You’re about to get your picture taken for a High School Graduation event, but you’re mortified, and try to hide yourself or your face despite the fact that this is the last picture you’d have of your friends from school. Why? Because of those dang pimples! Has...
2016 has been an eventful and… strange… year, to say the least. With a US Presidential Race that more and more seems to resemble a TV Reality Show, the increasing strain of Right-Wing Xenophobia, and Beyonce’s “Lemonade”, 2016 already seems to be one of the most...
Sankalpa is a yogic practice which can actually be used by anyone to brighten up their lives and bring them peace and tranquility. It comes form the sanskrit words san and kalpa, the former being a call or commitment to a higher power or higher truth, and the latter...
Shamsher Bahadur was borne of a rather controversial coupling of Peshwa Bajirao I and his second wife Mastani, who happened to be a muslim woman. Of course, the origins of Mastani have been obscured by history, with various contrary points of view in place — some say...
Have you ever felt weightless or seen a bright light at the end of a warm tunnel? Have you ever had an eerie feeling of being surrounded by your loved ones who passed away years ago? If yes, then you seem to have experienced a near-death experience, my friend. And, I...
Ever get an extremely sharp burning sensation in your Ureter tract? A pain in your lower back that extends all the way down to your groins? An inability to sit or lie down comfortably, and the desire to pass urine but the inability to do so, even as you spend hours...
Ever experienced that burning sensation in the pit of your stomach? Or how about your heart, has it ever burnt so hot you thought you might be in the grips of a heart attack? If the answer to either of these is ‘yes’ then that is likely indicative of the fact that you...
Sharad Navratri or the Durga Puja is a joyous festival celebrated in almost all parts of India in different styles. But the main basic aim of this 9 days of Navratri celebration is to pacify Goddess Shakti in her various forms. This is to bestow Power, wealth,...
All of us would have played the game – Chinese whispers where a word or message is secretly whispered from one-person to another. It’s often funny to know how the word or message has transformed by the end. Same is true in the case of old age rituals or traditions....
Onam is known as the Harvest festival of Kerala, the last state on India’s southwestern belt. It takes place in the beginning of Chingam, the first month of Malayalam Calendar (Kollavarsham) with festivities running across 10 days.This year i.e Onam 2017 falls on...
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