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Lifestyle Trend (Food Supplements)

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Take Supplements Without Tasting Coffee   It’s improper to pop supplements while sipping coffee. But many make this common mistake. Health researches reveal that the chemical compounds in the beverage meddle with the nutrient compositions to leave an adverse impact on health.   By PRAMITA BOSE Perfect intake time Patients are always advised to take iron supplements ideally on an empty stomach. “So if you take iron tablets early morning, then have your breakfast after an hour or so. This maximises iron absorption. Or else, you may take it in the afternoon at least a couple of hours before lunch time. Leave a time gap of minimum one to two hours between your iron intake and a cup of coffee,” dispenses Dr Murtaza S Bagwala, head of emergency medical services at Saifee Hospital in Mumbai. Consuming calcium with a good meal improves its absorption quality. So having the element in the afternoon shows a better outcome. Magnesium intake is normally recommended at night before ...

Style Check (Denim)

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  Denim Diktat for Your Wardrobe   Discover the benefits of easy-breezy denim to up your fashion quotient this season.   By PRAMITA BOSE Going miles Has denim evolved from the casual category with actors, entertainment hosts or industrial magnates slipping into denim jeans and jackets as officewear even for formal meetings, launches and presentations? “Denim doesn’t just come a long way; it mirrors the times. It is the ultimate fashion chameleon, permanently relevant and entirely reinvented for every season we experience,” enlightens Umashan Naidoo, head customer and beauty at Trent Ltd , a popular Indian retail company that operates major fashion and lifestyle brands like Westside, among others. Fashion designer Jasminum Kaur too nods to this idea saying that “denim has irrefutably crossed the casualwear segment to get introduced to semi-formal and professional fashion arenas and is widely accepted there when styled well.” “Discernibly, denim has br...

Lifestyle Pick (Hygge)

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Hello Hygge! Farewell Fakeness Are you genuinely happy from inside? Or just faking your smile for those ‘Instagrammable’ selfies and the surrounding society! You only know better if you are hiding your sorrows, difficulties and sore wounds. Discover the secrets of pure happiness with hygge that teaches you the art of well-being by seeking joys in humble funs and amusements of life! By PRAMITA BOSE Hey It’s Hygge! The philosophy represents your happy bubble — a space where you find your calm and emotional contentment. In other words, you are under a hygge effect — pronounced as hoo-gah. Primarily a Danish concept, sociologists suggest that this positive attitude of hygge has been quite instrumental in frequently catapulting the Scandinavian countries and broader Nordic nations (including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, among others) to the top slots of the happiness index. This is proven by the World Happiness Report that publishes the annual ranks on the happiness s...

Literary Pursuit (Short Story in Bengali)

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দিনলিপি প্রমিতা বসু মই বেয়ে বাসের ছাদে উঠে ভাজা খই খেতে খেতে সক্কাল-সক্কাল গ্রাম থেকে শহর অভিমুখে রওনা হলেন পঞ্চাশোর্ধ কানাই দলুই I পরনে ফিকে হয়ে যাওয়া হলুদ ফতুয়া আর রিপু করা চেক নীল-সবুজ লুঙ্গি I দু পায়ে এক জোড়া সাধারণ মানের সেলাই করা চপ্পল I কেবল এ টুকুই সম্বল করে প্রতি বুধবার এই একই নিয়ম পালন করে চলেন মাঝবয়সী ক্ষুদ্র ব্যবসায়ী — মুন্সিপাড়ার দলুইদা I এর অন্যথা কখনো হয়না I শুকনো মুখ, উস্কোখুস্কো চুল আর  দু গালে ও থুতনিতে কাঁচা-পাকা খোঁচা খোঁচা দাড়ি নিয়ে তার শীর্ণ দেহে দূরপাল্লার এক বিশালাকায় চার চাকার গাড়ির মাথায় চড়ে বসলেন প্রৌঢ় । করজোড়ে কপালে নমস্কার ঠুকে দুগ্গা দুগ্গা বলে যাত্রা করলেন শান্ত মনের নির্লিপ্ত স্বভাবের পরিশ্রমী মানুষটি I উদয়-অস্ত কাজ করে চলেছেন মিতভাষী লোক টি I মুখে কোনো রা নেই I কপালে হালকা বলিরেখা দেখা দিয়েছে I কিন্তু তাতে কি? সময় কি আর কারোর জন্য থেমে থাকে বুঝি! প্রান্তিক সমাজের একজন হয়েও জীবনের প্রতি তার  এতটু কু  আক্ষেপ নেই I তিনি দিব্বি আছেন নিজের চরখায তেল দিয়ে I সাতে পাঁচে না থেকে I আগে পিছে কিছু না ভেবে I এমনকি ভগবানের দরবারেও অনুযোগ পূর্ণ কোনো ন...

Relationship Trend (Zip-Coding)

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Keep tabs of the world around even if you zip-code Zip-coding dating pattern prompts people to seek and chase partners from a relatable community and within an area that’s just a stone’s throw away. It is a throwback to those black-and-white manual, affable times — much opposed to today’s mechanical, robotic life. Whether the frequency of ‘meeting and greeting’ your date outshines the trouble of tackling traffic snarls before reaching the assignation point, only time will tell. Both veterans and Gen Z-ites share their freewheeling views on this seemingly rising trend. Read on… By PRAMITA BOSE Decoding zip-coding Contrary to a plethora of dating styles in practice, zip-coding in the domain of modern mating attaches more importance to the proximity-first factor. Lonely hearts and eager daters specifically hunt partners dwelling pretty close by, such as on the same premises flanking a corridor, in the same block, shared by a common postal code or in the adjoining locality. Thus, the ‘d...