Articles

For people like us who have been attached to our land where we come from for thousands of years, food is more than just a sum total of calories and nutrients. Our traditional meals define our identity and represent our relationship with the earth, wind and the sky. This point, so often lost in an...Read More

Baani Kaur was this typical architect girl with erratic work nature that made her shuttle between Guwahati-Delhi-Ludhiana and an even more erratic sleeping pattern. My meeting with her at one of my seminars is what she describes as ‘life changing’. It’s one thing to lose 6 kgs in a span of just 2 months and...Read More

The Ganpati festival has begun and as we prepare to welcome home the God of good luck, the WhatsApp and Facebook timelines of all Mumbaikars get filled with adverts of ‘sugar free’, ‘low fat’, and ‘zero cholesterol’ modaks. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MODAK The first reference to this traditional sweet made of rice dumplings...Read More

The ‘Purananuru’ is an ancient Tamil text written in the sixth century AD that talks about Neera long before the West started talking about handcrafted beverages. Along with the kings and their greatness, generosity, ethics and philosophy, the poems in this ancient text describes Neera as a royal drink. Sadly, it is now looked down...Read More

Glued to my laptop, I, like millions of Indians, felt proud watching Saina Nehwal play the World Championship finals and while I watched in awe how agile and nimble footed she is, my thought went out for the million, if not more, women across the globe who feel inadequate about themselves, their size and most...Read More

The story in pics, a story that each of us needs to hear, that we are just a step away from our fitter selves. A story that teaches us to celebrate the fat loss process, the journey and not the “arrival” and that tells us that as we move down sizes, we should jump in...Read More