The Krishna Test: Health Lessons No Blood Report Can Measure
If Lord Krishna were born in Bengaluru tonight, I suspect the first serious difficulty would not be Kamsa. It would be advice. Before Vasudeva reached...
Author : Dr. Brahmanand Nayak
Appemidi: The Mango That Became an Inheritance
Every mango is expected to ripen, soften and become sweet. Appemidi refuses. This small, intensely sour mango from Karnataka’s Western Ghats is picked while it...
Knol-Khol for Diabetes: Eat It This Way, Not That Way
A knol-khol sits in the vegetable shop looking like a cabbage that has swallowed a tennis ball. Most shoppers examine it, suspect it of having...
How Did Datura, a Sacred Poison, Enter a Bengaluru Grocery Cart?
A Bengaluru woman ordered a cake and two energy drinks online. The delivery arrived with a complimentary fruit priced at ₹0, the sort of small...
Is Your Smartwatch Controlling Your Health?
The young man sitting across from me looked well-rested and deeply alarmed. He was twenty-four, worked for a Bengaluru technology company and carried three months...
Fake Paneer: What Is Analogue Paneer?
Paneer once had a respectable biography. It began as milk, suffered an acidic crisis, separated from its whey, spent half an hour beneath a heavy...
How Losing One Hour of Sleep a Night Can Make You Gain Weight
For three months, a patient of mine searched his kitchen for the four kilograms he had gained. He interrogated rice, dismissed sugar and arrested the...
Why Do Some People Handle Stress Better Than Others?
The calmest patient I have met was waiting to learn whether he had cancer. The most agitated was waiting for somebody to move a scooter....
What Is the Ideal Age Gap Between Husband and Wife? A Young Engineer Asked Me the Wrong Question
A young software engineer from Bengaluru asked me, “Doctor, what should be the exact age gap between husband and wife?” He had entered the bride-searching...
The Oldest Prescription in the World Is a Friend
In a scrappy little park off Sanjayanagar — the kind the BBMP builds by planting a dozen saplings, one broken bench and no gate — two men...