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...
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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...
Half Tablet, Full Fever: When Patients Turn Medicine Into Mathematics
“Doctor, fever since half a day… so I gave half a tablet.” She said it with quiet confidence, as if she had applied a perfectly...
Why People Eat Pani Puri Without Fear but Ask If Amla Juice Is Safe: Ayurvedic Doctor Explains Our Strangest Health Habit
A man in his thirties sat in my clinic chair, cracking his knuckles one by one like a musician testing his instrument. Pop. Pop. Pop....
Fasting Health Benefits: What Really Happens When You Skip a Meal
Fasting has many flavours in India. There is a water fast. The fruit fast. The sabudana fast contains more calories than a wedding buffet. The...
Why a Walk After Meals May Be the Most Underrated Health Habit?
A meal ends. The plate is rinsed. The chair moves back. And in that small domestic sound lies a metabolic decision most people do not...
What Sixty Years of Yoga Did to One Man’s Genes
He did not come announcing discipline. He came announcing his age. Seventy-six, retired schoolteacher, slim without looking fragile, upright without stiffness. He sat down the...
A Doctor’s Guide to Bangalore’s Toughest Winter in Years
This winter in Bangalore has arrived unannounced. It did not come gently. It did not come politely. It came with a shiver that reaches the...
Why We Forgot How to Rest?
Once, work came with rest built into it, no permission required. The body stopped, society allowed it, and nothing collapsed. Today, stopping feels risky. We...
Winter Wellness: An Ayurvedic Survival Story
Winter in India never walks in politely. It barges in like an auto driver who decides at the last second to take a left without...