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The Hindu
3 days ago
- Health
- The Hindu
NIMHANS signs MoU to establish a research centre
NIMHANS has tied up with the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy (CCRYN) under the Union Ministry of AYUSH to establish a Collaborative Research Centre for Mind Body Interventions through Yoga (CCMBIY). The five-year partnership is aimed at bridging traditional Indian healing systems with modern medical science, focusing on evidence-based research in yoga, naturopathy, and their integration into mainstream healthcare. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by CCRYN director Raghavendra Rao and NIMHANS director Pratima Murthy. According to a press release from NIMHANS, Hemant Bhargav, Associate Professor of Integrative Medicine at NIMHANS, will serve as the Principal Investigator for the collaborative centre. The research team will comprise doctors - Kishore Kumar R., Nishitha Jasti, Bharath Holla, and Shivakumar from NIMHANS, and Vadiraja and Inbaraj from CCRYN, bringing together expertise from both institutions in this collaborative effort to advance the science of mind-body medicine, the release said. Under this collaboration, the institutions will jointly conduct research projects examining the efficacy of mind-body interventions for conditions including mental health disorders, metabolic disorders and neurological conditions. The initiative will also focus on training healthcare professionals and developing standardised protocols for integrative treatment approaches, the release added.
UAE Moments
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UAE Moments
♈ Aries Daily Horoscope for July 17, 2025
You're blazing through the day like a rocket — but even rockets need direction. Today's energy has you fired up with ideas and eager to take charge, but rushing in without a plan could cause friction. Think before leaping and you'll come out a winner. 💼 Career You're in full hustle mode, but impulsive decisions could backfire. Use that drive to wrap up lingering tasks or pitch bold ideas — just double-check the details. A teammate may surprise you with valuable insight, so listen up. ❤️ Love Your confidence is magnetic, Aries! If you're single, flirt without overthinking. If you're in a relationship, avoid being too controlling — your partner wants to be heard just as much as you do. Compromise is sexy today. 🧘♀️ Body That adrenaline rush? Channel it into movement. A quick HIIT session, kickboxing, or even a walk with upbeat music will help you stay grounded. Stay hydrated — your fiery nature needs cooling support today. 🧠 Mental Health Mentally, you're revved up, but your fuse might be a bit short. Take deep breaths, pause before reacting, and try journaling or voice-noting your thoughts to clear mental clutter. 🌟 Pro Tip
Herald Malaysia
13-07-2025
- General
- Herald Malaysia
Pope Leo XIV: Embrace 'marvelous adventure' of following Christ more closely
Pope Leo XIV invites members of several religious congregations holding their General Chapters to take part in the "marvelous adventure" of following Christ more closely. Jul 13, 2025 Pope Leo XIV receives participants in General Chapters of several religious institutes at Castel Gandolfo (@Vatican Media) By Deborah Castellano Lubov Embrace the marvelous adventure of following Christ more closely. Pope Leo XIV gave this exhortation to religious men and women on Saturday morning in Castel Gandolfo, where he is staying for his summer vacation. While Popes generally hold few encounters during their stay in the lakeside town southeast of Rome, the Holy Father welcomed participants in the General Chapters of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (P.I.M.E.); Religious Teachers Filippini; Religious Teachers Venerini; Daughters of the Church; Salesian Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart; and Franciscan Sisters of St. Angela (Angeline Franciscans). The Holy Father began by thanking them for their work and "faithful presence" in so many parts of the world, noting their Founders and Foundresses, "docile to the action of the Holy Spirit, have left you a variety of charisms for the building up of the Body of Christ." Love of God for humanity The Pope observed that their respective Institutes "embody complementary aspects of the life and mission of the entire people of God," naming in particular "the offering of self in union with Christ's Sacrifice, the ad gentes mission, love for the Church preserved and handed on, and the education and formation of young people." These, he said, are different paths all animated by the one eternal reality, namely, "God's love for humanity." "As is customary," the Pope recognized that each of their Congregations has identified particular perspectives through which to reread the legacy received, in order to renew and make its content relevant for today," and he invited them to do this with deep prayer and mutual listening." Benedict XVI's reminder The Holy Spirit, Pope Leo said, quoting Benedict XVI, recalled that it is the Spirit who, "through the contribution of many under the guidance of the Pastors, 'helps the Christian community to walk in charity toward the full truth.'" In this context, the Pope underscored the importance of renewing an authentic missionary spirit, adopting the sentiments 'that were in Christ Jesus,' rooting their hope in God, keeping alive in their hearts the flame of the Spirit, promoting peace, and fostering pastoral co-responsibility within local Churches. Marvelous adventure of following Christ more closely "To place these side by side and recall them together at this moment," Pope Leo