Jigyasa JAIN responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? Beauty, for me, is being unapologetically ‘me.’ While wearing a subtle, unobtrusive make-up wouldn’t hurt anybody, the most beautiful thing you’d ‘wear’ 24×7 is confidence. Confidence gives you the ability to feel good without needing someone to tell you. It is, likewise, just as important
Dr Ambika P NAYAK responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? Childhood dream; also aspiration. What made you think of, study and specialise in the system of medicine you now practice? Ayurveda celebrates holism in health and medicine — this caught my attention, not just fancy. Add to
Kiron B SHENOY responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? Beauty is skin deep. This is an age-old saying; yet, it encases a simple truth. Beauty is an indispensable element in glamour and its arc light-centric world. I’d, therefore, rate charisma as being more important. A charismatic person casts a long-lasting impression. Beauty, as
Words: K R CHANDRIKA It all happened 21 years ago — a time of great emotional and physical upheaval when the ‘Big C’ hit me like machine gunfire. It’s pragmatic medical intervention, wonderful support and love of my family, parents, relatives and friends that helped me surmount all odds and beat cancer from the inside
Dr Gauri ROKKAM responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I always wanted to either teach, or treat [read, heal] people. I was not inclined towards modern medicine — this was because of my belief systems during my upbringing. My father is a naturopath and yoga exponent. All
Lalchand RAJPUT responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? “The best part of beauty,” as philosopher Francis Bacon said, “is that which no picture can express.” This is what I’d like to relate to, not merely physical beauty. Agreed that a person with a good-looking, handsome face captures our attention, but what stays eternal
Lavanya SURESH responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? Beauty has a glut of facets, including the age-old cliché that it resides in the eyes of the beholder. If I were asked what beauty means to me, personally, my spontaneous riposte would be the Tamil proverb, Agathin azhagu mugathil theriyum. When transliterated into English,
Dr Jagannath M BORAMANI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I did not quite like biology during my school. I loved physics. That my brother went to IIT-Mumbai may have had something to do with it? Possibly. Well, my parents wanted me to become a doctor. My brother
Madhurima GOSWAMI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? I strongly believe in Audrey ‘My Fair Lady’ Hepburn’s timeless aphorism, “The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes,
Dr Pravin N MHATRE responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I had, right from my formative years, a fascination for the human body, and its myriad intricate mechanisms that work with amazing symmetry, also synchrony. Its basic science, or understanding, from the inside out, was of equal interest
