カテゴリー: Life and style
Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer‘Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,” is how Ruhi Singh* describes her exp…
Freedom to use devices could curb prostitution, divorce and sex-related crimes, says Democrat party politicianA conservative Thai political party has backed the legalisation of sex toys as it seeks to revive its appeal before a looming general election…
Exporting churpi, herders’ smoked yak cheese, has transformed lives in remote Himalayan villagesOn a cold, wet August morning in the windswept high pastures of the Nepalese Himalayas, a stream of herders bring fresh milk to a makeshift tent at an altit…
At eight, I was sent from England to live with relatives in Goa for four years. The experience shook me out of my timid existence and led to a profound sense of belongingIn 1984, I boarded a musty Air India plane with my aunt, leaving my parents and ba…
My new independence has been met with everything from curiosity to awkward laughter. But this is about me, not themWhen Lost Migrations, an animated film series I’d been waiting to see for months, finally premiered in Karachi earlier this year, I immed…
Babysitting is all very well, but to truly lighten a woman’s load, partners must juggle physical, emotional and cognitive labour‘Like many men of my generation, I wanted to be a more present father than my own had been.” As I read the first sentence of…
Which language immigrant parents should speak at home has been endlessly debated. For now, we have not passed Urdu onto our childrenAs a second-generation British Pakistani growing up in Bradford, I was surrounded by Urdu and smatterings of Punjabi. En…
Practitioners fear Indian culture has been ‘suppressed by colonisation’ while some question accessibilityYoga has been a big part of Nadia Gilani’s life since she was introduced to the practice by her mother at the age of 16. A few years ago, after var…
Rights groups say amended criminal code underscores shift towards fundamentalismIndonesia’s parliament has overhauled the country’s criminal code to outlaw sex outside marriage and curtail free speech, in a dramatic setback to freedoms in the world’s t…
Diwali, one of the most popular Hindu festivals, is celebrated by devotees all over the world. Also known as the festival of lights, it symbolises the victory of good over evil and commemorates Lord Ram’s return to the Ayodhya kingdom after a 14-year e…
Covid accelerated a decline but a new breed of bathhouse is reimagining a Japanese traditionIt is a Japanese ritual that stretches back centuries: stripping off in the company of friends and neighbours before stretching out in the recuperative waters o…
Laisiasa Raibevu Davetawalu, who designs under the label Elaradi, carries the hope of his local fashion community, which fundraised to send him to design school in AustraliaThe hopes of Fiji’s fledgling fashion industry sit on the slim shoulders of a 2…
Alexander Blong smashed the previous world record for the most carriages in a Lego trainA New Zealand teenager has broken a Guinness World Record for the most carriages in a Lego toy train, beating the previous record by 32 carriages, after he was insp…
As a journalist in a conflict zone I was used to covering deaths. But then a young insurgent who had laid down his weapons and become a friend was killedI first met Korsa Joga in March 2013 – a chance encounter in the intelligence department of the Chh…
A maternity clothes maker in Tokyo is marketing portable fans to help dogs and cats cope with oppressive summer weatherDog owners in Japan can now buy wearable fans to keep their pets cool during the country’s sweltering summer.Comprising a battery-ope…