Becky Blab

Today is Blog Action Day for clean water, and it’s also Global Handwashing Day–except for us here in Rajasthan, where it’s been pushed back a month because of the holidays. In India, diarrhea is one of the top killers of children under five, and hand-washing is a simple yet powerful antidote. Of course, clean water [...]

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This is what Jim H. Broom, M.D., Psychiatrist, Sewanee, Tennessee, has to say about Isha Yoga:”Isha Yoga gives a clear, step-by-step methodology that leads one to new understandings and ways of being. One’s intuition and ability to choose what is healthy for oneself steadily increases with performance of the meditative practices given. Negative self-defeating patterns [...]

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Many refer to it as ‘nature’s curse on women’. It’s commonly thought of as unclean. In some cultures, women are not even allowed to cook during those days of month. But, path-breaking new research could change the way people view the menstrual cycle. And it’s here in India, for the first time ever. The blood [...]

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For publicising the risk of cervical cancer. And I hope you will be fine. According to TOI, The exit of British television celebrity Jade Goody from the reality show Big Boss was a shocker. But what surprised most was the revelation of the fatal disease – cervical cancer that Goody was detected with. The word [...]

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This is a heartening story from the front page, to do away with all the stories of sex-selection and missing girls in Rajasthan: Benefactors wrote a new chapter in the history of the state infamous for female infanticides, when they saved the life of a seven-month-old baby girl. Yogita was brought back from the brink [...]

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