We spend 90% of our time indoors, be it a home, workplace, education centres, places of worship or gyms. Indoor air quality is a global issue, both short- and long-term exposure to indoor air pollution can cause a range of health issues, including respiratory diseases, heart disease, cognitive deficits, and cancer. According to the WHO [...] Continue Reading

SLEEP APNEA If you are a loud snorer, if you have disturbed sleep, if you wake up feeling very tired despite a full night’s sleep then you could very well be one of the millions who suffers from Sleep Apnea (SA), but don’t know it! This is said to be a serious  sleep disorder in […]

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This question has again and again played on the questioning mind. Are we destined to take each and every step that we do take in this journey of life? Is it all preconceived by the Universal Player, and are we just pawns on the chessboard of life? The Pawns have a role to play, just […]

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Several years ago, when I first started trying to understand Vedanta, my teacher Pravrajika Vivekaprana, explained some ‘laws’. Among them were the four pillars of Hinduism: Reincarnation (punar janma); Evolution; Karma (cause and effect); and Maya. How lucidly one understood or understands even now is debatable, but for a lay mind, some things were clear […]

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Over the years, whenever I saw the image of Mother Kali, I was always overwhelmed and even perplexed by the apparent contradictions in her appearance. A black figure, with a red tongue protruding from a fearsome face with eyes ablaze. With one hand she gives benedictions and blessings and but in the other hands she […]

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