The uninitiated could be forgiven for thinking the Australian Sports Party is the kind of party that you go to on a Saturday night. But if you have the two minutes you need to look them up, they’re a political party who, from their website’s ‘About Us’ page, is ‘focused on helping Australians live a...Read More
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a slowly replicating retrovirus that causes AIDS, a condition that causes progressive failure of the immune system and makes the body prone to infections and cancers. One of the properties of this virus is that it burrows deep into the DNA of immune cells and ‘goes to sleep’ there,...Read More
A 3-year-old girl hailing from Arizona has become the newest and probably one of the youngest members of the prestigious club Mensa after she scored 160 in an IQ test. This makes her IQ score equivalent to that of Albert Einstein himself. Although Einstein never took an IQ test but it was known he took...Read More
Legend has it that when Prahlad, the pious son of demon king Hiranyakashipu, was made to sit on a pyre by his aunt, Holika, the cloak that the demoness wore to protect herself flew to encase the person of Prahlad, protecting him and burning her alive. Thus was born the tradition by which the festival...Read More
Earlier this Saturday, reports spread across all newspapers over the Category-4 cyclone that slammed the island of Tonga. Winds slammed the island with an estimated speed of about 200 kilometres per hour creating havoc across the nation. As of now, no major injuries have been reported and the casualties are quite low. Power was restored...Read More
One of the first lessons we learn in our lives is that of Karma. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. As you sow, so shall you reap. Two wrongs don’t make a right. The universe is so designed, they tell us, that good things happen to good people and bad...Read More
Do people exercise for good health or for good looks? I don’t know about you, but when I started going to the gym regularly in my late teens, warding off the risk of heart disease was the last thing on my mind. I wanted to look like Brad Pitt in Troy. I wanted a six-pack,...Read More
While present day understanding of Yoga is limited to seeing it only as a mode of physical exercise, the word ‘yoga’ actually implies ‘union.’ It is meant to be a true union of mind, body and spirit, thereby taking one to the heights of spiritual advancement, perfect physical health and unparalleled equanimity of mind. While...Read More
In the first ten seconds after meeting a lady for the first time, the average man will spend more than half his time staring at her – ? If you said ‘breasts’ to that you’re just like me, but just like me you would also be wrong. Because the right answer, apparently, is ‘mouth’. Yes,...Read More
Last year, my maternal grandfather died at the age of ninety-one. He saw Gandhi in the flesh when he was a teenager. He lived through the times of ‘Inquilaab’ and ‘Hey Ram’. He followed the Dandi march live on radio. He heard – actually heard – Nehru say: “At the stroke of the midnight hour,...Read More