April 2009 - Posts - Life etc...

April 2009 - Posts

Money has no memory. Experience has.

Posted by Elizabeth Eapen at 
Said a forward that landed in my inbox this morning. And yes, we all know it, but perhaps we need to remind ourselves about it more often. I've been thinking about the rise and fall in the price of airline turbine fuel (ATF) and the resultant rise and fall in the price of airline tickets over the last few months. We carry a news item on this in...

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GPS? Nah, just ask the paan wallah

Posted by Ashish Bhatia at 
Over the last few years, I have purposefully strayed to several corners of Planet Earth armed with a GPS phone--ever attempting to route my hereabouts to thereabouts by means of a blinking satellite generated blip on a wee little mobile screen. I have used a Nokia N95's GPS as frontseat navigator for drives across Italy--Milan to Pisa, Florence...

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Have water, lose weight

Posted by Kavita Devgan at 
Ask me about how to lose weight and I'll ask you to glug down lots of water. My exact prescription actually is: Have a glass as soon as you get up. Then finish a 1 litre bottle of water at work before lunch time. One more bottle after lunch, to be finished by the time you leave for home. Keep a filled water bottle on your desk at all times, I suggest...

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Abhinav Bindra does not play cricket

Posted by Malavika R. Banerjee at 
It’s IPL season once again, and the Balika Badhus of the world are running for cover as the big daddy of all TRPs will dominate every TV screen in sight for the next six weeks. The legend of the Indian cricketers will grow and some of the foreign cricketers will also make gains in the Indian endorsement market. As part of a sports marketing company...

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So can I sell you the Golden Gate Bridge?

Posted by Himanshu Burte at 
Infrastructure. The word conjures up images of cables, electric pylons, drains and roads. But how about the Golden Gate Bridge? I see the iconic bridge in the distance, a number of times everyday as I walk from home to the University campus in Berkeley, California. Berkeley is just across the bay from San Francisco. Primarily known for the campus of...

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Don’t stress, or you’ll gain weight

Posted by Kavita Devgan at 
I tend to lose my appetite totally when I am stressed. My friends call me lucky. Whether I am lucky or not is a different story (as not eating enough has its own problems), but it is a fact that gaining pounds is often synonymous with stress for most. Still when trying to lose weight, almost everyone single-mindedly targets excess calories and overlooks...

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Were you healthier than your child?

Posted by Vandana Vasudevan at 
Last Saturday I was taking my 20-month-old son, burning with fever since the previous evening, to the paediatrican. The Saturday before that I had taken him to another paediatrican, and since the fever recurred within a week, we decided to change doctors. In early March I spent an entire week worried about my 7-year-old daughter's severe viral fever...

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Eat a happy diet!

Posted by Kavita Devgan at 
I know someone (actually, a whole lot of someones) who ends up eating a big bar of chocolate or a packet of chips just 20 minutes after a diet meal of, say, stir-fried mushrooms and a watery soup. Whatever calories she tries to save on her CalorieWise meal ends up doubled or tripled sooner rather than later — minus the satisfaction (and nutrients) of...

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What has age got to do with it?

Posted by Elizabeth Eapen at 
It will take more than a recession or a downturn to curb the spirit of optimism. The new weekly news and features magazine from the RPG Group, called OPEN , which hit the stands last week, is proof of that. And I would say amen. We can't be a ‘troubled global economy" for ever, can we? But this is not so much about OPEN itself, though I found...

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Should I quit my job and stand beside my man?

Posted by Vandana Vasudevan at 
A new book called Beside Every Successful Man by Megan Basham has triggered a clash of viewpoints in the West. It is a self-help book targeted at highly educated professional women. It urges them to give it all up to stand beside their husband/partner and make him a successful man. The deliberate word play is noteworthy: “behind” has been replaced with...

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Life's a tube of hot air till it goes phussss....

Posted by Benita Sen at 
Years ago, there was a television serial that I loved for its name: Junglee Toofan Tyre Puncture . Of late, I've begun to think of it frequently. Not because of the concrete jungle that Delhi is becoming. Nor because of any storm I'm raising anywhere. No guesses needed thereafter. Now, we're down to the second half of the name. In all these...

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