‘BUILDING PERSONAL RESOURCEFULNESS CRITICAL IN ENABLING MENTAL WELL-BEING’

July 5, 2022

Q: How is your organisation helping to make mental healthcare services more accessible in our country? A: We, at Authentic Living, provide therapy and other well-being services to adults and children digitally via virtual platforms to make it accessible to people irrespective of their geography. This also addresses the challenge...

Author-approved books that make great Mother’s Day gifts

May 6, 2022

Are you confused about what can be a thoughtful Mother’s Day gift but don’t have much time for it? It might be too late for a personalised gift, but there’s one gift you might be able to buy in a jiffy: a book. Whether your mother is a bookworm or...

Living life on own terms: Journey of an ambitious girl

April 15, 2022

The protagonist of ‘My Little Sunshine’, Shalini, is a career-oriented and ambitious girl, who is unapologetically herself. Shalini shares a strong bond with her parents, friends, especially Niki, friends-turned-family in a foreign land Hiral and Harshad and her adopted daughter Myrah. She builds her life and career in London. She...

HOW EMPLOYEES CAN COMBAT STRESS AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

September 11, 2021

World Suicide Prevention Day is an awareness day observed on 10 September every year to provide worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides. Purnima Ramakrishnan and Richa Singh spoke to The Daily Guardian about increased stress in work-from-home situations, the deteriorating mental health of employees, and the role of counselling...

‘Gita helped me to understand myself, made me more optimistic’

August 20, 2021

Author Richa Tilokani talks about her debut book ‘The teachings of Bhagavad Gita’. Richa Tilokani is a marketing, communication and advertising professional who is passionate about writing. Richa has written about wellness, travel, fashion, lifestyle, and culture in myriad magazines, newspapers, and blogs. She opens up about the inspiration behind...

HEALTHY EATING: AN APP TO HELP YOU STAY ON TRACK

July 6, 2021

A personalised AI-powered nutrition application Fitza calls itself India’s first-ever intelligent virtual nutrition coach. This app enables people with personalised guidance to lead healthier lives. It offers personalised and sustainable nutrition plans based on age-old practices, user likes and dislikes, grandma recipes and natural homemade remedies with proven outcomes and...

HOW DELTA PLUS CAN UNLEASH ANOTHER WAVE ON INDIA

June 29, 2021

The Delta Plus variant, a variant of concern, has already been identified in 11 countries and 12 states in India. It is the mutated form of the Delta variant of Covid-19 which was first detected in India. This variant is concerning since it spreads more rapidly than the other Covid-19...

HOW TO TAKE CARE OF COVID-POSITIVE CHILDREN

June 15, 2021

The Union Health Ministry recently issued certain guidelines to manage Covid-19 in children. This comes amid speculations that children can be a possible target of the third wave of Covid. The Ministry, in the guidelines, has said that Remdesivir is not recommended for children, and steroids should be used to...

ANALYSING HERD IMMUNITY’S EFFICACY THROUGH COVID-19 STUDY IN DHARAVI

June 4, 2021

Did Dharavi defeat Covid-19 because of herd immunity or was it sheer luck? A recent research cleared this doubt. The research, ‘Dharavi Slums (Mumbai, India): The Petri Dish of Covid-19 Herd Immunity’, was conducted by Dr Deepali Bhardwaj, Centre for Skin and Hair Pvt Ltd, India, with Zameer Shervani, Food...

Vaccinate kids so that they can go to school: Mother of 12-year-old who moved HC

June 1, 2021

A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court by a 12-year-old girl named Tia Gupta seeking directions to immediately vaccinate children between 12 and 17 years in Delhi and prioritise vaccination of their parents. The plea moved by Tia and her mother Neoma Gupta also asks for formulating...