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Pearls & Petals, a day spa in Ahmedabad, rides India's Ayurvedic spa wave — rose, turmeric, sandalwood and saffron, the kitchen apothecary turned into ritual.

Lunch decides your afternoon. Six healthy lunch formulas — Indian and global — built on protein, fiber, and vegetables, each ready in 20 minutes or less.

NSW Fair Trading hunted the operators of Yourformal and Yourafterparty after at least 15 Sydney schools lost six-figure sums paid in cash for formals that

Andreas Gursky's Rhein II sold for $4,338,500 at Christie's in November 2011 — the most expensive photograph ever auctioned.

Retro Reel Volume 4: the golden-age Hollywood musical — the genre that made joy look effortless and was secretly the hardest thing MGM ever did.

Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child sex-abuse charges in 2011; he was convicted on 45 counts and sentenced to 30-60 years in 2012.

A casual family dinner in the US with Ehsaan Noorani of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy — jingles vs film songs, the Dus days, and advice for young musicians. Video inside.

A reader meets Maneka Gandhi at a People for Animals launch and finds her hour-long talk impressive. A brief 2011 snapshot.

In October 2011, Western governments issued travel advisories for India — and New Delhi pushed back hard. Why S.M. Krishna called the language disproportionate.

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (1922-2011), the Bharat Ratna vocalist of the Kirana gharana, ran away at 11 to find his guru. A tribute to his life and music.

Curcumin, turmeric's active compound, matched ibuprofen for knee osteoarthritis pain in some trials. What the research really says — plus the dose and

A 2011 guest column on cyber-revenge: when anger meets the internet, the whole world becomes your audience — and the author offers her calming mantras.

Retro Reel Volume 3: why the golden-age Hollywood classics keep pulling us back — the craft, the faces, and the slower light.

From authority to irony and back: the long, strange fashion cycle of the mustache — why it fell out of style in the 1990s and how it crept back.

A poem by Shlok Sharma, then a fifth-grader in Naperville, on the mistakes he made — from punching Justin Bieber to falling into a tributary. Childhood humor.

A tribute to ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh, who died on October 10, 2011 — the voice that brought the ghazal out of the drawing room and into everyone's home.

An Iowa store owner ran a $10 contest for guessing which cashier would be fired next — and an unemployment judge called it 'egregious and deplorable.'

Why do some people learn faster? Growth mindset, prior knowledge, deliberate practice, sleep and metacognition — what the learning research actually says.

Hit a fitness plateau? Progressive overload, cross-training, and real recovery — not more of the same — are what restart progress and redefine exercise.

In 2011, Ohio mother Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of felonies for enrolling her daughters in a better school district — one of several such cases.