Women who carry mountains
Sukriti Taneja Pilgrimages are often described as journeys of faith. But the older I get, the more I wonder if faith is something else entirely… I found myself questioning this somewhere en route back from Katra, a small town tucked into the folds of the Trikuta mountains, where every street seems to be moving in […]
Three golden rules to mindful self-care
By Gunjan Pant Pande “Sometimes I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing,” the ox admitted quietly. The boy nodded. “So do I. Maybe that’s just a sign that we’re alive.” Lines from one of my all-time favourite books The OxHerd Boy. A simple dialogue between the ox and the boy. To me though, […]
The invisible wound
by Neha Duseja Did anyone notice the bruise on my face? No, right? Because there wasn’t any. And that’s the thing about some wounds – they don’t show up on the skin, they sit inside you, quietly, and rot everything you once loved. I was 22 when I first heard the term panic disorder. I […]
When the wild speaks
This year’s monsoon brought devastation to Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, with cloudbursts, landslides, and floods leaving no doubt that climate change is intensifying. It is making life dangerous for mountain communities and risky for tourists, while turning weather patterns increasingly unpredictable. We may soon need to redraw our weather charts and learn entirely new ways […]
The places we never go
by Sukriti Taneja There’s a folder on my laptop called ‘Someday’. Inside it, you’ll find half-baked itineraries to faraway cities, screenshots of Airbnb’s I’ll probably never book, bookmarked travel blogs, and a map dotted with pins that feel more like diary entries than destinations. It’s a strange kind of travel, this wishful wandering. You […]
The metamorphosis
Sucheta Das Mohapatra The quality of Neelanjana’s (name changed) work kept deteriorating. She wasn’t performing as per her manager’s expectation. The Human Resource (HR) Department of the company she served placed her in three Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) in six months. There was no change. No one could make out what was happening. She was […]
The Loneliness paradox
Prachi Raturi Would I be ok with my 16-year-old smoking 15 cigarettes a day? NO! Not one! And yet when this young lady, who like many children her age, became somewhat socially withdrawn, post Covid, and complained of being lonely, I didn’t realise it was a ‘health risk’ comparable to smoking more than 15 cigarettes […]
360° PARENTING – HEALTH & WELLNESS
C S Ojha A recent news story from Mumbai drew attention to an unsettling reality – children from private schools, despite access to better resources, were found to be in poorer health than those from government schools. On nearly every parameter – obesity, eyesight, strength, and overall fitness – private school students lagged behind. This […]
Bite by bite
Sukriti Taneja Have you ever found yourself in a picture-perfect place, only to realise your mood has completely soured, unprovoked, irrationally grumpy, a bit like a toddler in a tantrum? You try to push through, enjoy the sights, soak in the experience … until it hits you. You’re not sad. You’re just hungry. Or […]
Uplifting the mood sweetly
Sucheta Das Mohapatra A fortnight back as my full-body health check-up report landed on my WhatsApp, the AI assistant offered help to summarise the PDF? I thought, why not? The summary was scary! But I had no time and was in no mood to panic. I was in the office and in the midst of […]