How Did Datura, a Sacred Poison, Enter a Bengaluru Grocery Cart?
A Bengaluru woman ordered a cake and two energy drinks online. The delivery arrived with a complimentary fruit priced at ₹0, the sort of small...
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Is Your Smartwatch Controlling Your Health?
The young man sitting across from me looked well-rested and deeply alarmed. He was twenty-four, worked for a Bengaluru technology company and carried three months...
Fake Paneer: What Is Analogue Paneer?
Paneer once had a respectable biography. It began as milk, suffered an acidic crisis, separated from its whey, spent half an hour beneath a heavy...
How Losing One Hour of Sleep a Night Can Make You Gain Weight
For three months, a patient of mine searched his kitchen for the four kilograms he had gained. He interrogated rice, dismissed sugar and arrested the...
Why Oiling Your Hair Can Sometimes Worsen Dandruff?
A young man once entered my clinic wearing enough coconut oil on his head to solve a minor fuel crisis. “Doctor, dandruff is not going,”...
How Smoking Damages Male Fertility
There are only two kinds of smokers in India. The first says, “Yes, Doctor, I smoke.” I have met exactly three of them in thirty...
You Got the Job. Why Does Life Still Feel So Hard?
You Got the Job. Why Does Life Still Feel So Hard? Last week, a young man told me he had no time to read. He...
The Day Yoga Left Home
How the Mysuru school of yoga conquered Hollywood and reshaped the modern wellness industry. The global yoga industry, worth billions of dollars and stretching from...
India’s Fertility Crisis Isn’t About Children. It’s About Everything Else.
They sat across my desk the way many young couples in Bengaluru sit these days, slightly apart, slightly distracted, her laptop bag still on her...
I Slept Eight Hours. My Watch Says Sorry
At 3:12 in the morning, a man opened one eye, lifted his wrist to his face, and checked whether he was sleeping properly. Then he...