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Yoga is for healing, not for showing how much you can twist your body or how weird poses you can do. Doing postures that don't suit your body may lead to serious injury, and most tough postures that some yoga teachers want you to achieve are not suited for most people. Is this yoga, indeed?  Such postures put a lot of concentrated pressure on some parts and the heart. I have culled out some postures from webpages, which, unless done by long-time yoga doers under expert supervision, can harm the yoga practitioner very badly. As if standing on head at a beach were not enough,she tries it on a stool! Do yogic postures (asanas) and breath exercises (pranayamas) that go with your age, physical makeup, medical condition, and the weather. PS: I have nothing against the postures given here or the websites or organisations encouraging practitioners to do these postures. I hope, these postures have been learnt by perfectly fit youth under supervision of medical and

The name of Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is well known in media circles. He along with Jyotirmoy Chaudhury wrote an article in the Economic & Political Weekly in the backdrop of media-corporate nexus relating to Essar group in 2015 in which they have discussed how mediapersons have been behaving like middlemen, fixers and crooks.  There is a great deal of discussion on the independence of and ethical standards in the mainstream media these days. Though the context in current discussion is mainly political, this article reminds media watchers of how media standards have decline over years. I am, therefore, pasting scans of the EWS article below.  Special thanks to EPW and authors.

Many of us have gone through an education system in which learning things was a burden, and we hated what the system thought was best for making us a learned person. Many of us have also undergone additional 'learning' for beating others in competitive examinations. Then, not all of us have got the job in the field of our passion, and the training that the employer thought was good for upgrading our skills was not always fulfilling. Learning has seldom been a fun, leave aside joy. And one day when we are old, we think we are really too old for learning. So, those of us whose college life is over, and those who do not need to learn new things beyond tricks of their profession or career, and those who are past their 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's - all have stopped learning unless we have doggedly kept our learning spirit alive. Speaking on age, Osho has often said that you start aging when you stop learning, and you get stony when you stop to learn. A long

I am reminded of a senior officer in the government who would ask all division heads to give total number of pending legal cases at the end of the month. The ones who could show none or just a few cases would be appreciated and those with a large number of pending cases would be publicly reprimanded. The irony was that the one with the largest pendency was the one who cleared the largest number of cases month after month. The second unlucky one was the one who had lesser number of cases but each was an extremely tricky case that took years to resolve. Coming to the economy. Politicians tout economic figures during their period, choosing the base year as it suits them, especially those of inflation. So, you could say, the price of a particular item, which was Rs. 35 a kilo in 2013 has gone up to Rs. 65 now, becoming double in six years. Your opponent might take the figure of even 2 years before when the price of this item might have been high for some days, at Rs. 50 and claim that