A fresh start for Capricorn, positive changes for Cancer: your 2024 tarot horoscope
What do the cards foretell for 2024? Here’s your tarot guide for the year ahead by Karishma Makhija.
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Actor-playwright Catherine Ann Jones on India’s stark realities and eternal beauty
A new book by former actor-playwright Catherine Ann Jones takes you deep into the heart of India, highlighting not only India’s wealth of spiritual knowledge, but also its intrinsic discrimination and superstition.
Offbeat Arunachal Pradesh: trysts with tribal powerwomen and a Singpho dance festival
Aekta Kapoor tours a lesser explored region of Arunachal Pradesh along with her best friend, and is delighted by the beauty of this northeast Indian state, its pristine ecology, and the empowerment of its tribal women.
Towering ambition, veiled longing: Feminine power in the Mughal empire
To what extent did empresses and noblewomen influence the political, social and aesthetic landscapes of the Mughal empire? Quite a bit, it turns out.
Why you’re a perfectionist, and how to turn it into your strength, not weakness
At best, perfectionism pushes you to work hard and achieve more. At worst, it leads to mental illness that can be crippling in the long run. Here’s how to be vigilant.
How a pottery workshop with my children taught us profound lessons for life
A pottery workshop helped Rajasthan-based mom Priyamvada Singh and her little sons bring home a sack full of wisdom and a bag full of smiles.
Losing and finding connection on the trail of leopards in Maharashtra
Richa Tilokani goes on a night safari with her family at the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. What will they discover in the dark?
10 alternative therapies and modalities to help you heal, energise and grow
Energy healing modalities, or complementary therapies, go to the root of emotional patterns, subconscious beliefs and spiritual dilemmas to help you heal blocks and live life to your fullest.
17 best children’s books for a magical summer 2023
What better way for kids to spend the holidays than with a stash of some amazing new books? We’ve got you covered with this all-new summer reading list for children of all ages.
I was afraid of going to the Aurat March. This year, my teen daughters went with me
Lahore teacher Sara Arshad had never attended the Aurat March, fearing the intense backlash that the feminist protest receives every year. But this Women’s Day, she participated with her teens in tow.
A good year for Aries to adopt a pet, a time of brilliant success for Cancer – Tarot predictions for 2023
What do the cards foretell for you in 2023? Mumbai-based tarot card reader Karishma Makhija has a look.
“It is high time we dissolve the myth that poetry is elitist” – UK teen poetry sensation Iona Mandal
At 16, UK-based multilingual poet Iona Mandal has already won several prestigious literary awards, and is a member of Mensa High IQ society. What are a genius’s influences and inspirations? We find out.
She set out to make Bharatnatyam inclusive; then a 58-year-old with Parkinson’s signed up
Bharatnatyam teacher Shiphony Pavithran was approached by a 58-year-old former schoolteacher with Parkinson’s disease to learn dance. Both ended up learning a lot more in the process.
How two Bengaluru athletes created a sisterhood in sport reaching over 3,000 women
Founded by elite fitness coach Swetha Subbiah and ace footballer Tanvie Hans, Sisters in Sweat has made sport accessible and fun for thousands of women in India
Babasaheb and Savita Ambedkar: A portrait of an uncommon marriage
Dr Savita Ambedkar’s autobiography ‘Babasaheb’ is written as an ode to the Father of the Indian Constitution. But his wife the writer manages to hold her own space – in their marriage, their public life, and in the intimate events that dot this book.
Hockey, friendship and the cost of Partition: Bani Singh’s award-winning documentary ‘Taangh’
Bani Singh’s award-winning debut film ‘Taangh’ about her father, a champion hockey player, is as much a chronicle of Partition in 1947 as India winning the Olympics gold in 1948
One-Eyed Mama undergoes eye surgery and realises she has a ‘vision’ problem
One-Eyed Mama aka Aekta Kapoor heads to London for a high-risk eye surgery, and learns to process a question that had bothered her for a long time.
A sleep whisperer shares 4 Vedic habits that will help you sleep deep and long
Sleep whisperer, perfumer and wellbeing consultant Nuthan Manohar describes four techniques that helped her sleep better for longer
From shame to digital snooping, this new book explores the experience of menstruation in South Asia
Edited by human-rights lawyer Farah Ahamed, the new anthology ‘Period Matters’ is an in-depth look at how menstruation is perceived and experienced in South Asia.
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