Watch a tiny ripple, in turn create so many ripples; what goes around, comes around; as you sow, so shall you reap. Hasn’t the human race always fantasised fatalism? Triumph of good over bad, saint over sinner, virtues over vice? Today, as we feel great about all that stands for evil being reduced to ashes, here’s asking the young and the breathless, what according to them is the ultimate evil that needs to be made as historical as the occasion we commemorate.
Theory of frivolity
A man’s ring fingers indicating his traffic sense, multiple dating for a successful marriage, alcoholic women giving birth to naughty children — how does one make sense of such weird studies?
How would you define research? Something that Albert Einstein, Alfred Noble, James Watt and others in the same league carried out to enrich the world with their break-through inventions or something our present-day researchers doing to find cures for AIDS, cancer or even the H1NI?
Besides these, there is another breed these days who work hard on anything, literally ‘just anything’.
Clinically speaking
Men-o-pause
Dr S.K. Singh from the PGI talks about the hormonal changes in men that lead to prostrate problems in men after 45
If you have to get up several times in the middle of the night to pass urine, get yourself checked because you may have prostate problems like inflammation of these glands, enlargement of the gland or even prostate cancer. Dr S.K. Singh, professor in Urology department of PGI says, “About 30 per cent of the population between the age of 45 to 80 years suffer from prostate problems. And almost 20-25 per cent would require treatment.”
BODY WISE
Protein power
Protein is essential to our body. It helps in the growth, maintenance and repair of body tissues. It acts as the energy source while we do any physical work. Here are answers to some of the most commonly sought questions regarding proteins.
Mystic wisdom
Pothi pad pad jag mua pandit bhyo na koye/ Dhai akshar prem ke padde so pandit hoye. (None found enlightenment reading big tomes. Those realising the essence of love got emancipation). Such wisdom incarnate utterances of the divine philosopher and literary saint Kabir had been influencing the mindset of humanity for over six centuries and his teachings hold all-time relevance for society and culture.
Holiday on the couch
Catch the festival of movies and special episodes on the boob tube as the celebrations and holidays set the mood
The best possible thing one can do on a holiday is sit, relax, and watch television. That is after the exhaustive shopping, pujas and cleaning the house. And getting cue from this leisure viewership, the channelwallahs are ready to dish out their dose of festive bonanza. Cash in on movies, specials and surprises in the week-long affair.
FANatics
Salman Khan mobbed at city football ground Kolkata
A friendly football match, in which Bollywood actor Salman Khan was scheduled to play, was cancelled today after the star was mobbed by an unruly crowd at a local football club ground in
Kolkata.
Look who’s hiding!
The bold and beautiful Mallika Sherawat wasn’t her revealing best recently
To avoid being mobbed, Bollywood actor Mallika Sherawat wore a burqa during her visit to this city on Friday. Minutes after alighting from a plane at Devi Ahiliya Bai Airport, Sherawat put on a burqa to hide her identity. "I repeatedly requested her to remove the burqa for a while and pose for a photograph, but she did not.
In the fitness of things
Do you believe in everything that comes out in the name of research? If yes, will you alter your diet chart and living style according to those?
I will not bring in any changes in my lifestyle following the published studies. All one needs to keep fit is have healthy diet which comprises green vegetables, pulses and milk products. Some exercises and yoga can help anyone keep fit and you certainly don’t need any study to establish this fact.
