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Travel Love: 6 Vagabond Couples & Their Favourite Romantic Destinations
It’s the month of love. We’ve been giving you inspirations for Valentine’s Day gifts and romantic restaurants. Now, here’s some travel love talk. Six couples spill some romantic moments from their travel diaries that would kindle you to pursue your travel wish list. For romantics who favour travel over things, Nikita Chawla and Purva Bhatia bring to you couples who’d inspire you to set ultimate travel goals. The Classic Explorers: Vikas Chawla & Arushi Gupta An entrepreneur (Co-founder Social Beat), marketer and traveller, Vikas Chawla has travelled to 33 countries till date and aims to hit 50 countries by the time he turns 50! A Delhite now settled in Chennai,…
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Practical Fitness Tips to Keep Up Your Resolutions This Year!
So, how’s your fitness resolution going so far? We’ve got Dr Deepti Bagree, HOD at Reset Holistic Living Concepts (Mumbai) to share fitness tips that can make you stick with the resolutions all year long. “Resolution” a synonym for a new YOU in terms of health and body but also reminds us of the bumpy roads and pitfalls that takes it to reach there and we are left with a question staring at us as to how can we stick around it this time! There are various ways to make it possible simply by making resolutions more realistic and time bound. Few of the realistic fitness resolution can be: Get Moving! The…
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Fitness Tips: 5 Ways To Detox After The Holiday Season
Looking for ways to detox your system? Munmun Ganeriwal shares how to get back on track after indulging on vacation, holiday season, or after festivities. Ate too much during the festivities and the holiday season? Fret not! Here are some simple tips to detoxify and cleanse your system. 1. Coconut water Excessive eating along with alcoholic drinks & sleep deprivation ends up in ruining your gut flora and the intestinal mucus. Rich in enzymes and electrolytes, coconut water acts as a digestive tonic, feeds friendly gut flora, keeps dehydration away, relieves you of acidity & constipation and in short, will help your intestines repair and recover. Drink fresh coconut water…
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10 Songs for Your Travel Playlist For A Musical Road Trip
This was meant to be an all together different post. I turned on the ‘Mix Radio’ app on my Nokia Lumia just before I began writing. I had just gathered my thoughts when “Take Me Home, Country Roads” began. And in a jiffy I was in West Virginia. Needless to say, I lost my train of thoughts on this mental journey. So I thought of putting together a travel playlist of songs that inspire travel, and songs that are my best companions on a road trip. Here goes: 1. Sweet Home Alabama: Never been anywhere even close to Alabama, but this feel-good song by Lynyrd Skynyrd is a mood lifter. 2. Patakha Guddi: A…
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Durga Pujo 2017: Top 5 Places to Visit in Delhi
Durga Pujo. The essence of the festival is to worship the female force without whom the world will come at a standstill. Durga Pujo is most famous in Bengal but is celebrated pan India. For Bengalis nothing can come closer to the pandals of Kolkata but we have tried to manage a list of 5 places where you can feel the magic of Durga Pujo in Delhi. Kashmere Gate Delhi Durga Puja Samiti, also known as the Kashmere Gate Durga Puja, is the oldest community Durga Puja in Delhi. It started in the year of 1910 at Roshanpura Kali Mandir, Delhi. At Delhi Durga Puja Samiti, Maa Durga’s idol is…
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Top Excuses for Not Exercising and How to Beat Them
You can either have an exercise excuse or fitness results. You can’t have both. Luke Coutinho, MD Alternative Medicine & Founder, Purenutrition.me, hears various excuses for not staying fit. And he has answers for all of them! He shares with us top fitness excuses and ways to beat them. Losing weight is a serious commitment and requires extreme honesty with oneself and to the one he/she is accountable to. And lets be true. How many times do we come up (or hear someone) with excuses for not being able to workout, drink water, prepare homemade meals or even sleep on time? Maybe we have even lost count on that. We…
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Travel Tips: How to stay vigilant when travelling in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is arguably the most popular region in the entire world with travellers. Boasting unparalleled natural beauty and swathes of culture throughout, there’s no reason to miss out travelling to SE Asia. But you’ll need to stay vigilant and look out for certain risks on your holiday. Here are some travel tips to keep you safe and secure during your Southeast Asian getaway. Keep your belongings safe Theft or the misplacement of their belongings is the most common problem one encounters while travelling in Southeast Asia. Be it because of their own negligence or an opportunistic local, it happens all too often. You need to be extremely vigilant in…
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Healthy Ways to Lose Pregnancy Weight
“Life would never be the same again. Welcome to motherhood,” wrote one of my dear friends when I became a mom previous month. To be honest, the statement brought excitement and fear simultaneously. I have been experiencing changes physically, emotionally and mentally since the time I conceived. I am aware things will fall in place slowly but losing pregnancy weight seems like a daunting task. So I turned to fitness expert, Luke Coutinho (MD Alternative Medicine & Founder Pure Nutrition) for his advice on healthy ways to lose pregnancy weight. Here’s what he had to say… Throughout the 9-month journey of pregnancy, a mother goes through a lot of physical…
