindra Bank, is challenging a cozy, state-dominated banking establishment that serves only the most […]