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Time of India
2 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
Maintaining and improving heart health with Divya Cardiogrit Gold
Heart health is an important part of overall well-being. A healthy heart supports proper blood circulation, delivers oxygen and nutrients to tissues, and helps maintain energy and stamina. In today's fast-paced world, lifestyle factors such as poor diet, stress, and lack of exercise can increase the risk of heart problems. Alongside medical treatments and healthy lifestyle changes, many people look for supplementary options to support their cardiovascular health. One such product in the area of Ayurvedic medicine is Divya Cardiogrit Gold, a formulation designed to aid heart function and promote overall cardiovascular wellness. What is Divya Cardiogrit Gold? Divya Cardiogrit Gold is an ayurvedic medicine manufactured by Divya Pharmacy, a company known for their excellent herbal and traditional remedies. It comes in tablet form and combines several herbs and minerals that have been traditionally used in Ayurveda to support heart health. The formula is based on the principles of Ayurveda, which emphasizes balance in the body through natural ingredients. The key ingredients in Cardiogrit Gold include Terminalia arjuna (commonly called Arjuna), Yogendra Ras, and various mineral-based components such as Akik Pishti, Sangeyasav Pishti, Jaharmohra Pishti, and Moti Pishti. Each of these components has a long history of use in traditional medicine systems for its potential benefits in cardiovascular care. Ingredients and their traditional roles All of these Ayurvedic components are known for their role in supporting heart function, and are believed to strengthen heart muscles, improve circulation, and help maintain blood pressure levels within a healthy range. Research on Arjuna suggests it may have antioxidant properties and promote cardiovascular endurance. Plus, they help balance the doshas (body energies) and maintain normal heart rhythm. Combined, these ingredients are said to have cooling and strengthening effects on the heart and can help reduce symptoms such as palpitations and fatigue. Potential benefits of Cardiogrit Gold Divya Cardiogrit Gold is primarily aimed at supporting cardiovascular function. It helps in supporting heart muscle strength and better heart function. It also helps balance cardiovascular health, and is believed to help in improved blood flow and circulation. How to use Cardiogrit Gold The typical recommended dosage is two tablets twice daily before meals with lukewarm water. It is important to follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer or a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner. As with any supplement or medicine, users should avoid self-medicating without proper consultation. Precautions and considerations While Divya Cardiogrit Gold is made from natural ingredients and follows traditional Ayurvedic preparation methods, it is important to approach its use with caution and awareness. Make sure to consult a healthcare professional and an Ayurveda expert beforhand, especially if you have existing medical conditions, like heart-related disorders, or are already taking prescribed medications. Also make sure to do some lifestyle changes, such as eating a balanced diet, engaging in regular physical activity, managing stress, avoiding tobacco and excessive alcohol, to reap the best benefits. One step to a healthier you—join Times Health+ Yoga and feel the change
Indian Express
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Raajneeti turns 15: Prakash Jha says Katrina Kaif learnt her speech for 40 days, Anjum Rajabali had his doubts about Ranbir Kapoor
Aamir Khan may be planning to make a film series on the Mahabharata and then hang up his boots. But filmmaker Prakash Jha and screenwriter Anjum Rajabali did that 15 years ago. Their 2010 political drama Raajneeti was a modern adaptation of the epic, yet they maintain it never started off as that. 'Unlike Gangaajal (2003) or Apaharan (2004), Raajneeti didn't happen after witnessing a specific incident. It was a broader socio-political drama based on reality, but resonating with the Mahabharata. The characters are all the same everywhere, as they were back in the epic,' Prakash Jha tells SCREEN. 'There's something for everybody — drama, crisis, highs, lows — everything you can think of about human existence, it's all there capsuled in the Mahabharata. So every Indian creator keeps drawing from it,' he adds. 'We didn't start out by wanting to adapt the Mahabharata. We just allowed it to enter our script. It's a sprawling epic. But you're not writing an epic, you're writing a screenplay,' Rajabali points out. After serving as a script consultant on Jha's last two films, he was approached by the director to co-write a film on electoral politics. 'I wasn't interested in that,' recalls Rajabali. But he proposed to Jha that the filmmaker visits him every evening from 7:30 pm to 10 pm. They'd brainstorm over 'two shots of vodka' for seven days, in the middle of which Rajabali recalled they began veering towards the Mahabharata. The idea of power conflict and cousins competing with other brought them closer to the broad strokes of the epic. But Rajabali was dead sure he didn't want Karna to be the hero, much to the surprise of Jha. 