Fair Warning: This post straddles both my personal and academic confusions and choices. I was warned that this would happen, that when I chose to work on something like Ayurveda, I would one day find myself being one of the subjects of my study. And that day has come, when I, like others in the cases that I read, am appalled at my lifestyle and is consciously taking decisions to change it. Over the course of research on New Age health, I have had to look at various websites that cater to a population looking to lead a more holistic lifestyle rather than the very individualised and compartmentalised ones that they believe themselves to be leading. I was amazed at what people were willing to do towards this end and how it meant deliberating and making changes in multiple aspects that would have been taken for granted so far. This extended to stuff like making your own soaps, going off contraceptive pills and cycling to work. A considerable number of people believed they would find pe...
the writing on the wall is always blurred.