If you are working tomorrow (Maha Shivaratri) and are wondering how to celebrate the auspicious day, then here are few tips for you. You can follow most of the rituals even while you are at work. Wake up early – Probably at around 5AM or if possible at 4AM. Take bath and wear neat clothes, if not a new one. Light an oil lamp, incense stick in front of the […]
It’s no secret that working out is good for your body and mind. But finding the drive isn’t easy! And when you have errands to run and work to do, the thought of exercise seems daunting. We’ve all been there before. Need help finding workout motivation? Check out these seven clever habits: 1. Do An Activity You Love Exercise doesn’t have to be all about counting reps and miles. You […]
Yaga Venugopal Reddy is a man of few words, but his words carry a lot of weight — especially in the world of finance. Earlier this week, the soft-spoken former governor of Reserve Bank of India chose strong words to describe the state of play at the central bank. The “institutional identity of the RBI has been damaged” and it is facing “reputational risk”, Reddy told a television news channel, […]
Even people like Tony Robbins, Oprah, and Nelson Mandela have had to face humungous negative challenges in their life. No one is immune to them. Whether these negative situations infect you or not comes down to your toolkit of self-development weapons. The last two weeks has given me two unexpected situations to deal with. Situation One: I decided to sell a car recently and received a call from a man […]
As commercialised as it may be, Valentine’s Day is nevertheless celebrated as a day of expressing those unadulterated emotions of love to your beloved. And if you thought the week-long-prequel to V-Day was dramatic enough in itself, let us remind you that people around the world consider it to be a much greater affair than you could perhaps fathom. We bring you six unique ways in which Valentine’s Day is […]
A survey report made public ahead of Valentine’s Day on Monday clearly shows even in ‘matters of the heart’ Indian women have no rights. The report, prepared by the University of Maryland and the National Council of Applied Economic Research, states that only 4.99% of women in India had sole control over choosing their husbands. Overall, 73% of the women surveyed reported their parents or relatives alone chose their husbands. […]
“Several years ago, I had held a medical camp in the slum school in Bahadurgarh, Haryana. I was aghast to find that every single child there was malnourished,” says Kanika Ahuja. “My friend, who was a doctor treating children at the camp, said that at least 80% of the cases were just of extreme malnutrition. This was a turning point in my life when I realized that I’ll have to […]
Akhilesh Raghuvanshi, 13, suffers extreme exhaustion and crippling migraines Docs are baffled as to why Akhilesh, from India, bleeds His dad has now appealed for medics worldwide to help treat him An Indian teenager who has been crying blood since he was just 10-years-old has been nicknamed the ‘stigmata boy’. A mysterious medical condition means that Akhilesh Raghuvanshi, now 13, bleeds from his ears, eyes, mouth, legs and his hairline […]
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev explains shades of secularism and the strong spirit of enquiry in India “Secular means, in my opinion, that you are not screwed up in your head,” Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said at The Huddle here on Friday. In a session titled “The sacred and the secular: Are the two irreconcilable”, Vasudev held forth about the actual meaning of what’s sacred and what’s secular. “When you interpret it in […]
Hillary Clinton trolled US president Donald Trump after a federal appeals court rejected his bid to reinstate a temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, the media reported. Her tweet simply read, “3-0”, a reference to the unanimous decision by the three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, the USA Today reported. Clinton was not the only critic celebrating the decision, politicians, […]
