Veterinary Future
The first and foremost attribute required for a good veterinarian is genuine love and compassion for animals. A good vet must read the signs from the animal’s behaviour and diagnose the ailment. Vets must be More...
Goodbye waka waka
From Ronaldo to Rooney, it has been a World Cup of disaster for superstars. Even the ‘super’ teams like Brazil and Italy failed to fire. Arunava Chaudhuri looks back at the sporting extravaganza to get the More...
Voyage of Discovery
The enormity of a major journey, I have always found, doesn’t hit you when you embark upon it. Only when it’s over and you’ve returned to the safe sanctuary of familiar surroundings, does it really sink in. More...
Be wary of kidney diseases
The kidneys remove waste, toxins and excess fluid from the blood. They also help to regulate body water and secrete important hormones in the blood to control blood pressure, make red blood cells and build strong More...
Indian wildlife: The lost world
Living-Jewels-from-Indian-bigLiving Jewels from the Indian Jungle | Edited by Ashok S Kothari, Boman F Chhapgar | Publisher: BNHS and OUP | Price: Rs 600 Could you, even in your wildest imagination, envisage More...
Destiny, Heaven & Hell
By David Frawley Is Life Predestined? There is a destiny or karmic pattern to our lives. Whatever exists in the realm of time must follow the rhythms of time and the law of cause and effect. The present fruit must More...
Uncovering the drugged truths
Drugs have been part of our culture since the mid 20th century. Popularized in the 1960s by music and mass media, they have invaded all aspects of our society. An estimated 208 million people internationally consume More...
Good Wife
One morning Doctor Suleiman Alim looked up from the Business Section of the New York Times and saw his wife. He was hit solidly, as if it were a blast of hot air, with a feeling he could only think of as surprise. He More...
Forgiving Lessons
THIS is a story about my mother, a daughter of Malaysia, who became an agent of change. She transcended boundaries of prejudice, age, gender and race in an era where women were busy in the bedroom rather than the More...
The Ache of Pain
If you look at all the pleasures you get in life, they all come with a ‘tax’ called sorrow. Every event, however pleasant, causes pain in the end. Greater the joy; greater is the pain. Longing for an event or More...
