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Pseud feudsYoga also had a strong teacher-to-student culture to keep out pedants and pseuds. The result: no books. Only practice!- Use it or Lose it!Experience over millennia, however, shows that the much-feared decline into “second childishness and mere oblivion” can be challenged and e...
- Ageless actionKhushwant Singh, who was your columnist's beloved first boss, says he is coming on to 98 years and is still earning more than he did in his...
- Practice makes one perfectWith persistence, one can cut the hardest rock with the softest rope,” says a verse attributed to the medieval mystic-poet Kabir . “With pr...
- Soulful food is safe tooBrevity is of the essence in oral cultures. That explains why they likened the joy of trimming a sutra to that resulting from the birth of ...
- Watch the breath. It’ll make you smarterAll of us breathe,” the celebrated yoga maestro B K S Iyengar told your columnist recently. “But most of us do so unconsciously. We are awa...
- You got to use it lest you lose itSixty years ago, the secret of healthy longevity came to Jerry Morris in the guise of a British double-decker bus. The war had just ended a...
- Make your own happinessHenry William Allingham’s ‘antiquity’ was mind-boggling. When he died at 113 years last week he was the world’s oldest man and one of the l...
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