'Karna has the usual characteristics of a hero: he's the underdog who comes up fighting against injustice. But I told Prakash you must not look at only as destiny, but also in terms of the choices he made. He wholeheartedly went with Duryodhana, knowing fully well he's an evil guy. That lends the story a dystopian end — who do we side with, because they're all evil,' reasons Rajabali. Enter: Arjuna. 'Prakash said Arjuna is a boring character, who's a good family member and a good warrior. But I brought his attention to Arjuna's arc — he doesn't want to enter the war, but Krishna gives him the perspective on why he should fight for a cause. Then their dark deeds begin to surface. So I asked Prakash, 'What if Arjuna begins to revel in that?' Because he's suddenly a demon who has been unleashed,' says Rajabali. The Arjuna of Raajneeti — Samar Pratap Singh — is the proverbial outsider. The youngest son who comes back from his school abroad for a few days, only to get caged in the politics of his family and that of the state. 'His father is killed, brother is jailed, so he has to enter politics out of anger. Then the guy who's researching Victorian poetry begins to do one dark deed after another. If you notice, even the topic of his research has to do with violence in the 18th century. So there's a fascination with violence, which was already coming out via academics,' underlines Rajabali. He recalls the time when he got a call from Jha who said they've found their Arjuna: Ranbir Kapoor. 'Who, Rishi Kapoor's son? That's how I knew of him,' says Rajabali, reminding us that Ranbir's debut film, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya (2007), hadn't released then. 'Have you seen it? Can he perform?' 'I haven't, but my instinct says he can.' 'I trusted his instincts, but I had my doubts,' reveals Rajabali. A few days after Jha began filming in Bhopal, Rajabali visited the set. Jha showed him the scene in which Ranbir is just sitting on a chair and looking at the television news of his father's death and brother's arrest. The camera goes from right to left on his face. 'That boy was speaking volumes with his silence. There was no prep. He's an intuitive actor, a complete natural. I was completely convinced. Ranbir had very few lines, but boy, did he leave an impact! He's the best actor we've had in more than a decade now,' says Rajabali. If Ranbir was a revelation, Katrina Kaif wasn't far behind. 'We couldn't pick Draupadi's angle as it is because the fight between husbands for her and all that jazz doesn't quite work today. But it stayed with me after reading the epic that Draupadi loved Arjuna, but he was too focused on ambition. So there was an unrequited love,' recalls Rajabali, who again was concerned if Kaif would be able to pull off the Hindi heartland dialogues with the right accent. 'Once again, Prakash was convinced she'd deliver,' he adds. 'Katrina is a very hardworking actor. She worked with so much dedication. She learnt her lines for 30-40 days so she could deliver them confidently,' Jha recalls. Rajabali did find issues with her accent during the filming, but changed his mind during the dubbing sessions. 'The amount of effort that the girl put in… she managed to deliver word to word in near-perfect diction,' says Rajabali. It's been 15 years, the party in power has changed, so it makes sense for us to pose the question to Rajabali: Was Katrina Kaif's character inspired by Sonia Gandhi? He refuses, but sees the parallels. 'There are various archetypal characters in life and in good literature and cinema. Rajiv Gandhi was the proverbial outsider. He didn't want to join politics. But then he did, and he won. Then he gets killed. There's a widow. Katrina looks half white. I wasn't concerned, but I anticipated such allegations,' says Rajabali. He then reveals that as the Congress party got concerned closer to the film's release, they inserted their representative in the Central Board of Film Certification. 'This was an open secret. There was no contention with the film though, except one word. When two people at a chai shop are discussing election results, a laconic man, buried in the newspaper, says, 'Le jaegi vidhwa sab samet kar.' They objected to 'vidhwa' because that might be confused with Sonia Gandhi. I didn't agree with it, but Prakash said we'd have to remove it. So the word was changed to 'bitiya,'' says Rajabali. Other changes in translating the Mahabharata to the world of Raajneeti included eliminating Nakul and Sahadeva because they're quite similar, and choosing Arjun Rampal's character Prithvi as Bhima over Yudhishthira. 'Prakash recommended we take Bhima because there's an innocence to him. He loves his family. He's loud and uncouth, but there's an endearing quality to him too. He's gullible so can get tricked very soon, so you need to protect him,' says Rajabali. Another change was to make their Krishna far more quieter than he's in the epic. In fact, Nana Patekar is the only actor in the ensemble who doesn't get a monologue. Even Naseeruddin Shah does, within a cameo. 'He doesn't pick up any weapons, but only operates on plotting. So that's how I asked Nana Patekar to be in his body language,' says Jha. 