marveled, "helps us to appreciate the richness of our being a community—especially as religious—engaged in the same marvelous adventure of 'following Christ more closely.'' "May this renew and strengthen in all of us the awareness and joy of being Church," the Pope said, expressing his hope that this in particular encourage them, in their Chapter discernment, "to think boldly as unique pieces of a design that transcends and involves you beyond your own expectations." God's plan of salvation That design, Pope Leo XIV noted, is "the plan of salvation" by which God desires to bring all humanity back to Himself, as one great family. Like small lights, he urged them to help the light of Christ, "which never fades," spread throughout the earth. Before imparting his Apostolic Blessing, Pope Leo XIV invited those present to join him "in asking the Lord together to make us docile to the voice of His Spirit, who 'teaches all things,' and without whose help—in our weakness—we do not even know how to pray as we ought.'"--Vatican News
Mint
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
An ongoing show looks at the many avatars of artist-poet Adil Jussawalla
On the cover of Missing Person by poet Adil Jussawalla, you see a man wearing a double breasted jacket and tie. His face seems to be a blur. The image portrays the fogged state of mind of the book's narrator—trapped as he is between incomprehensible modernity and redundant traditionalism. The cover was designed by poet Arun Kolatkar, who along with Jussawalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Gieve Patel founded a poets' cooperative, Clearing House, in Mumbai in 1976. Sometime later, poets Dilip Chitre, H.O. Nazareth and Jayanta Mahapatra too joined in. The cooperative published eight titles in its short lifetime, including Mehrotra's Nine Enclosures, Jussawalla's Missing Person, How Do you Withstand, Body and Jejuri by Kolatkar. Nazareth's Lobo published in 1984 was the imprint's last title. Covers for all the books were designed by Kolatkar, who insisted that not a single line in a poem be broken, thus resulting in the squarish format of the book. These covers, treasured for their imagery and design aesthetic, are now part of the show, Enlightenment from an Unlikely Envelope: Archives of Adil Jussawalla, curated by Deeptha Achar and Chithra KS, on view at The Guild, Alibaug, till 15 July. Through a range of material like manuscripts, letters, magazine articles, scrap books and family albums, we encounter Jussawalla in various avatars: as a photographer, an art writer, a publisher, a magazine editor, and a person fascinated with ships, picnics, Superman and Tarzan. The show is designed thematically in sections like Family, Visual Culture, Bombay, Ships, Cuffe Parade: Milieu, Life and Books. Born in a privileged Parsi family, Jussawalla was gifted a Kodak Baby Brownie by his aunt at the age of 13. The exhibition offers insights into major events such as these, including his early life in Mumbai with picnics to Elephanta caves and Sinhagad Fort, followed by a stint in London in the late 1950s and return to Mumbai in 1970. But more than anything the show documents the history of the Maximum City, thrumming with creative energy, a sense of community and rebellion. Clearing House was a product of this synergy. Also read: Artistic encounters: How animals inspire contemporary artists According to Achar, the setting up of the poets' cooperative ought to be viewed in context of the 'little magazine' movement and the establishment of small and independent presses of the 1960s-70s. Jussawalla's friends, including Kolatkar and Mehrotra, had rallied behind this underground experimental literary scene. In fact,Mehrotra's little magazine, damn you, stood against tired literary strictures. Even Vrischik, the little magazine helmed by artists Bhupen Khakhar and Gulammohammed Sheikh, was meant to sting. Other literary magazines like Bombay Duck, Dionysus, Blunt, Indian Writing Today, Tornado, Opinion Literary Quarterly, Fulcrum and Keynote were part of the zeitgeist. 'It is instructive to see how Jussawalla's works intersected with the poetic and artistic climate of the 1970s," says Achar. 'That was a time of new energy and when newer styles of modernism were getting consolidated. There were intersections between poetry and art, and many practiced both. It was also marked by a spirit of great generosity, with poets supporting one another. Adil's flat came to be a place where many writers converged." Milieu: Cuffe Parade features portraits of leading personalities from the literary and artistic world like Kolatkar, Mehrotra, Nissim Ezekiel, Vijay Nambisan, R. Raja Rao, Farrukh Dhondy and Jayanta Mahapatra. In one striking portrait Mehrotra looks at the viewer with a piercing gaze, and in another you encounter a disheveled Kolatkar. Dom Moraes had once compared Chitre and Kolatkar as young writers 'who look exactly like Rimbaud and Verlaine' because of their tramp-like appearance and itinerant lifestyle. A black-and-white photograph by Horace Ove of Jussawalla sitting in the iconic Wayside Inn, Rampart Row, is part of the archive as well, and reveals the intense and frayed charisma of the cafe as well as the shut, this iconic restaurant has also been immortalised by several of Kolatkar's poems including The Rat-Poison Man's Lunch Hour in which he imagines the cafe's walls recalling its various visitors, from Bal Thackeray sitting alone 'with a pot of tea and scribbling notes / dreaming with an audacious pencil/ of a society undivided by caste and creed" to an obscure poet 'munching on Welsh rabbit, and thinking of rats dying in a wet barrel". Also read: 'A Show of Hands': Celebrating the generous mentorship of artist Gieve Patel A concern for the subaltern—a defining aspect of this milieu—is evident from the Workers section. It comprises photographs of construction workers, or what Jussawalla calls 'the city's newest and worst paid plastic surgeons', who renovated his Cuffe parade-apartment in 1999-2000. In one poignant image that delineates sharp class differences, he juxtaposes the interior of his book-laden room with an image of a worker staring at a scaffolding in his balcony. While The Guild received most of the visual material from Jussawalla, his archive has further been divided among two other institutions, Ashoka University, India, and Cornell University, UK. During the digitisation process, gallerist Shalini Sawhney was quick to gauge the repository's historical import. 