In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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One of the most important and life-altering decisions, apart from the regular ones (about career, relationships and a home) concerns itself with the kind of oil you choose for cooking. Oil is an important ingredient in almost all items cooked in our country, with sources and amounts varying depending on the location. Oils belong to […]
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” said Lao Tzu. So are you beginning a workout routine for the first time or after a long gap? Read on… Warm Up: The warm up is an important component of such a beginning since the muscles in the body need to be conditioned […]
A marathon always attracts all sorts of people. Local enthusiasts, the foreigners, the professionals, the amateurs alike! Marathon training has been gaining popularity over the last few years as an attractive option not only to athletes but also to non-athletes who choose it for the challenge and excitement among other reasons. Running a marathon, needless to […]
Continued… Peter Senge said that “Small changes can produce big results but the areas of highest leverage are the least obvious.” That is another reason why it makes eminent sense to learn to slow down. When you are engaged with higher leverage work, you need to work less frenetically. Life is more spacious. And fulfilling. […]
Are you someone who can’t seem to find anytime for exercise no matter how hard you try? Or just the thought of a gym makes you want to bury your head in the sand? Well, there is something for you too! And it is called NEAT: Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. May sound complicated, but could possibly […]
Have you realized the importance of getting sufficient amount of sleep? Late night partying, watching movies, studying or working till late night and then getting up early the next day, over a period of time, all cause a long list of problems. It is only when you sleep, that the growth hormones are secreted by the master glands in the […]
How many days pass without anyone of us complaining about lower back pain or pain in the upper back-neck-shoulder region? Considering our increasingly sedentary lifestyles – especially at and to-and-fro from work, it does not take a rocket scientist to predict the range of health problems that can arise. The problems arise since the discs […]
Do you sleep, dream, eat, drink, walk, talk exercise? Do your discussions start and end with how much and what exercise you did today, yesterday, the day before, the day before that, and so on? Are you obsessed with a certain type of body, which may or may not seem attainable? Then you may belong […]
Are you too old to exercise? The old adage, ‘It is never too late to start,’ was probably written, to answer this very question. We are forever in the quest to improve/maintain good health since it is fundamental to everything else in life. So, why should it be an exception in the later years of life, where infact […]
My eight-year-old Labrador is a victim of in-breeding in India. He was born with genetic hip-dysplasia and by the age of three, his affected leg had to be amputated. If only he did not have hip-dysplasia, then doing the normal things a pup does would not have caused him to loose his leg. I share […]
I first did yoga when I was in the eighth or ninth standard. I remember waking up early in the morning and going to a dark, dingy building with my mom. I felt so bored by the slow motions of yoga asanas coupled with my sleepiness, that I lasted just two days. As I grew […]
The happiest fallacy is that life is forever. Many of us have seen from painfully close quarters that it isn’t and that one afternoon when you are just watching it go by, it will stop. Just like that. As the years rush by, the idea of mortality, especially your own, fades away as other things take over. The everyday bustle of […]