Between the body and the mind, age is just a numberCombining mentally stimulating activities such as using a computer with moderate exercise decreases your odds of having memory loss.
28 Sep, 2013, 05.22 AM IST
- Muzzle guzzle!
It was Socrates who hinted at the dissatisfaction that propels gluttony, which St Aquinas also described as “an inordinate desire that defi...
02 Aug, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- 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...
19 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Power brandBeryl Bender Birch met Norman Allen in New York by sheer chance. Allen was the Mysore-based Master Pattabhi Jois’ first western student of ...
19 Dec, 2012, 05.15 AM IST
Going gaga over yogaReverend Albert Mohler , president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, confesses to being an unlikely ‘folk hero in India’ on Twi...
01 Dec, 2010, 07.26 AM IST
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...
17 Nov, 2010, 05.44 AM IST
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 ...
03 Jul, 2010, 05.21 AM IST
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...
19 Sep, 2009, 01.40 AM IST