Sacred Food in the Golden Temple: Mint on Sunday
Rolling rotis in Amritsar’s Golden Temple Shoba Narayan Amritsar: The family standing at the long, snaking line to enter Harmandir Sahib, or the Golden Temple of Amritsar, is fighting. All around are people prayerfully singing kirtans (devotional songs), but [...]
Silence and Sound Part 4
Home » Mint on Sunday » Silence and Sound Last Modified: Sat, Aug 27 2016. 11 37 PM IST Silence is an underrated tool in the arsenal of parenting When I don’t snap to judgement or bark out orders, it gives my kids the space [...]
Silence and Sound Part 3
MINT ON SUNDAY Home » Mint on Sunday » Silence and Sound Last Modified: Sat, Jul 02 2016. 11 35 PM IST My experiments with silence Keeping quiet improves sensitivity. Once you calm down your monkey mind, it is easier to pay attention Photo: Pradeep [...]
Silence and Sound Part 2
MINT ON SUNDAY Home » Mint on Sunday » Silence and Sound Last Modified: Sat, Jul 16 2016. 11 29 PM IST The problem of embracing silence in an age of noise Most of us don’t know how to experience, process, use or embrace silence—it’s [...]
Shortcuts to health and happiness
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Fri, Sep 16 2016. 11 53 AM IST The age of betterment: Short cuts to health and happiness People do many things to better themselves. They take up a sport, learn languages, do yoga, meditate and [...]
Listen to your body
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Thu, Dec 08 2016. 05 27 PM IST Listen to your body Don’t assume that the external world can cure your internal problems. Your body will give you clues about its current state and where it [...]
Work out during your commute
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Thu, Sep 22 2016. 04 40 PM IST Work out during your commute Engaging your core while in the car, bus or autorickshaw is simple. All you need to do is make sure that your back [...]
Pandiculation is no gobbledygook
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Thu, Sep 29 2016. 05 54 PM IST Pandiculation is no gobbledygook A pandiculation is a constriction of muscles followed by a stretch. Constrict, release, relax—that’s the sequence Shoba Narayan Try pandiculating to relax your body. [...]
The link between dance and memory
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Thu, Oct 06 2016. 05 43 PM IST What’s the link between Indian classical, folk dance forms and enhanced memory power? Horizontal saccades—when eyes move from side to side in rhythm with the legs—in classical dance [...]
Squat and curl
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Thu, Oct 20 2016. 05 25 PM IST Squat and curl Squat and curl during your spare time. It won’t seem onerous and will actually benefit you in the long term. Shoba Narayan Regular squats help [...]
Time to use your non-dominant hand
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Thu, Oct 13 2016. 05 38 PM IST Time to use your non-dominant hand Using the non-dominant hand not only improves willpower and self-control, it opens up aspects of the brain we are not in touch [...]
Health at your fingertips
Home » Leisure » The Better Life Last Published: Thu, Oct 27 2016. 05 14 PM IST Health at your fingertips In mudras’ (hand gestures, used in most Eastern religions) ease lie their beauty and healing qualities Shoba Narayan Photo: iStockphoto It is the end [...]