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My yoga teacher Farina Redkar is one of our well-wishers. She is the one who helped me with inputs for the article on Kandrasana (http://ajournalistreveals.com/kandrasan/). What she told me during our yoga session today was an eye-opener. Dengue, everybody knows, is caused by viruses injected by mosquitoes during the day. ...

Like I said in a previous article, last week I had attended a 3-day conference. Delegates from different countries had attended the event. During the tea-break on the first day, I met a girl from Indonesia, who asked me where they form human pyramid. Initially, I did not know what ...

Gestures can mean a world of things. Often they speak dirty language. But that is adult language. When a seventh grader’s gestures take on a dirty meaning? What happens? This incident also happened in the Kandivali school I was teaching in. I was made the class teacher of this 7th ...

This incident happened when I had just joined a school in Kandivali, Mumbai. It was the beginning of the academic year and the 10th std. students just had their prelims exams. The principal requested all the new teachers to help with the correction of the papers and we chipped in. ...

Come Independence Day, many of us have functions in our schools, organisations and even in our housing societies. We decorate the premises with balloons, paper and even flags. But after the celebrations what happens? The main flag that is hoisted is folded and placed inside safely. What happens to the ...

Ambulances have become such a part and parcel of hospitals and medical care that they are many times taken for granted. I remember one incident. When I was a teacher, we were taken to a stadium in South Mumbai for a Sports event. One girl fell unconscious. All efforts by ...