An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The eyes are not only your windows to the world; they are the mirrors of your soul. This precious gift needs to be looked after well if one is to enhance both the quality of one’s looks and one’s life.

Tips for Keeping your eyes healthy and Bright:

In today’s world irrespective of whether you’re employed in the IT world or not most people spend a large portion of their day in front of the computer. This causes the eyes to get stressed and strained. So, here are some tips to help you keep your eyes bright and healthy.

Prateik Babbar’s cameo role as the brother who resents his sister’s boyfriend in the super-hit ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’ brought to the fore many of the undercurrents that exist between brothers and boyfriends, or between brothers-in-law after marriage.

This is one relationship that takes some careful handling. While the eventual bond it produces can be great fun for both parties, brothers generally tend to look with a slight amount of suspicion and wariness at their sisters’ boyfriends.

Raksha Bandhan is a much bigger festival in the North of India than in the South, but its effects are widely felt. It renders sacred the tie between a woman and her brother, and has been the subject of many tear-jerker songs from Hindi films. As lakhs of women all over the country were tying their ‘rakhis’, inevitably, their husbands and boyfriends must have been experiencing mixed feelings.

The rushed and stressful life-style of an average city-dwelling young professional can leave little time for taking exceptional care of one’s health and body. However, some signals from your body must be heeded if they are to be prevented from becoming more severe and limiting ailments. Here’s a list of common symptoms and their likely meaning.

When you are always either going in for a cold, or not able to recover from one, there could be a variety of reasons.

Sniffling, a runny nose, or sneezing often usually mean allergies. A head cold could be the result of moving in and out of air-conditioned environments from cold to hot and humid and back, as well as drinking very cold and very hot fluids – cold water and hot coffee.

Have you walked into a Lladro or Swarovski showroom and wondered at the people who have Rs. 40,000/- to spend on a little figurine to keep in their drawing room cabinet? Have you gone into a friend’s house and seen such a cute little terracotta Ganesh that you mentally vowed to get one just like that one for your own home? Have you been browsing idly and with no particular interest in an exhibition that your friend dragged you to, and then found exactly what you wanted – a napkin holder made of clear acrylic and dried rose petals?    

If you have answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, you will know the role that bric-a-brac or small knick knacks, or objects of limited utility but high sentimental value have within the house you set up with your partner. When people get married and settle down, they begin to accumulate what becomes a virtual museum in the years that follow. All their friends’ and well-wishers’ gifts, all their experiences together with their share of souvenirs, all the little symbols they acquire of their growing prosperity – everything is translated into little objects that inhabit their home.

Yes, a wedding is supposed to be a bride’s most momentous day. Is it any wonder that she should be subject to a million tiny worries in the weeks leading up to her wedding? We capture some of these in our tongue-in-cheek checklist for the bride.

*Have to send out the first invitation card to that chap who’s been pestering me since high school. Imagine! Seven years and he’s still writing me poems hinting of marriage. Must put him out of his misery.

*Must accompany Ma to the shops tomorrow in my lunch hour. Now that we’re getting down to buying the sarees to give away to relatives, I confess I’m running out of steam and enthu…