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The past two years have been a roller-coaster ride and the pandemic has taken a toll on our mental health. Many of us have been trying to commit to better our mental state, but often find ourselves faltering in that commitment. The reason is simple: we cannot condition our minds to suddenly do something we […]
Drop your travel plans to Abu Dhabi if you haven’t received booster doses because as per the new rules by the UAE government – you are not considered to be fully vaccinated in case you haven’t had booster doses. And it has banned visitors who are not fully vaccinated in the wake of rising cases […]
University of Exeter has found that one in ten people might be infectious for covid even after ten days of onset of the disease. Recently a new guideline by the Indian government has relaxed rules relating to testing after catching covid but this new study published in the international journal of infectious Diseases has found […]
Virat Kohli took to social media to announce his decision to step down as Indian men’s Test captain today evening. The announcement comes just within 24 hours of India Virat has led Indian in whites in 68 matches of which India won 40, lost 17 and drawn 11. “It has been seven years of hard […]
A Finnish startup claims that it is making a vegan protein 10 times more climate-friendly than most plant-based proteins and 100 times more climate-friendly than meat. What if we could grow nutritious food, literally out of thin air? Solar Foods, a Finnish government-backed food-tech start-up, says it has developed a process to do exactly that. […]
The name ‘Vladimir Nabokov’ evokes all kinds of associations in the minds of people, some not favourable too. However, what most people miss out is that he was one of the greatest stylists of the English language in the twentieth century. In 1988, I had entered BA, I was barely seventeen and I issued Nabokov’s […]
Is there something for parents to worry about if their child is fascinated by superhero films and play? Aruna Raghuram It’s no surprise that the latest Spider-man movie, Spider-man: No Way Home, made a killing at the box office despite the raging pandemic. Superhero movies are extremely popular with both children and adults. Many children […]
She’s a spoiled little rich girl. Just walked out on her wedding, and turned up at the apartment of an old school friend still wearing her exquisite ivory dress. Her friend’s friends convince her that she has to grow up and get real, so in a moment of liberation she triumphantly cuts up the credit […]
Former cricketers and media persons have reacted after Virat Kohli and his teammates were seen commenting into the stump microphone over an overturned lbw decision. Former England captain Michael Vaughan has said that the International Cricket Council (ICC) needs to step in and suspend Indian captain, Virat Kohli, after a controversial ending to Day 3 […]
Covid-19 has stepped its foot in the India Open currently underway in New Delhi and as many as seven Indian players who tested positive had to withdraw from the tournament. The players include World No.1 Kidambi Srikanth and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Ashwini Ponnappa. The players along with their double partners have been withdrawn […]
From the time the pandemic began, scientists and researchers across the globe have been trying to find antibodies that can provide immunity against Corona virus. A recent study by Imperial College London has inferred that high levels of T-cells from common cold coronaviruses can guard against COVID-19. Immunity against COVID-19 is a complex subject and […]
Covid rise is taking on an aggressive route. Thursday saw 4,213 new cases reported in Gujarat alone. And while vaccines remain the answer, many argue the efficacy of vaccines in dealing with newer variants. Meanwhile, masking up seems to be the only way out. However, experts opine that cloth masks are not a judicious choice. […]
On a cold winter night, a body was taken to a burial ground in an auto rickshaw in Ahmedabad. At the day end, the person takes the last ride of his life. This circle of life is captured by Vibes of India lensman Hanif Sindhi.
Two weeks ago, I had spoken about novels where characters grow through the different experiences that they accumulate in their lives. As ‘novels of growth’ or a bildungsroman, I had specifically spoken about two novels, which I have loved in my life, George Eliot’s Middlemarch and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a […]
Imagine going to a restaurant with your sixteen-month-old. How do you think your meal would pan out? Perhaps you would take out a prepacked home meal from the diaper bag and proceed to painstakingly feed your distracted toddler for thirty minutes while your food gets cold. Perhaps you’d offer them your phone so that they’ll […]
On a good day for Indian tennis, Sania Mirza and the men’s doubles pair of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Rohan Bopanna emerged victorious in their respective first round matches in the ATP and WTA tournaments on Tuesday. The Adelaide event is a tune-up for the Australian Open, starting on January 17 in Melbourne. Sania and Nadiia […]
My first introduction to the poems of Agha Shahid Ali was in 1995, reading works by different Indian poets in English as I worked for my M.Phil. dissertation on the poetry of AK Ramanujan. I was immediately enamoured of him. There was no way one could not be so. In fact, I found out that […]
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which read, “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat – spare change from folks as they hurried past. A man was walking by. He took a few […]
Remember the friends you made in the early days of your career? You exchanged confidences, swapped gossip, has discussions involving this interesting new concept called “work” and at the end of the month, you went out and blew up your salaries together. Most of these friends may have been lost to time and performance appraisals, […]
Nocebo is the stark opposite of placebo. Both are Latin words, the former translates “I shall harm” and the latter meaning “I shall please.” Fitness freaks or even the ordinary folks looking at a fitter themselves, have opted for noceboes as a guide to a healthier life. A paradox, isn’t it? Let us explain. The […]