'He's a thinking person, a strategist. He'd just process everything and come up with just one line that Samar catches up on. He's the man to watch out for. He forces you to pay attention to him precisely because he doesn't speak much. So you always wonder what he's up to,' argues Rajabali. He quotes the example of the scene in which Patekar's character comes up with the perfect candidate to compete with Surya (Ajay Devgn's character based on Karna). 'It's obvious he's the natural choice to win in a Dalit constituency. Nana Patekar doesn't say anything, but he just goes there and announces their candidate as Surya's father. That's a masterstroke,' points out Rajabali. Jha recently admitted that he has the story for the sequel ready. 'I have an idea with me. But we just haven't gotten to it yet because other commitments keep coming up,' says the filmmaker, who's been busy with his MXPlayer show Aashram, his next film Janadhish, and other projects as a producer. 'It can be quite rich because it can reflect today's challenges for politicians. The Mahabharata is infinite so there is a lot of potential,' argues Rajabali. Jha points out that most characters from the first part, including those of Devgn, Manoj Bajpayee, and Arjun Rampal, are dead. So would the sequel continue where we left the other characters? Also Read — Dune director Denis Villenueve was impressed by Ranbir Kapoor after watching Raajneeti on a plane: 'He stood out among such an ensemble' 'It may start from there or once we work on it, it may be something completely new,' says Jha, with a shrug. But where would Samar, Indu, and Mama be today? Or what would their Arjuna, Draupadi, and Krishna up to to now? 'I can't possibly answer that because I may give you the idea Prakash and I just end up doing. So I have to be a little discrete about it,' says Rajabali, in true Krishna fashion.
Indian Express
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Raajneeti turns 10: Prakash Jha says Katrina Kaif learnt her speech for 40 days, Anjum Rajabali had his doubts about Ranbir Kapoor
Aamir Khan may be planning to make a film series on the Mahabharata and then hang up his boots. But filmmaker Prakash Jha and screenwriter Anjum Rajabali did that 15 years ago. Their 2010 political drama Raajneeti was a modern adaptation of the epic, yet they maintain it never started off as that. 'Unlike Gangaajal (2003) or Apaharan (2004), Raajneeti didn't happen after witnessing a specific incident. It was a broader socio-political drama based on reality, but resonating with the Mahabharata. The characters are all the same everywhere, as they were back in the epic,' Prakash Jha tells SCREEN. 'There's something for everybody — drama, crisis, highs, lows — everything you can think of about human existence, it's all there capsuled in the Mahabharata. So every Indian creator keeps drawing from it,' he adds. 'We didn't start out by wanting to adapt the Mahabharata. We just allowed it to enter our script. It's a sprawling epic. But you're not writing an epic, you're writing a screenplay,' Rajabali points out. After serving as a script consultant on Jha's last two films, he was approached by the director to co-write a film on electoral politics. 'I wasn't interested in that,' recalls Rajabali. But he proposed to Jha that the filmmaker visits him every evening from 7:30 pm to 10 pm. They'd brainstorm over 'two shots of vodka' for seven days, in the middle of which Rajabali recalled they began veering towards the Mahabharata. The idea of power conflict and cousins competing with other brought them closer to the broad strokes of the epic. But Rajabali was dead sure he didn't want Karna to be the hero, much to the surprise of Jha. 'Karna has the usual characteristics of a hero: he's the underdog who comes up fighting against injustice. But I told Prakash you must not look at only as destiny, but also in terms of the choices he made. He wholeheartedly went with Duryodhana, knowing fully well he's an evil guy. That lends the story a dystopian end — who do we side with, because they're all evil,' reasons Rajabali. Enter: Arjuna. 'Prakash said Arjuna is a boring character, who's a good family member and a good warrior. But I brought his attention to Arjuna's arc — he doesn't want to enter the war, but Krishna gives him the perspective on why he should fight for a cause. Then their dark deeds begin to surface. So I asked Prakash, 'What if Arjuna begins to revel in that?' Because he's suddenly a demon who has been unleashed,' says Rajabali. The Arjuna of Raajneeti — Samar Pratap Singh — is the proverbial outsider. The youngest son who comes back from his school abroad for a few days, only to get caged in the politics of his family and that of the state. 'His father is killed, brother is jailed, so he has to enter politics out of anger. Then the guy who's researching Victorian poetry begins to do one dark deed after another. If you notice, even the topic of his research has to do with violence in the 18th century. So there's a fascination with violence, which was already coming out via academics,' underlines Rajabali. He recalls the time when he got a call from Jha who said they've found their Arjuna: Ranbir Kapoor. 'Who, Rishi Kapoor's son? That's how I knew of him,' says Rajabali, reminding us that Ranbir's debut film, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya (2007), hadn't released then. 'Have you seen it? Can he perform?' 