'What a rich and layered reflection it was of the times, his literary circles, and an intersection of personal and social histories," says Sawhney. 'Historical narratives should be consciously saved and recorded so that they do not slip through the cracks of time." In 2012 , poet Jerry Pinto was sitting in Jussawalla's house when he pointed to a blue Rexine bag that was lying on the floor. He was informed that it contained all the Clearing House correspondence. In the introduction to Jussawala's Maps to a Mortal Moon (2014), Pinto writes, 'Thus a single blue rexine bag would have a picture of Indian poetry's finest, talking, arguing, and challenging each other as they brought out books, several of which were to be major events in the nation's literary history. That was just one of the many boxes, files, collections of papers and magazines, notebooks, scrapbooks that fill Jussawalla's world with paper." Also read: Zarna Garg's memoir: The super-sad story of an immigrant comedian According to Achar, the poet never threw away even one piece of paper. Jussawalla's obsession for hoarding paper can be glimpsed in Pablo Bartholomew's photograph of his room, especially procured for this show, in which trunks, newspapers, books, stand cheek by jowl in packed shelves. 'Without archives we shall never know the hidden, submerged stories of the past," says co-curator Chithra K.S. ' An archive is an endless process—it is a portal that keeps on opening up new details, new paths and endless possibilities." Moreover the dissemination of archives in a gallery reconfigures the white cube and extends its scope. According to Achar, these repositories unsettle the gallery space, disrupt its emphasis on display for sale and establish new possibilities of narratives and contexts which, in more conventional exhibitions, may not come to view. 'For us as curators, the intersection between history and a life offered by the Adil Jussawalla archives provide the possibility of understanding a little about a time period, a city, and a lifetime." Shweta Upadhyay is an arts journalist and co-author of the photobook 'I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you'.
Scoop
30-06-2025
- General
- Scoop
What You Need To Know About Auckland's New Dog Rules
New regional dog rules have been adopted by Auckland Council, which includes how many dogs one person can walk at a time, and where. The changes, approved at last Thursday's Governing Body meeting, included updates on leash, off leash and dog free areas at nine regional parks, and a limit on the number of dogs that can be walked at once. Councillor Josephine Bartley said the review of Auckland's Dog Policy and Bylaw was needed so everyone could enjoy Auckland's shared spaces safely. "We know how much Aucklanders love getting out with their dogs, particularly in our beautiful regional parks," Bartley said. "Our dog rules aim to carefully accommodate these needs as well as those of others who also want to use shared outdoor spaces safely and freely." Qualified dog walkers will be allowed to walk up to 12 dogs at once, on or off-leash, as long as they kept under control. To walk up to 12 dogs, dog walkers must register with the council and follow the conditions attached to their registration. Other dog owners can walk a maximum of four dogs at once, with two off leash, as long as they are kept under control. "We have listened to public feedback and recognise, for example, that commercial dog walking is a growing industry with many walkers regularly using Auckland's public spaces." To support this to be done in a safe and responsible way, council was introducing a registration system, she said. "This will allow commercial dog walkers to walk a higher number of dogs, as long as they keep them under control and stick to the conditions, so we can all enjoy our public places." The limit of how many dogs can be walked at once will come into effect from 1 January, 2026. Changes at regional parks will come into effect from 1 August. On leash, off leash and dog-free areas have been updated in nine regional parks. They are - Auckland Botanic Gardens, Hunua Ranges Regional Park, Long Bay Regional Park, Mahurangi Regional Park, Pākiri Regional Park, Shakespear Regional Park, Tāpapakanga Regional Park, Waitawa Regional Park and Whakanewha Regional Park. Additional work is being done to finalise changes to dog rules at Te Ārai Regional Park. "Dogs are clearly an important part of our lives - by the end of 2024, more than 135,000 dogs were registered in Tāmaki Makaurau. "But our regional parks are also home to native species like the northern dotterel and critically endangered fairy tern, and unfortunately, dogs do pose a threat to these birds and their habitats." You can find the full list of dog access rules in the council's Policy on Dogs here.
