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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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The first seizure

Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.

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Not one yoga, but many yogas

From ancient tradition to modern gym class, yoga means many things to many people.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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  • Hindu goddesses Lakshami and Saraswati playing castanets and a tambura. Watercolour drawing.
  • Figure of Saraswati, Hindu Goddess, standing on a duck
  • Rati, Hindu goddess of love, shooting arrows with her bow. Gouache painting an Indian artist.
  • Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning and knowledge and the wife of Brahma. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Dhumavati, Hindu goddess of misfortune and unpleasantness, sitting in a chariot drawn by birds before a dead body. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A three eyed Hindu deity with four arms sitting across a goddess with four arms holding rosary beads. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Rati, Hindu goddess of love, shooting arrows with a bow while seated on a horse formed from five women. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Devi, the wife of the Hindu God Siva. Goddess has two forms, one mild and the other fierce. Here she is depicted in the form of fierce, when she is known as Durga or Kali.
  • Lakshmi sitting on a lotus being anointed by two elephants. Watercolour drawing.
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