Author: Karina Pandya

via Water Retention/Fluid Retention/Edema

Have you ever felt that no matter how much you diet or work out, your weight is just not going anywhere? You may notice unexplained weight gain over short periods of time. Our weight change only happens as a result of a change in muscle, fat and water weight! The first thing that needs to be reduced is our water weight. This is a common problem many of us have felt, and in such situations, the problem is not even in our hands! It’s because there are excess fluids in our bodies which build up and cause swellings in our…

Known to be the Haiku of Cinema, short films are especially well known for the story behind the short film seen. These films (original motion pictures) which do not run for more than 40 minutes fall under different categories such as drama, humour, emotion; anything that can grasp the attention of the audience.  These films have been given the Academy Awards, popularly known as Oscars since 1929, the time of its inception at a dinner party hosted by American actor, director & producer – Douglas Fairbanks in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.  The First Academy Awards ( Oscar Awards ) https://youtu.be/vJv38K0mrRo…

Cardboard, plastic, tin, mud, concrete, brick and waste material; all it takes to make a slum. Imagine… this is your house… the place you sleep every night and wake up inside every morning! However, there is no choice – you were born in poverty and life is a battle, battle for survival!    This is the life of billions and billions of people living across the world – in different slums, in countries. As a result of rapid urbanisation decent living conditions have become very scarce and cities are not at all prepared to accommodate any sort of growth especially…

                             Deshbhakti… the fondness, the faith, love or emotional bond to our country. Images of freedom fighters: Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bhagat Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar all conjure in the mind.  However, this is the ‘latent Deshbhakti’ we are constantly reminded of maybe once a year and neglected for the rest of the year! Patriotism of our nation is always healthy because that has inculcated a sense of pride for our country; and even extended to included a sense of alliance with other…

Technology has won the power to do many things and changing the world is one of them! With both science and technology, it has becomes easier to live our lives. The technology that is already present in our lives and what we are accustomed to has set about the roadmap for us to innovate things further.  For instance, take the simple example of a crayon –a coloured chalk or piece of wax or pencil. This simple invention was then innovated to add metallic colours and then neon colours and even glow in the dark colours. Similarly, innovation can be found…

How could we be so ignorant to have let this political wave take over us? Were we really so blind or brainwashed into believing anything that came our way or were circumstances just so arbitrarily misconstrued? A nostalgia which was mixed with racial resentment and geographical proximity, one of the greatest American migrations – the ‘White Flight’ took place in New York and many other places across the country in the  1950s and 1960s, where people from various European ancestries migrated to other parts of the city or country on a large scale. White people didn’t want to live next to people…

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