'I haven't, but my instinct says he can.' 'I trusted his instincts, but I had my doubts,' reveals Rajabali. A few days after Jha began filming in Bhopal, Rajabali visited the set. Jha showed him the scene in which Ranbir is just sitting on a chair and looking at the television news of his father's death and brother's arrest. The camera goes from right to left on his face. 'That boy was speaking volumes with his silence. There was no prep. He's an intuitive actor, a complete natural. I was completely convinced. Ranbir had very few lines, but boy, did he leave an impact! He's the best actor we've had in more than a decade now,' says Rajabali. If Ranbir was a revelation, Katrina Kaif wasn't far behind. 'We couldn't pick Draupadi's angle as it is because the fight between husbands for her and all that jazz doesn't quite work today. But it stayed with me after reading the epic that Draupadi loved Arjuna, but he was too focused on ambition. So there was an unrequited love,' recalls Rajabali, who again was concerned if Kaif would be able to pull off the Hindi heartland dialogues with the right accent. 'Once again, Prakash was convinced she'd deliver,' he adds. 'Katrina is a very hardworking actor. She worked with so much dedication. She learnt her lines for 30-40 days so she could deliver them confidently,' Jha recalls. Rajabali did find issues with her accent during the filming, but changed his mind during the dubbing sessions. 'The amount of effort that the girl put in… she managed to deliver word to word in near-perfect diction,' says Rajabali. It's been 15 years, the party in power has changed, so it makes sense for us to pose the question to Rajabali: Was Katrina Kaif's character inspired by Sonia Gandhi? He refuses, but sees the parallels. 'There are various archetypal characters in life and in good literature and cinema. Rajiv Gandhi was the proverbial outsider. He didn't want to join politics. But then he did, and he won. Then he gets killed. There's a widow. Katrina looks half white. I wasn't concerned, but I anticipated such allegations,' says Rajabali. He then reveals that as the Congress party got concerned closer to the film's release, they inserted their representative in the Central Board of Film Certification. 'This was an open secret. There was no contention with the film though, except one word. When two people at a chai shop are discussing election results, a laconic man, buried in the newspaper, says, 'Le jaegi vidhwa sab samet kar.' They objected to 'vidhwa' because that might be confused with Sonia Gandhi. I didn't agree with it, but Prakash said we'd have to remove it. So the word was changed to 'bitiya,'' says Rajabali. Other changes in translating the Mahabharata to the world of Raajneeti included eliminating Nakul and Sahadeva because they're quite similar, and choosing Arjun Kapoor's character Prithvi as Bhima over Yudhishthira. 'Prakash recommended we take Bhima because there's an innocence to him. He loves his family. He's loud and uncouth, but there's an endearing quality to him too. He's gullible so can get tricked very soon, so you need to protect him,' says Rajabali. Another change was to make their Krishna far more quieter than he's in the epic. In fact, Nana Patekar is the only actor in the ensemble who doesn't get a monologue. Even Naseeruddin Shah does, within a cameo. 'He doesn't pick up any weapons, but only operates on plotting. So that's how I asked Nana Patekar to be in his body language,' says Jha. 'He's a thinking person, a strategist. He'd just process everything and come up with just one line that Samar catches up on. He's the man to watch out for. He forces you to pay attention to him precisely because he doesn't speak much. So you always wonder what he's up to,' argues Rajabali. He quotes the example of the scene in which Patekar's character comes up with the perfect candidate to compete with Surya (Ajay Devgn's character based on Karna). 'It's obvious he's the natural choice to win in a Dalit constituency. Nana Patekar doesn't say anything, but he just goes there and announces their candidate as Surya's father. That's a masterstroke,' points out Rajabali. Jha recently admitted that he has the story for the sequel ready. 'I have an idea with me. But we just haven't gotten to it yet because other commitments keep coming up,' says the filmmaker, who's been busy with his MXPlayer show Aashram, his next film Janadhish, and other projects as a producer. 'It can be quite rich because it can reflect today's challenges for politicians. The Mahabharata is infinite so there is a lot of potential,' argues Rajabali. Jha points out that most characters from the first part, including those of Devgn, Manoj Bajpayee, and Arjun Rampal, are dead. So would the sequel continue where we left the other characters? Also Read — Dune director Denis Villenueve was impressed by Ranbir Kapoor after watching Raajneeti on a plane: 'He stood out among such an ensemble' 'It may start from there or once we work on it, it may be something completely new,' says Jha, with a shrug. But where would Samar, Indu, and Mama be today? Or what would their Arjuna, Draupadi, and Krishna up to to now? 'I can't possibly answer that because I may give you the idea Prakash and I just end up doing. So I have to be a little discrete about it,' says Rajabali, in true Krishna fashion.
