Stories
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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Identifying skin lightening agents in cosmetics
Could your moisturiser be damaging your health? If it contains skin-lightening agents, the answer is yes. But this is an area where consumers definitely do not have the upper hand.
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What is structural violence?
Structural violence is seemingly invisible. But its tentacles have invaded every part of many people’s lives, thoughts, experiences and expectations, shaping them in ways they don’t even realise.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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An Indian sculpture of a couple embracing; representing the need for safe sex to protect Asians and Muslims against AIDS. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 666516i- Books
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Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia.
Ferrari, Fabrizio, 1971-Date: 2010- Books
Principal collections of papers in the Cambridge South Asian archives.
University of Cambridge. Centre of South Asian Studies.Date: 1983- Books
Sources of illness and healing in South Asian regional literature / edited by Beatrix Pfleiderer and Günther D. Sontheimer.
Date: [1983], ©1983- Books
The great tradition globalizes : reflections on two studies of t̓he industrial leaders ̓of Madras / John Harriss.
Harriss, John.Date: 2002