Saumya Kalia

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia

(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)It truly seems to be the age of innovation that we are living in, not in the conventional sense of the term, but innovation at a pace that we have never seen before. It seems as if the development of the COVID vaccine in record time has been like a magic wand that’s opened up a Pandora’s box of possibilities.

1 month ago | behanbox.com | Saumya Kalia

Does a quick domestic help delivery service amount to modern slavery? Unions and activists posed this question in response to Urban Company’s entry into quick commerce with its Insta Maid (later changed to Insta Help) service this month. The app-based service platform offers a range of at-home services – plumbing, cleaning, beauty treatments, repair, etc – many available the same day or within a few hours.

1 month ago | behanbox.com | Saumya Kalia

Lakshmi Kaurav has a fondness for two identical sarees in her cupboard, both coffee-hued (the sunlight lightens it to a rich maroon). Both have a plain cream-beige border, worn the same way every day, with the pallu draped neatly over the shoulder. This dress is her ‘pehchaan (identity)’ as an ASHA facilitator in Madhya Pradesh, she says. The uniform saree’s colour itself changes across the state: in rural Sehore or Mundla Chhawal it is purple, in urban Gwalior or Indore it is a vibrant orange.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia

(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)You are going to have to wake up wide for this week’s newsletter, for this time, we are going to tell you about prioritising sleep. A good night’s sleep is highly underrated, but we are just coming to terms with the multiple impacts that sleep, or the lack of it, indeed, have on the human body.

2 months ago | thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia

(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)There is no shying away from the fact that without eternal vigilance at the turnstile of the infectious diseases pathway into the community, we will be allowing pathogens to traipse right into our midst, and if we are further unprepared, then, this will leave a devastating trail of destruction.