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...
Category : Health Tips
Fish vs Fish Oil: Which Is Better? Benefits, Omega-3, Best Indian Fish & Expert Guide
A patient walked into my clinic carrying a bottle of imported fish oil capsules that cost more than the fish sold outside my neighbourhood market....
Behavioural Science in Ayurveda!
A fifty-year-old businessman sat across from me, looking unusually pleased. “Doctor, my HbA1c has finally come down,” he announced before I had even opened his...
You Walk 10,000 Steps. Your Neighbour Walks 5,000. Why Is He Thinner?
There are sentences that instantly change the atmosphere inside a consulting room. Doctor, I found blood in my urine. Doctor, I can’t breathe properly. Those sentences make a...
The Healthiest People I Know Never Talk About Health
A question I almost never ask my patients is this. What makes you happy? Not because I don’t want to know. Because if I ask that...
The Great Indian Salt Panic
The patient unzipped her handbag with the seriousness of someone carrying gold through airport customs. Out came a Tupperware. Inside were five small packets of salt, each...
Your RO Water Is Eating Bones
Let me tell you about my aunt Indira, who spent fifteen years complaining that her knees sounded like a breakfast cereal factory. Snap, crackle, pop—every...
You Got the Job. Why Does Life Still Feel So Hard?
Last week, a young man told me he had no time to read. He said this after narrating, with impressive memory and emotional investment, a...
Your Protein Anxiety Is a Business Model. Your Dal Is Fine.
She came in with a food diary. Seventeen pages. Hand-written. Colour-coded by meal. Across the top, in red ink pressed down so hard it had...
The Tender Coconut Is Not Enough
There are two kinds of confidence in this city. One is earned slowly, corrected often, and slightly suspicious of itself. The other arrives fully formed...