Lifestyle

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novels map the interior lives of Indian and immigrant women — and much of their power lies in what her characters leave unsaid.

A Bombay High Court judge's 'be like Sita' remark to a wife in 2012 sparked a debate about mythology, marital endurance, and what courts owe women seeking

By 2012 up to 90% of young adults in East Asia were nearsighted; researchers blamed the indoor life and prescribed a fix: a couple of hours of sunlight daily.

Child predators rarely act through sudden approaches — they groom. The warning signs experts highlight, and why awareness beats fear.

Family-based behavioral programs — not diets, drugs, or surgery — are the evidence-backed first line for childhood obesity. What they involve.

Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.

Sachin Tendulkar's 100th international century (March 2012) and his 39th birthday — a look at the milestone that defined an era of Indian cricket.

The beauty industry sells empowerment in a tube — but the daily ritual of makeup, products, and perfection has a price. An essay on the pressure.

Salecia Johnson, 6, was handcuffed by Milledgeville police at her elementary school in April 2012 — igniting a national debate on discipline of young children.

Studies once found cohabitation predicted divorce — the 'cohabitation effect'. The real mechanisms: sliding vs deciding, selection, and age.

An Ohio State study found preschoolers whose teachers pointed out letters and words during storybook reading read better one and two years later.

A 2012 Thai trial found curcumin reduced heart attacks after bypass surgery — a real, small, unreplicated study. What it means and what it absolutely doesn't.

In a 2012 Science study, six Guinea baboons learned to distinguish correctly spelled four-letter words from nonwords — no speech required.

ABC News reported on the K-E diet in April 2012: brides-to-be wore nasal feeding tubes for 10 days, fed 800 calories a day, to lose 10-20 pounds.

Sharon Mathai, a Queens-born Malayali on The Voice season 2, charmed three coaches with Adele's 'Rumor Has It' — and chose Team Adam Levine.

Declared stillborn in Chaco, Argentina, a premature baby was found alive in her coffin 12 hours later. Her mother named her Luz Milagros — Miracle Light.

A 2012 study found moderate drinkers solved creative word puzzles faster than sober controls — a narrow effect on divergent thinking, not advice.

Exeter researchers built a 3D printer that extrudes molten chocolate layer by layer — mass-personalized confectionery, before 3D printing went mainstream.

Bubba Watson beat Louis Oosthuizen in a 2012 Masters playoff with an impossible hooked wedge from the pine straw on the 10th — golf's most famous recovery shot.

Skip the fad diets: the fundamentals of everyday nutrition — whole foods, hydration, protein, sleep — work for life and for training alike.