healing

Issac Mathai: Guru of the Holistic

V Shoba

Issac Mathai, founder of Soukya, may be sought after by the likes of Prince Charles and Rajinikanth, but he is a community healer at heart

Hands in the Mud

Shylashri Shankar

When planting a thought is space-time medicine

Family Trauma

Bhavya Dore

Ann Patchett’s new novel is about heartbreaks and healing

Vercelli: Where Nothing Happens

Sumana Roy

In Vercelli, a small town in Italy, it is not time but idleness that heals

Alternative Therapy Alert

Dr Ambrish Mithal

The synergy of modern and traditional medicine can make India a world leader

The carefully postured bodies in the paintings of Francisco Goya, or the ones reduced to an abstraction in the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, transform into bizarre entities in a fascinating exhibition that examines notions of health and healing in India