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Biochemistry of Sudarshan Kriya
"If we reduce the number of oxygen radicals, we improve the antioxidant status in our body and live longer."- Manoj Jain Ever wondered what causes us to age, resulting in death of our body cells over the years, or develop heart disease leading t ...
‘Convicts like family’: a policeman’s unique perspective
Among many policemen who serve the nation and maintain law and order, meet DSP of Ranchi who has walked an extra mile for transforming the lives of policemen and prisoners. “Even if it is a convict, I have learned to believe that nobody is bad." A ve ...
A Jail Daughter
Indu Sinha has worked for the stress-relief of 5,000 prisoners across seven prisons in India. One morning, Indu Sinha, who was visiting her home state of Bihar, read a feature in the local newspaper of a massacre in Senari village where Naxalites beheaded ...
Sultan of Swings Settles Deep Within
Its 3 o clock in the afternoon. He had been planning and waiting for this day since almost three weeks. He ran the plan carefully in his mind. "finish the dishes...press his 'seth's' feet till he falls into his afternoon nap...leave th ...
Yoga Behind Bars
None of those prisoners who have done Sudarshan Kriya have come back to jail till date, shares Sadashiv Kamath, a prison program teacher, teaching actively in the Mangalore central jail. Regular courses, where the Sudarshan Kriya and other practical techn ...
Love In The Life Of A Criminal
Unfathomable are the ways of Love! With love comes compassion, belongingness. Love has no border, it sees no color, it doesn’t differentiate, it embraces all. Even the toughest of criminals, when shown compassion, bow down with folded hands and surrender ...
Prison Smart, the Great Growth in Argentina
Breathing For Freedom Since 2006 thousands of Argentine prisoners have completed regular Art of Living courses including, Advanced Meditation Courses (Part 2), Sri Sri Yoga and pre-Teachers Training Course. Ismael Mastrini, a lawyer, closed his firm to d ...
Smiling Uniforms
It is rare to see a smiling, calm and an energetic policeman (women included) on the streets of India. But, for the citizens of the far northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, this won’t be a rare scenario. Being a policeman, is not an easy job. There a ...
Prison SMART in Tihar Jail
Tihar Jail The Prison SMART program was introduced in Tihar Jail in 1999. More than 120,000 inmates from prisons in India have undergone the Prison SMART program with spectacular results. In Tihar Jail (Asia's largest prison) alone, around 48,000 c ...
The gift of a yoga mat
At the outset of a prisoner rehabilitation course in Peru’s Piedras Gordas Prison, the prisoners were given a gift: a yoga mat. The mat could have been passed off as something to make the course more comfortable and obviously would be returned after the c ...
