How Advertising Changed Ayurveda and Your Medicine Cabinet
The only advertisement in Indian history written mainly for a tax officer is a turmeric cream jingle. Sometime in the late 1970s, the central excise...
Author : Dr. Brahmanand Nayak
Why You Crave Sweets After a Meal
Offer another chapati after a wedding lunch and a man will cover his plate as though you are trying to serve him a court summons....
Why Does Urad Dal Cause Gas and Bloating?
There should be two bills for medu vada: one payable at the counter, the other during the car ride home. The first you settle with...
How to Train Your Mind for Happiness?
Give an Indian mind ten minutes of peace, and it will wonder what it has forgotten to worry about. If your son gets a job, it...
We Turned Sleep Into Homework. Now We Are Losing Sleep Over It
The modern Indian goes to bed carrying enough equipment to establish a small diagnostic centre. There is a watch to measure sleep, a ring to...
Which Cooking Oil Is Best for Your Heart? What I Tell My Patients
“Doctor, we always use olive oil. From abroad,” says Zainab. The last two words seem to require passport verification. Anita buys cold-pressed oil. Lovely Kaur’s...
Hanuman Chalisa Benefits: What Forty Verses Can Do for a Frightened Mind
A medical report can weigh less than ten grams and still become the heaviest thing in a house. Someone studies the numbers. Someone consults Google,...
Her Mother Tried to Make Her Right-Handed. Science Tells a Different Story
The mother taught at an international school, where children learned to welcome different languages, cultures and ways of life. At home, she was trying to...
The Superfood Illusion: How Ordinary Foods Became Expensive Miracles
Superman arrived in 1938. The word superfood had already been circulating for more than twenty years. This seems unfair. Superman had to come from another planet,...
Why Do We Let Strangers Decide Our Lives?
At fifty-two, my friend wanted to outsource one sentence: “I resign.” For twenty-seven years, he had worked for the same company. The salary was generous,...