Smart, & freeThe wise man’s moral is to stick to it! But sustain your exercise long enough so as to avoid burnout. Call it yukta (smart) practice that e...
23 Feb, 2012, 04.15 AM IST
Get set, not seatA growing body of research seems to suggest that what you do when you are not exercising determines your true level of fitness.
01 Sep, 2011, 01.37 AM IST
Walking the Health talkOn a full moon of Vesak, after spending several days and nights in contemplation under the canopy of a peepul tree, Siddhartha Gautama beca...
16 Feb, 2011, 06.32 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
Discern the culture, between the notesPandit Rajeev Taranath starts his sarod recital with a story. “Hanuman became worried after he burnt Lanka,” says the distinguished maestro...
12 Sep, 2009, 05.35 AM IST
Without divine grace nothing worksEvery yoga buff worth his skid-proof mat knows this today — the 5,000-year-old system has poses named after animals. In the days before pri...
11 Apr, 2009, 01.09 AM IST
Detached practice leads to perfectionIn the early years of their discovery, X-rays were a rage in fashionable society. People got X-rayed the way they had photographs. All this...
25 Feb, 2009, 03.01 AM IST