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IDEAS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE • “IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED, DOUBLE YOUR FAILURE RATE.” TOM WATSON

Letters from India • Virali Modi Sapna Chouhan Suman Borade

Elephants

Galloping on the spiritual path • The narrative of a westerner travelling to the East to find enlightenment - and a sense of spiritual calm and peace they can bring home with them - is a long one.

The Gandhi effect • Indira Gandhi, the first female president of India, was well aware that she could be assassinated at any time.

Yogis in India • They’re taught to live simply, to control their minds and master their bodies. Western yogis have made Rishikesh, India, their second home.

A walk inside IKV • Long-term residents of IKV, Mitali Devi, 46, and her husband Ram Lutawan, 50, moved here just as India liberalised its economy in the early 1990s. They left their village Basti, in the neighbouring state of UP in the hope of a better life in the city.

womankind’s yoga challenge • Womankind readers set out on a challenge to practise yoga every day for five days. Here are their stories.

Yoga

My life in an ashram • One day Laurie Larson left her life in Washington and headed to the hills of India to live and work in an ashram.

Serenity in chaos • The largest spiritual gathering on Earth attracts millions of saints, seekers, sceptics, salesmen, and curious travellers.

womankind Photographers’ Award

Noise pollution

SIGHT UNSEEN • Tiffany Brar, 28, became blind a few months after she was born due to a lung problem and an overdose of oxygen prescribed by the doctor. As a teenager she travelled across India and encountered blind people leading miserable existences - homebound, uneducated, and idle. Today, Brar endeavours to teach the blind that their disability can be their greatest asset.

womankind Photographers’ Award XVIII water

The Ayurveda way • Ayurveda, or the science of how to live healthily, states that you’re only as healthy as your digestive system.

Mixed vegetable kadhai

Books

The power of the pen • Women writers from Indian heritage are at the top of their game.

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