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Bang bang, my baby got me down
Last week, the local newspapers were full of stories about a new mom in Bangalore who allegedly killed her seven month-old baby girl. The 23-year-old mother (who also has an older girl child) had been...
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How experiencing post-partum depression changed my view of a ‘perfect mom’
My pregnancy was unplanned. I got married just out of college. Eight months later, as I was all set to enroll for an MBA, I found out I was going to be a mother. I was in denial. “This cannot be...
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We owe the children of our country a healthy start to their lives
Courtesy: Wikimedia There are 158.8 million children below the age of 6 in India out of which 63 million (nearly 40%) are undernourished. Every year, 3.1 million children die due to under nutrition....
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Why you should never dismiss symptoms of depression simply as signs of ageing
It was a beautiful October night in Bangalore and she was in the middle of entertaining friends at home when the call came. “You have to do something, your mother hit me in the head and now its...
View ArticleWhat I learnt about life and farming as a tea plantation owner in Kerala
When my husband bought us a tea plantation on a remote hill in Waynad on the edge of Kerala’s Western Ghats to retire to, I was ready to brave any challenge. We were in our early forties, there was...
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The invisible factor of malnutrition – Stunting
Malnourishment in India. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Among a group of 38 nations (many with GDP’s lesser than India), India has 48% of its children below the age of 5 who are stunted (those who are too...
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