Wataru Sato and his team at Kyoto University have found an answer to what happiness is from a neurological perspective. Overall happiness, according to their study, is a combination of happy emotions and satisfaction of life coming together in the precuneus, a region in the medial parietal lobe that becomes active when experiencing consciousness. People […]

Oxford Dictionaries announces the emoji, commonly known as ‘Face with Tears of Joy’, as its “Word” of the Year for 2015. The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a word or expression chosen to reflect the passing year in language. Every year, the Oxford Dictionaries team reviews candidates for word of the year and […]

popular meditation technique that’s intended to create feelings of kindness can also reduce prejudice, according to new University of Sussex research. The study, published online in the journal Motivation and Emotion, found that just seven minutes of Loving-kindness meditation (LKM), a Buddhist practise that promotes unconditional kindness towards oneself and others, is effective at reducing […]

‘The Yoga of Indian Dance’ a book by Mandakini Trivedi, is in fact a 25 page booklet, with stencilled Lord Nataraja on the cover. The book traces the basic concepts of Yoga, how they are applicable in regular life and their spiritual implications. It then talks about Natya Sastra, similarity between natya and yoga, and […]