India Gazette
23-05-2025
- Sport
- India Gazette
ISSF Junior World Cup 2025: India shooter Adriyan Karmakar secures bronze in men's 50m rifle 3 positions event
Suhl [Germany], May 23 (ANI): Indian shooter Adriyan Karmakar continued his sublime form at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2025 and bagged a bronze medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event on Friday in Suhl, Germany. The 20-year-old Indian shooter clinched his second medal of the Suhl meet. He had previously won silver in the 50m rifle prone event with a junior national record. Adriyan Karmakar scored 446.6 points in the medal round to finish behind French Olympian Romain Aufrere (459.7) and Norway's Jens Oestli (459.1). Adriyan is the son of Olympian and Arjuna awardee Joydeep Karmakar, who finished in the fourth spot in the men's 50m rifle prone event at the London 2012 Olympics and missed the medal by a whisker. Apart from his recent heroics, Adriyan is also the Khelo India Youth Games champion in the prone event and the junior national champion in the 50m rifle 3P. In the qualifying round, Adriyan secured fourth place with a score of 588 points, while Aufrere Romain topped the round with a staggering score of 590. Meanwhile, India's Nitin Waghmare (579 points), Manvendra Singh Shekhawat (570) and Harshvardhan Singh (569) failed to make the top eight. Earlier in the tournament, India's skeet shooter Raiza Dhillon bagged a silver medal in the ISSF Junior World Cup 2025. The 21-year-old Indian shooter, who won a silver medal at the Asian Championships last year, landed 51 of her possible 60 shots in the final to finish behind Great Britain's Phoebe Bodley-Scott, who scored 53 on Thursday. This was Bodley-Scott's second junior ISSF World Cup gold medal after winning the same event at the same venue three years ago. Annabella Hettmer of Germany clinched bronze with 38. Dhillon had made the cut for the six-woman medal round by finishing second in the qualifying round with a score of 116. (ANI)
India Today
21-05-2025
- General
- India Today
Feeling low? These Bhagavad Gita quotes will motivate you again
Modern life is fast, stress-provoking, and full of confusion and negativity. Whether you are a student dealing with exams, a worker dealing with pressure, or even just someone who feels low, staying positive can be difficult. The truth is, oftentimes our modern problems can be solved by old wisdom!One of the oldest sources of wisdom is the Bhagavad Gita, which is the sacred conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna that occurred on the battlefield of Kurukshetra over 5,000 years ago. The Gita is not just a religious text, but rather a manual for living. Most of the teachings in this text about karma (action), duty, self-control, and inner peace are relevant to humanity even now. Feeling low? These Bhagavad Gita quotes will motivate you again Here are 10 quotes from the Bhagavad Gita that can help you focus on what's good, keep your mind on your actions, and give you a greater sense of peace and "You have the right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.' Explanation: Focus on your work, not on the results. This reduces stress and brings peace.2. Be steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and abandon attachment to success or failure.'Explanation: Stay balanced and calm, regardless of outcomes.3. Elevate yourself through your mind, not degrade yourself. The mind can be your friend and your enemy.'Explanation: Your mind shapes your experience, but this exact quote is not from the Gita.4. 'As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so the disciplined mind of a yogi remains steady in meditation.'Explanation: Meditation brings steadiness and peace.5. 'A person is what their faith is; as their faith, so are they.'advertisementExplanation: Your beliefs shape your character.6. 'Neither here nor hereafter is there destruction for one who does good; my dear friend, no one who does good ever comes to a bad end.'Explanation: Good deeds are never wasted.7. 'In this path, no effort is lost, and no obstacle exists; even a little progress protects one from great fear.'Explanation: Every step in spiritual practice counts.8.'Serenity, self-restraint, silence, purity of mind—these are the austerities of the mind.'Explanation: True wisdom is shown in calmness and self-control.9.'One who is free from attachment, not egoistic, and equal in pleasure and pain, and forgiving—such a devotee is dear to me.'Explanation: Detachment leads to pure love.10. 'Nothing in this world is permanent; change is the law of nature.'Explanation: Everything is temporary; accept change as a part of Bhagavad Gita isn't a holy book only; the Gita is a daily source of inspiration. Through its teachings we learn to act with integrity, remain steadfast in difficult times, and release negative thoughts. In a world filled with uncertainty, the Gita brings clarity, comfort, and courage. So read it, ponder it, approve it into your life, and let it lead you towards a more optimistic Watch
