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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

  • Article

Mixed heritage lesbian couples and fertility treatment

For a lesbian couple who want to share their different cultural heritages with their child, fertility treatment can get very complicated.

  • Article

The desire for lighter skin

Discover why some Black people feel more attractive with lighter skin. Ngunan Adamu speaks to three women who explain how they got hooked on skin bleaching.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

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  • Two Indian women carrying water. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two Indian women dressed in different costumes. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two Indian women dressed in different clothes. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two women playing the dholak (Indian drum) and cymbals. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two Indian women wearing trousers banded with a wavy red pattern. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two Indian women working on the quern to grind the grain into flour. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Krishna rides of horse composed of women devotees. Engraving by an Indian artist, 18--.
  • Two women at a shop selling grains and pulses. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
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