Shagorika Easwar

Dec 23, 2024 | e-desinews.com | Shagorika Easwar

By LADYBUG  Gardeners are frugal by nature. We save seeds, divide plants and root cuttings to fill our gardens to overflowing and to share with friends. My sons tease me for not getting rid of old wires but bring me bunches from devices they are retiring. They make the best ties, weather resistant and with a ‘give’ that twine lacks.

Dec 23, 2024 | e-desinews.com | Shagorika Easwar

By SHAGORIKA EASWARDr Tara Kiran opted for family medicine over seemingly more glamorous specializations because “family medicine is grounded in the community over the life of a patient”. The Fidani Chair in Improvement and Innovation at the University of Toronto and Vice-Chair of Quality and Innovation at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dr Kiran practices family medicine at the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team.

Nov 20, 2024 | e-desinews.com | Shagorika Easwar

By SHAGORIKA EASWAROnce upon a time, long, long ago, a friend showed me how to make diyas out of candle stubs. We were both not even 10 at the time, and she led the way in our adventures. Fortunately, in this instance, she realized we needed adult assistance – supervision was not something she would readily submit to! If I recall correctly, this is how it went. We dug a small hole in the kitchen garden behind her home and got her older brother to place a couple of candles in it.

Nov 20, 2024 | e-desinews.com | Shagorika Easwar |Chandrakant Shah

By SHAGORIKA EASWARThis past summer I caught a performance of Modern Times Stage Company’s presentation of The Caged Bird Sings. A re-imagining and radical adaptation of Rumi’s Masnavi, it revealed a cage within a cage as the surreal piece unfolded for audiences in the courtyard at the Aga Khan Museum. The press release explained that it was about two prisoners who, as they navigate their new-found reality and reconcile their past lives, are haunted by ghosts and demons of their own making.

Nov 20, 2024 | e-desinews.com | Shagorika Easwar

By SHAGORIKA EASWAR As science advances, so does the science of adulteration. The days of white and coloured stones in rice and pulses are long gone – now adulterants are difficult to tell apart from the real thing. Peanut shells in cumin, tomato skins in paprika, and toxic dyes in turmeric. What’s a consumer to do? That’s where food scientist Dr Arun Krishnamurthy comes in.