When art becomes science to heal body and mind

New Delhi:  Ever heard of Mozart’s Effect? Several studies have shown that listening to the composer’s music improves certain kind of mental tasks. Now, such positive scientific elements of ancient and classical arts are at the core of a three-day cultural festival.

Visual arts, as studies show, can deal with depression and foster healthy childbirth.

The beat of Indian percussion instruments, Naga yoga, whirling dervish dance, classical ragas and ancient dance movements…

World of Indian Diaspora to come alive in docu series

The world of the Indian Diaspora, their life in all its shades of colours, will soon come alive in a series of documentaries that well-known documentary filmmaker Siddharth Kak and his Surabhi Foundation are currently making.

The series of 10 documentaries will be shot partly on location in countries where large numbers of overseas Indians are settled.

The documentaries will show the vast world of the Indian Diaspora, telling the stories…

Women feel emotions more intensely than men

Women feel emotions more intensely than men when a conflict arises between them as a couple, said a study that analysed the type of interpersonal emotions people feel when they face different conflicting situations.

The study also analysed how emotions impact the recurrence of conflicts, reports the journal Intervention Psychosocial.

It found that men mostly express “powerful emotions” as wrath or contempt, causing conflicts more frequently.

A sample of 142 students, 75…

Why women cut their hair after a break-up

Much to the surprise of her friends, 23-year-old Prachi Nigam, after a gap of four years, cut her long hair to shoulder-length — a rebellious way to tell her ex-boyfriend, “You are no more in my life and the thing you loved most about me I have got rid of.”

This is not just Nigam’s story, but most young women these days cut their hair after a break-up to announce…

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