“With the lockdown, the people are binge-watching contents on the OTT platforms. Online concerts and webinars are taking place on Facebook and Instagram. But we wanted to do something where we can participate and contribute, instead of appreciating from a distance”, Aritra Basu, MPhil Scholar in...
A few years back Deepika Padukone had struggled to hold back tears as she talked about depression. The news about her dark days when she lacked the desire to even get out of bed, had people talking. The most common reaction was surprise. People wondered why a celebrity would even be depressed? But a...
One of the effects of this corona pandemic is to make you think about your lungs and respiratory system. Can you breathe easily?It is vitally important to protect your lungs. There are things you cannot control individually (like air pollution, unless you have a factory that is creating it. Don’t ...
The EAT-Lancet Commission report has focused on the goal of achieving planetary health diets for nearly 10 billion people by 2050. The report states that a large body of work has dealt with the environmental impacts on various diets. Majority of the studies concluded that a rich plant-based diet wit...
Globally, the coronavirus pandemic has taken an alarming proportion. The number of cases has also been steadily rising in India. In absence of any effective vaccine, the only way to control the pandemic is to prevent transmission and by providing critical supportive treatment to patients.India needs...
Yoga is an art and science of human life. It is a useful technique to keep one physically fit and mentally prepared to discover the real nature of consciousness. This quest has been the foundation of all great Yogic teachings and the goal of many great mystics. There is evidence in histor...
I read a book by Laura Spinney called the ‘Pale Rider’, which is on the Spanish Flu of 1918, a disease that killed a hundred million people worldwide. Two hundred and sixty pages is a lot of reading time, so here are the salient points. History is teaching us an important lesson. ...
Pandemics of the 21st centurySwine flu (2009-2010The pandemic was caused by an H1N1 virus strain. In March 2009, the virus was found to be transmitted among people fast. This resulted in respiratory infections with mild to severe symptoms. The initial cases were reported in Southern California...
Presently, the priority for major pharmaceutical companies is to discover a vaccine for the coronavirus (Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2). Dr. Kuntal Ghosh, Consultant, Palliative Care Unit, Saroj Gupta Cancer Research Centre and Research Institute (SGCCRI), West Bengal, informed BE, “Different countrie...
According to a report by the EAT-Lancet Commission, “Food is the single strongest lever to optimise human health and environmental sustainability on Earth.” However, according to experts, there is an immense challenge in providing healthy diets from sustainable food systems to the ever-growing w...