How did Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput die? We all know he committed suicide. He took his own life. He took the extreme step. He made a choice―the ultimate choice, to give up everything; his stardom, his fame, the money...
Endearingly named the ‘Mother of Orphans’ for parenting more than 1,400 children, 71-year-old Sindhutai Sapkal now has a grand extended family of 207 sons-in-law, 36 daughters-in-law, and thousands of grandchildren. Sindhutai is Mai (mother in Marathi) to the whole world,...
When I was a child barely three years old, before I even knew who or what God is, my mother told me God is everywhere. She didn’t even tell me God exists in heaven, because that would mean explaining the...
Can there be close bonding, without any physical attraction between a man and a woman? “I have a close friend of the opposite sex—someone I have known for ten years, since I was sixteen years old. We have a very...
Sneha Sharma discovered that car racing was her first love when she was 16 years old. But it then seemed so unreal and dream-like. Her parents, too, opposed her from taking up car racing, pleading that it was a dangerous...
Payal Jangid, a teenager from a village, Hinsla, in Rajasthan has made curbing of child marriages and abolition of child labour her twin missions in life. “Many resign themselves, to the way things are, far too easily. Everyone must challenge...
Sitting on the steps on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh some summers ago gave me a feeling of peace and unity with the universe, more than I ever experienced in a church, temple, gurdwara or other places of...
Dr Aiswarya Rao, now 47, was struck with polio when she was three, causing weakening of her muscles and locomotive disability. She has been moving around in crutches since then. But this has neither been an impediment for Dr Rao...
We can achieve much in our life, if we learn to keep an upright spine, in all our waking hours, while sitting, standing or walking. With an upright spine, energy flows upwards from the base or root (muladhara) chakra towards...
