Tattva Talks: Is it time we embraced holistic health?

    2020-09-09T13:52:20+00:00September 4th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

    We all know that good food and activity form the bedrock of a healthy mind and body. Amid our global health crisis, many around the world are starting to awaken to the idea that holistic health must be a lifestyle choice, rather than a cure when it’s too late. Tattva asks the question: Have we created a society where we are too apathetic to take personal responsibility, or are we too comfortable with our access to a public healthcare system that will catch us if we fall?

      A lesson of restraint from the Mahabharat with Nitish Bharadwaj

      2020-09-10T06:54:33+00:00September 1st, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

      “There are four categories of people,” according to Nitish Bharadwaj, who played the adoring role of Lord Krishna in B. R. Chopra’s 1988 ‘Mahabharat’ based on the ancient Indian epic. “The educated, the intelligent, the wise and the enlightened. Every educated man need not be intelligent, every intelligent man need not be wise, and every wise man need not be enlightened.”

        British South Asian Youth Summit pushes to decolonise education in UK

        2020-09-04T09:38:16+00:00August 27th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

        An inaugural British South Asian Youth Summit, hosted virtually by veteran Indian-origin British MP Virendra Sharma recently, concluded with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) calling for the decolonisation of education in the UK to cover all aspects of history, including the realities of the British Empire.

          Bus to London: An epic journey from Delhi drives towards a 2021 start

          2020-08-26T12:14:21+00:00August 26th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

          As many as 18 countries, 20,000 km and 70 days – that is the estimate for just a one-way trip on one of the world’s longest bus journeys scheduled to kick off from the Indian capital of New Delhi to London in 2021. After the Delhi-London leg, the so-called “Bus to London” will transform into “Bus to India” for an equally epic return journey.

            Global Gene Corp living up to ‘Star Trek’ creator’s vision of better, fairer world

            2020-09-07T06:09:21+00:00August 23rd, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

            Sumit Jamuar is the Global Indian Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Global Gene Corp, which recently bagged the prestigious Roddenberry Prize 2020, designed to advance the vision of popular sci-fi series ‘Star Trek’ creator Gene Roddenberry of a better and fairer world. The genomics biotech company, which is headquartered in Mumbai and Cambridge, was recognised for helping the world overcome the bias that 80 per cent of all existing genomic data come from people of European ancestry.

              Call for Global Indians to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine trials

              2020-08-20T13:33:18+00:00August 20th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

              A targeted recruitment programme broadcast in Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu is among the measures being deployed to encourage more Global Indians and people from a minority ethnic background to sign up for ongoing clinical trials for a potential vaccine to combat Covid-19.