Dr. Shruti Sreedharan

The Preface A tiny town on the Western coasts of Gujarat. It was 7:30 in the evening, but the city stood splendid with colors as the sunlight was still lighting up the city. It is thrilling that the sun sets pretty late in this part of the country. ‘Chandu’s Pan Ki Dukaan’, a little shop in the Northern corner of the street was packed with men of almost all ages. This was the scene every evening as it was not just another Pan and Tea shop, but a hangout hub for the men in the town where they exchanged news…

THE TANGY STARTER… Let’s take a quick flashback. Imagine yourself as a teenager say around 13 years old, and its a calm December evening and you are at your friend’s place, discussing some Christmas holiday homework. Obviously no discussions among friends are over without some chit chat. So you guys keep on talking and by chance when you look out of the window, you realize that it’s getting dark. Now that annoyed face of your Mom, flashes before your eyes and you just want to get back home, so that you are not scolded. You jump out of your friend’s…

LIFESTYLE DISORDERS It’s been a few decades that, this word has walked into our lives. Couple of years back, as teenagers, we believed in “Live Life King Size” and where on the wheels all the time to rush into an Adult Life. When no one would pester you to eat timely, eat healthy, eat wholesome and all those ‘Grannies Advises’. When we could take our own decisions, earn our own money and eat anything and everything at anytime, anywhere, with anyone. And with God’s grace or by the Law of Nature the much dreamed adulthood moved in not very late…

WHAT IS THIS “INSID E – OU TSID E” THING? I would love to quote few self-explanatory lines as an answer to this question. “Yatha Pinde Tatha Brahmande, Yatha Brahmande Tatha Pinde.”                                         – Yajur Veda That is –“As is the individual or the human body, so is the universe or the Cosmic Body, and the vice versa.” “The Cosmos Is Within Us. We Are Made Of Star – Stuff. We Are A Way For The Universe To Know Itself.” -…

‘Smart phone’ on hearing this word, things that may flash across your thoughts are not less. Starting from the morning alarm that woke you up to your official world, to the friends get-together, to the daily workout schedules, to hours of chit chat with your lover or spouse on the other side of the world… this list may not end even if I use this entire magazine to pen down the roles a smart phone plays in our lives. But imagine, if you forget to charge the batteries of your smartphone… Oh! I think that’s impossible, because forgetting to charge…