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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 13
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- Sep 26, 2026
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Wholesome Healing: From Ayurveda to naturopathy to yoga, Holistic treatment is a data-driven luxury (opens the original)
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At Bengaluruâs edges, the liminal landscape of apartment towers and warehouses rising amidst red earth and green fields is home to many of the cityâs retreats: Jindal Naturecure on Tumkur Road, Kshemavana near Nelamangala, the Art of Living centre off Kanakapura Road and SOUKYA beyond Whitefield. âBengaluru is not just the IT capital, itâs the capital of natural health, with many Ayurveda, naturopathy, yoga and integrative medicine institutions,â points out Dr Issac Mathai, founder and
Saving Face: With his new wall reliefs, G Ravinder Reddy asks whether an image needs volume to feel monumental (opens the original)
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G Ravinder Reddy spent four decades making faces too large to forget. The monumental female head that became his signatureâkohl-eyed, brilliantly coloured and elaborately coiffedâhas now been flattened into relief. In four reliefs completed over the past year-and-a-half, the face has disappeared altogether. What remains is hair, coiled, heaped, combed into waves, pinned with jasmine and marigold and red hearts, swelling from the frame. Many viewers first see a beautiful juda. Some see waves,
The Act of One: Power has only added to the performance of Vijay (opens the original)
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On the morning of September 7, the Tamil Nadu Assembly was given over to Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, who four days ago had promised to answer DMKâs questions on law and order. He spoke at length but only a few minutes were devoted to the questions about crime and curbing of dissent. Most of his replies either lacked specifics or meandered into generic assurances. The remaining speech was the actorâs, as he theatrically accused DMK of scrapping AIADMKâs schemes after 2021 and of leaving
True to Sound: The bold reinvention of Ghatam, a traditional musical instrument (opens the original)
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SOMETIME IN THE late â90s, in the middle of a concert in Chennai, N Guruprasadâs ghatam broke in his lap. âSudÂdenly, boom. Thatâs it,â he recalls. A friend of his fetched a pot of the same pitch from home and the emerÂgency was handled. Every ghatam player has had an evening like this one. The ghatam is one of the most visible objects on the Carnatic music stage and one of the easiest instruments to overlook: a clay belly tucked behind the violin and the mridangam, traditionally enl
Mudslinging Time: A proposal to hold a coastal buffalo race has ignited a culture war in Karnataka (opens the original)
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KAMBALA IS A buffalo race run in the flooded paddy fields of coastal Karnataka. A pair of animals, yoked together, is driven down a track of slush by a man holding a rope or balanced on a plank behind them. This year, even as the rains have largely failed, the state government wants to bring Kambala to Mysuru. The proposal to showcase the coastal buffalo race at Dasara this October, weeks before the season would normally open, at a projected cost of â¹5-8 crore, has not yet received formal appr
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