Preeti ALAGUNDAGI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Compassion for others, as also oneself, defines beauty. This translates to treating the other person, be it a friend, or complete stranger, with compassion and respect. God created beauty, yes; but, we human beings have more or less warped, or distorted, it. Beauty cannot be
Dr Vansh LUNIYA responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It was a blissful accident, also god-sent, perhaps, that I chose homeopathy for a career. Well, I was all set to enrol in forensic sciences, but, by a quirk, I opted for BHMS. When I look back, I
Srilaxmi M KARAJGI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Beauty, in my view, is simplicity personified. It is also being able to carry oneself with confidence. This is all that matters. However, our all-pervasive, or ‘perverse,’ obsession with social media has led to us believe that we ought to fit into ‘so-called’ beauty
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Research suggests that the sea and ocean are our new, big frontiers for natural medicine, in the 21st century. You name them — fish oils, seaweed, sea salt, among others. They are curative medicines. They are natural. They are available in profusion. Most importantly, they provide a great degree of therapeutic
Sarthak Manchanda, who holds a Masters in Computer Science with specialisation in Artificial Intelligence from University College Dublin, Ireland, and BTech in Computer Science from IP University, was working with companies like Intel Research and Autodesk Inc., in Ireland, before switching over to a key role — to launching and building Smart Diet Planner. He
Dr Priyanka BORAMANI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I’m blessed to have parents who have always supported me. My dad is a renowned ophthalmologist, but neither he nor my mom pressurised me to pursue medicine. My mother would always encourage me to pursue what I liked
Words: Drs Ranjita NAHARIA & Anand Prakash VERMA Sankramaka roga and aupsargika rogas are certain terminologies of Ayurveda associated with communicable diseases. According to the tenets of Ayurveda, the pandemic could be described as janapadodhwansa, depending upon jala, kala and desha. Jwara and shosha are major features of sankramaka roga, as observed in the current
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Question: We have all, especially in traditional families, heard about and also used several kitchen, or natural, remedies for common ailments, without knowing how to take them, including their actual application and benefits. It would be great if you’d sum up their ‘A-Z’ for us and your other readers. — JC, Kolkata
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Spinach, a nutrient powerhouse, can be consumed raw, or cooked. It, however, provides more nutrients when cooked. Do you know that cooking spinach actually increases its health benefits? Just half a cup of cooked spinach will give you thrice the amount of nutrition as one cup of raw spinach. This is because
Radhika SHARMA responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Beauty, it is rightly said, is not physicality, or good looks, alone. It is, indeed, a quirk, or fallacy, that we often relate to external beauty as alluring, which it is certainly not. Most folks describe their self-worth based primarily on their outward appearance —
