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Menopause: Misery or Not
Are you on that side of your forties when you feel a little bloated from time to time and break out into sweat in the middle of the night? Even that splash of cold water or that ice pack couldn’t relieve you from the heat and it went away suddenly leaving you shivering?
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Be Conscious
Of what you use and what you throw, lest you add to plastic islands in our oceans and land. Join your neighborhood armies that ‘plog’. Next time you buy a packet of Lays or Kurkure, hit the pause button. You are now eating the junk inside. A few weeks later you could be consuming that plastic too.
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This Army silently picks your litter
The next time you chuck trash on the roads or in the park, give a thought to the ‘Ploggers’ It started with one man going on his morning jog with his eight-year old daughter. Not able to tolerate trash that defiled his revered planet, Nagraj started picking them up to dispose in the trash cans.
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Wedded to the Planet
Big fat Indian weddings have FAT wastes generated. There are a small group of people making a change in the way weddings are conducted. Wedding are getting grander by the day. The visual feast, which goes viral, has entranced its viewers. Decorations, lightings, innumerable food counters, and nowadays a dream-like entry of the pair to accompanying fireworks, is the pattern. Everyone, regardless of means, wants their own version of a fairyland wedding and the excuse for the extravaganza often is, ‘after all, it is once in a lifetime’.
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The Art of Yakshagana and Its Artistes
Prasad Cherkadi was studying magnetism and came to Bangalore about fifteen years ago from the coastal town of Brahmavar to study for a PhD at the Indian Institute of Science and realised he wanted to become an artist and perform Yakshagana, instead. He was part of a group called Dheemgina meaning ‘movement’. Mohammed Yacoob, a journalist in Bangalore met Prasad in the group and together they performed a few shows with the troupe.
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