Not Every Feeling Requires Treatment
Some days, I feel we are living in a world where every passing emotion wants a prescription, and every ordinary worry wants a clinical label....
Author : Dr. Brahmanand Nayak
Why Chyawanprash in Winter?
Bengaluru winters never storm like Delhi’s. It creeps in like a shy intern: polite, underconfident, but somehow managing to disrupt the whole office. One morning,...
The Colostrum Craze: Liquid Gold or Just Golden Hype?
When I was nine, my grandmother made something called ginna from the thick yellow milk a neighbour’s cow produced after calving. It looked strange—custard with...
Is Bread Omelette Healthy Every Day?
Some foods arrive with fanfare. Others just show up, do their job, and quietly take over the morning. Bread-omelette belongs to the second category. It...
Curd Before Exams: Superstition, Science, or Gut Intelligence?
Long before science wrote theories, culture built habits, and behaviour became data, a simple spoon of curd and sugar carried its own quiet logic—offered without...
Is 30 Too Late to Marry? What Biology and Ayurveda Say
Some clinic days begin like a soft drizzle, and then one story turns the whole sky into theatre. Yesterday, an engineer who has been my...
Does Reading Prevent Dementia?
The strangest proof that reading might save a brain arrived in my clinic wearing a faded lungi and an attitude that refused to age. An...
One Map. One Nation. Too Much Sugar.
A man barged into my clinic waving a map of India, and in that instant, I knew the country had finally found something sweeter than...
FOFO: Why Fear of Finding Out Is India’s New Anxiety
Some days, Bangalore doesn’t wake up — it jolts. Autos growl like irritated uncles, WhatsApp groups beep like anxious sparrows, and fear drifts through the...
How to Plan Your Second Innings After 50?
Last Tuesday, over a simple North Indian lunch that tasted more of memory than masala, a friend of mine—techie, 50, California resident, ex-Amazon, start-up survivor,...