Tulsi (holy basil) has so many medicinal uses and benefits that it has been traditionally worshipped in India. Modern research has revealed that it has several medicinal benefits, apart from helping to purify the air. It has been extensively used since the ancient times as a home remedy for common ailments. Tulsi has many healing […]Read More
Amusingly, most of us want to fall in love, be loved, dream to have a life of bliss, ecstasy, flowering, innocence, celebration, humor, expansion. Yet for most these are simple empty words – unfulfilled desires mirages that are seldom reality. Our dreams of being in love, cared do visit us occasionally – and when they […]Read More
Looking good is not just a female prerogative. Men also realise the importance of appearance. Looking one’s best imparts self-confidence, very necessary in today’s competitive career world. Moreover, there are many jobs in which the appearance counts, like public and media relations, front office jobs, marketing and sales, jobs in hotels, banks, tourism, television (anchoring, […]Read More
I am not a philoshoper, not creating a system. Neither I am here to create a theory or be a theologian. Neither I am to be drowned in scriptures. My only interest is to flower – and be so. That’s ecstasy – the language of my existence. And what do I infer from the word […]Read More
Being a mother can be so demanding! You are probably left without any time to care for your appearance and grooming. I think attitudes are also partly to blame. Once married and a mother, many women are overwhelmed by looking after home and family. They tend to let themselves go and don’t give that much […]Read More
Let’s reflect on the following: Need to create a culture of asking questions- and transform students from being passive listeners to volatile innovators. Education should not encourage creating cow webs in the brain, but should evolve mechanisms of liberating it from them. Concept of control should be substituted by the concept of objectivity. Let student […]Read More
The danger of manipulation is that they work and because manipulations work, they have become a norm, practiced liberally by majority individuals, enterprise, corporate and institutions- regardless of size, industry, geography, ageing and ethnicities. That fact alone creates a systematic and ever increasing peer pressure. With perfect irony, we the manipulators have been manipulated by […]Read More
It’s simple – explains a television commercial – simply put your gold jewellery in the prepaid insured envelope and we will send you the cheque for the value of gold – in just 48 hours– with no questions asked – screams Muthoot Gold and many others – claiming to be the leaders in their said […]Read More
The skin has a tremendous capacity for self-regeneration if properly cared for and it’s never too late to start. The skin that has been properly cared for stays youthful for a longer time. It is also true that neglected skins develop symptoms of ageing prematurely. So, it is important to understand the individual needs of […]Read More
An establishment glorifies and sensitises us all to cleanness with drives, movements which many adore and adapt while others desist, fence with and have issues. Let’s examine what cleanliness — Swachh Bharat means to me: Cleanliness is next to godliness — a phrase that we have grown up with, yet all the while we keep […]Read More