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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · V Shoba

    Wholesome Healing: From Ayurveda to naturopathy to yoga, Holistic treatment is a data-driven luxury (opens the original)

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    At Bengaluru’s edges, the liminal landscape of apartment towers and warehouses rising amidst red earth and green fields is home to many of the city’s retreats: Jindal Naturecure on Tumkur Road, Kshemavana near Nelamangala, the Art of Living centre off Kanakapura Road and SOUKYA beyond Whitefield. “Bengaluru is not just the IT capital, it’s the capital of natural health, with many Ayurveda, naturopathy, yoga and integrative medicine institutions,” points out Dr Issac Mathai, founder and

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · V Shoba

    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 signature—kohl-eyed, brilliantly coloured and elaborately coiffed—has 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,

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · V Shoba

    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 DMK’s 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 actor’s, as he theatrically accused DMK of scrapping AIADMK’s schemes after 2021 and of leaving

  4. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · V Shoba

    True to Sound: The bold reinvention of Ghatam, a traditional musical instrument (opens the original)

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    SOMETIME IN THE late ’90s, in the middle of a concert in Chennai, N Guruprasad’s ghatam broke in his lap. “Sud­denly, boom. That’s it,” he recalls. A friend of his fetched a pot of the same pitch from home and the emer­gency 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

  5. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · V Shoba

    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 ₹5-8 crore, has not yet received formal appr

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