Family, relationships, festivals and everyday life for Indians and Indian Americans, from fashion and weddings to parenting and work.
476 articles
Happy couples gain weight, singles stay slim: a Heidelberg study of 2,000 people linked relationship happiness to body weight — and a crisis can trigger a diet.
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Post-2008, American homes are getting more practical: drop zones replace grand foyers, open family rooms replace formal rooms — and the McMansion is out.
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A reader meets Maneka Gandhi at a People for Animals launch and finds her hour-long talk impressive. A brief 2011 snapshot.
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Psychology studies link a taste for sweet foods with agreeableness and helpfulness — embodied cognition ties the sensation of sweetness to sweet behavior.
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In October 2011, Western governments issued travel advisories for India — and New Delhi pushed back hard. Why S.M. Krishna called the language disproportionate.
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In Japan, the yaeba trend has women paying dentists hundreds of dollars to glue on crooked, fang-like canines — a deliberate imperfection seen as cute and
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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.
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Walking or cycling to work is linked to substantially lower obesity risk — because it's exercise built into a routine you already do every day.
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Whiskey was never actually a men's drink — it just had a men's marketing budget. On women claiming their pour, neat or on the rocks.
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I went to the doctor because I had a fever, I made a mistake and punched Justin Beiber
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What research actually says about raising a smart toddler: talk more, read aloud, play unstructured — and be skeptical of educational apps.
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What actually separates extraordinary people from the rest? Not talent — purpose, discipline, resilience, and the habit of finishing what they start.
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Why do some people learn faster? Growth mindset, prior knowledge, deliberate practice, sleep and metacognition — what the learning research actually says.
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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.
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Psychologists found that for complex decisions, people who slept on it chose better than deliberators — the 'deliberation-without-attention' effect.
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In 2011, Additional Solicitor General Darius Khambata's legal opinion forced the Mumbai passport office to concede: a divorced woman may keep her married name.
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A reported $1.4 million bill for one undocumented patient's care reopened debate over emergency treatment, uncompensated care, and 'medical deportations.'
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A 2011 UK survey found four in ten working mothers had sent a sick child to school, unable to take time off — though a vitamin brand commissioned the poll.
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After a student's 2011 suicide at IIM Bangalore, hard questions were raised about pressure, relationships, and support at India's elite institutions.
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SAT reading and writing scores were falling in 2011. But for students taking the test, one question mattered more: what actually raises your score?
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