The humble armpit is the new playground for fancy cosmetic procedures. And the onset of summer has only doubled the demand, experts tell Anuradha Varma. Last fortnight, a British tabloid clapped approvingly as Hollywood star Tom Cruise’s wife, Katie Holmes, was photographed wrinkling her forehead as she stepped out of an LA restaurant, squinting in […]

Gauri-Nainika outfit for Kidology  After Internet users unleashed a venomous attack against a US-based fashion magazine staffer, who wrote about the diet she put her 7-year-old daughter on, Anuradha Varma finds out how comfortable Indian mothers are when handling overweight kids. Although 36-year-old New Delhi resident and homemaker Shalini Kalla Bansal is busy most mornings, […]

Two leading ladies of the vegan movement exhort us to value life, not destroy it! Actress and animal rights activist Amala makes her own vegan desserts and believes in beauty without cruelty I turned vegan one-and-a-half years ago. It was during an inspection of slaughterhouses that I realised how animals were treated. Cows that should […]

As queues lengthen, patients are forced to battle a doctor’s lowered attention span, says Anuradha Varma When one patient called an orthopedic surgeon at a multi-speciality hospital to complain of muscle spasms, he asked her to stop painkillers and meet him five days later! Another patient, admitted to hospital, remembers a doctor entering her room […]

Even as the UK Parliament refuses to serve halal meat at restaurants on its premises, fresh scientific opinion suggests halal is the better option. TOI investigates. Kounteya Sinha, Amit Bhattacharya & Anuradha VarmaKounteya Sinha, Amit Bhattacharya & Anuradha Varma, TNN  For Mohammad Salim, owner of a tiny meat shop in the Gurdwara Road Market of New […]

Anuradha Varma, TNN, Mar 16, 2011 Teen obesity, lack of exercise and unhealthy lifestyles are pushing us towards heart diseases earlier than ever before. It’s no longer uncommon to hear of someone in their 30s or 40s succumb to a heart attack as they push themselves ahead on the corporate ladder.About 35 to 50 per […]