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How to Manage your Thyroid?

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The function of the thyroid is to regulate all the processes of energy release within individual cells and in the body as a whole, as metabolism is the rate at which we produce and use energy. The release of energy from life process in its simplest term is the combination of oxygen from the air we breathe, with hydrocarbons from our food. These are molecules made up of chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Sugar and the carbohydrates we eat are turned into the sugar glucose, as well fats and proteins can also be turned into glucose when required. Individual … Continue reading How to Manage your Thyroid?

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Is Big Apple, a place to find and remake yourselves 

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A young woman from India feels the pull from Lady Liberty’s lifted torch in New York Harbour and crosses the globe to make a new life, although she knows the path won’t be straightforward but also that the Big Apple is the place to support and nurture her dreams. Kay Sohini, raised in the suburbs of Kolkata and given an English education, reading Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion and Alison Bechdel and dreamt always of New York. When she finally moved to the city, leaving behind an abusive relationship. Sohini refuses to look away from the city’s flaws, from the damage … Continue reading Is Big Apple, a place to find and remake yourselves 

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Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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In Waste Land, geopolitics veteran commentator, Robert Kaplan’s wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies, and assess the outlook for the 21st century, and reveals the society is  a hair’s breath away from the abyss. Donald Trump is taking office amid mini Trumps elsewhere, as steely autocrats steer Russia and China. We are entering a new era of global cataclysm, a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, and the end of empire. Kaplan explains incisively how we got here and where we are going. His trademark sweep of history, … Continue reading Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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Emilia Pérez takes 13 Oscar Nominations

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Only one of the 10 films nominated for best picture was directed by a woman- Coralie Fargeat’s controversial horror  The Substance, and Fargeat was also the only female screenwriter with solo credit across the 10 scripts in contention. Brady Corbet’s three-and-half hour epic, The Brutalist, about a Hungarian Holocaust survivor of second world war played by Adrien Brody coming to post war America to be an architect, took 10 nominations, as did Wicked, the hit adaptation of the Broadway show. James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, came away with eight nominations, as did Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave, starring … Continue reading Emilia Pérez takes 13 Oscar Nominations

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Revelatory biography of a surprising and complex man

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Dive into the pages and Celebrate one of the REAL stars of the USA! There are 24 chapters in four parts in this very readable book.  The book contains many black and white illustrations and photographs showing Redford as a star with other actors, pictures of his family, his youth  and some of his personally executed artworks. Redford originally studied Art at higher education level and then travelled Europe where he lived on a shoestring taking in the galleries and the beauty of the landscape and architecture.  When he returned to the USA he worked as a set designer and decorator  for films.  While he … Continue reading Revelatory biography of a surprising and complex man

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Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy

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How many times you have set New Year resolutions only to break them within days. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. Renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions, doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone-call. He urges to transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now, by calling them atomic habits. Clears reveals how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. … Continue reading Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy

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The Culture of encounter

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Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to head the Catholic Church, goes where no pontiffs have not dared, originally intended this book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to make this precious legacy available now. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis’s Italian roots and his ancestors’ courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through … Continue reading The Culture of encounter

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Trump: “ The American Golden Age”

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President Donald Trump sworn in as America’s 47th president on Monday President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address from inside the Capitol Rotunda, giving a sweeping indictment of the country and promises to fix its problems, “Start of a thrilling new era and to make America greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free”. He vowed to send troops to the US-Mexican border, boost domestic oil production and … Continue reading Trump: “ The American Golden Age”

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Taiwan caught between Chinese power and vagaries of US politics

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When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Kerry Brown on the small island caught between Chinese power and the vagaries of US politics, to find a solution to a problem, when they attempt it would most certainly lead to world war, the stalemate prevailed for the past 76 years. Taiwan is now a free, vibrant society, flourishing democracy and an economic success story, as one of … Continue reading Taiwan caught between Chinese power and vagaries of US politics

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Complexities of Hinduism

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One of India’s most accomplished historian makes a vital intervention, about Hinduism that begins with a maharaja’s cow sounds, reptiles with spices, mystery and backward traditions. When Europeans missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism as they saw it, was a pagan mess a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu idolatry was far more layered and complex than European stereotypes allowed, surprisingly even sharing certain impulses with Christianity.  Manu … Continue reading Complexities of Hinduism