The Methi in the Lunchbox
A child opened his lunchbox at school in Bhayandar. Inside was methi, cooked at home. By the end of lunch, the food had been replaced...
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22 Years of Ayurvedism: Thank You for Trusting Us
A young woman placed her little daughter in the chair opposite me and said, “Doctor, you treated me when I was her age.” For a...
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...
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...