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Swati Sharma is a senior journalist with over 24 years of experience. She is the Features Editor of Deccan Chronicle.
    Festivity with a silver liningLifestyle
    Festivity with a silver lining

    Covid-19 nor the devastating rains can dampen the spirit of Navratri. The celebrations at home, within the family...

    21 Oct 2020 12:12 PM IST

    Warring with foodLifestyle
    Warring with food

    This mental health condition affects anyone but is most prevalent among young women and is marked by an obsession with...

    19 Oct 2020 4:23 PM IST

    PilatesSunday Chronicle
    4 moves for stronger core

    When it comes to abs exercises, you don-'t have to do anything complicated to feel the muscles develop

    18 Oct 2020 3:06 PM IST

    Xavier Augustin, an entrepreneur and travel enthusiast, believes that trees are the embodiment of all the elements that make us on the planetSunday Chronicle
    Restore your calm by soaking up the beauty of forests

    Nature therapy, which is believed to boost one’s physical and mental wellbeing, has now taken the world by storm

    30 Aug 2020 1:06 AM IST

    Representational imageLifestyle
    Eyes online

    With online classes still looking like a permanent addition in student lives, eye care has become mandatory

    20 Aug 2020 8:01 PM IST

    Nisha KhannaLifestyle
    Can you paint your way out of pain?

    Art has long been used as a tool for catharsis, enabling individuals and communities to cope with grief, pain and trauma

    19 Aug 2020 6:29 PM IST

    Parents of pre-schoolers and kindergarteners are especially a harried lot as their children are too young to operate technologyLifestyle
    The travails of schooling online amid a pandemic

    With regular classes unlikely to restart soon, schools still resort to online lessons. But how are the kids faring?

    14 Aug 2020 7:11 PM IST

    The rise of robots in the hospitality sectorLifestyle
    The rise of robots in the hospitality sector

    Automation is slowly but steadily setting into various roles in the hospitality industry. How would that affect workers?

    10 Aug 2020 7:11 PM IST

    Doctor screen residents of an apartment complex for COVID-19 symptoms in Mumbai. PTI PhotoLifestyle
    Scientists now documenting a growing list of symptoms for COVID-19,...

    The new and surprising symptoms that have appeared include stroke, blood clotting, the rare Kawasaki disease and purple...

    28 July 2020 6:40 PM IST

    Aam Aadmi Party MLA Atishi who recently recovered from COVID-19, donates plasma at the Plasma Bank in ILBS Hospital, during Unlock 2.0, in New Delhi. PTI PhotoScience
    Does plasma therapy really help COVID-19 patients?

    Experts weigh in whether convalescent plasma therapy is as dependable in fighting COVID-19 as celeb tweets claim

    20 July 2020 6:17 PM IST

    A health worker collects a swab sample from a young girl for COVID-19 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test at Madan Puri, a containment zone, in Gurugram. PTI PhotoLifestyle
    With the pandemic still raging, it’s no time to throw caution to the...

    Avoiding close face-to-face contact is the best way to reduce virus spread, say experts

    19 July 2020 7:37 PM IST

    Representational image (Twitter)Lifestyle
    Beware of Insta-‘Therapists’

    As mental health gets more visibility, is counselling becoming a money-making game for unqualified influencers

    16 July 2020 7:52 PM IST

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