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Sunny Side Up Episode 15 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. Gratitude strengthens the immune system, lowers blood pressure and reduces symptoms of illness. Anu Hasan compares a person's attitude to a muscle. The more you exercise your 'positivity muscle' with gratitude and positive thoughts, the stronger your ability to remain grateful and positive, even during difficult times.

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those...

Jayna Kothari is a co-founder of the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore and practices as a Counsel in the Karnataka High Court and the Supreme Court of India. In this 5-part series on the Aadhaar project by UIDAI, Kothari explains the impact of Aadhaar's mandatory gender disclosure clause on the rights of the sexual minorities of the country. Have you ever wondered if declaring your gender a violation of privacy? Transgender and intersex individuals go through multiple gender...

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those...

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those...

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those...

Sunny Side Up Episode 14 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. Keeping commitments, while sometimes stressful, has well established perks, but did you know that it is also an important tool towards self-esteem? Anu Hasan tells us how keeping our commitments can teach us about ourselves, our failures and our relationships, in episode 14 of Sunny Side Up.

Sunny Side Up Episode 13 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. At some point or another, each one of us gets compared to someone else - someone more successful than us, smarter than us or better looking than us. Anu Hasan shares her stories on being the subject of innumerable comparisons, and tells us how she sailed through them without denting her self-esteem.

Sunny Side Up Episode 12 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. Moments of hurt and disappointment are inevitable in life. Our success in navigating relationships during such times depends not on the number of battles we fight and win, but on how much bitterness we choose to harbour, says Anu Hasan on episode 12 of Sunny Side Up.

Sunny Side Up Episode 11 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. "Anyone who knows my family background, knows that I have not been as prodigious an actor as some in my family. I am not as rich as some of them, I am not as good looking as some of them or as clever as some of them. But despite this, I am very confident of my place in this world..." Anu Hasan tells us about the source of her self-assured happiness in...

The Pipette Episode 7 Small doses of science and society by Padma Bhushan awardee Prof P Balaram. The methods of science have clearly made inroads into the domains of economics and finance. Physicians and mathematicians have been employed in large number by western financial institutions. Behavioural economics is a discipline that draws its essential elements from psychology. In this episode of The Pipette, Prof Balaram considers a questions that is often asked. Is economics a science? And...

Sunny Side Up Episode 10 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. "As long as I wasn't breaking the law, there was nothing wrong in being different. There is nothing wrong in doing something that other people aren't doing. All that matters is whether you are happy and content", says Anu Hasan urging us to live our lives on the the strength of our own convictions and not others' expectations.

Happyness Episode 6 India’s leading anti-drug crusader, Dr Yusuf Merchant, explains the concept of happiness and how we can achieve it in our lives. How do we cope with the randomness that is inherent in the world around us? Events, environment and people are all outside our realm of control and the key to happiness is to find a certainty from within. Dr Yusuf Merchant tells us how to do this with three simple exercises.

Sunny Side Up Episode 9 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. How often have we heard the statement, "Oh we all make mistakes, it's ok"? But do we always believe that? Some of the mistakes we have made in the past shame us and often come back to haunt us with refrains of 'if only' and 'how I wish I hadn't'. Anu Hasan talks to us about her experiences of coping with her past mistakes.

Happyness Episode 5 India’s leading anti-drug crusader, Dr Yusuf Merchant, explains the concept of happiness and how we can achieve it in our lives. What is the meaning of life? A loaded question that many of us wonder, sometimes even ask aloud, but mostly shelve for another time. The answer to the meaning of life and the meaning of happiness is one and the same, says Dr Yusuf Merchant as he takes us through his experience of finding a suitable answer to this unique query.

The Mandate Episode 3 The Mandate is a three part series by Harish Narasappa on the history of the two dominant electoral systems: first-past-the-post system and proportional representation system, and its implications in India. Mr Narasappa is a lawyer and member of the Karnataka Election Watch and the National Election Watch. Will the Proportional Representation method work in the political climate of India? Mr Narasappa highlights the challenges towards incorporating this method in the...

The Mandate Episode 2 The Mandate is a three part series by Harish Narasappa on the history of the two dominant electoral systems: first-past-the-post system and proportional representation system, and its implications in India. Mr Narasappa is a lawyer and member of the Karnataka Election Watch and the National Election Watch. Why did the drafters of our constitution adopt the first-past-the-post system? Can the proportional representation system solve India's electoral problems? Mr...

The Mandate Episode 1 The Mandate is a three part series by Harish Narasappa on the history of the two dominant electoral systems: first-past-the-post system and proportional representation system, and its implications in India. Mr Narasappa is a lawyer and member of the Karnataka Election Watch and the National Election Watch. In this episode, Mr Narasappa talks about the differences between the first-past-the-post system and the proportional system used for conducting elections.

Sugata Srinivasaraju reads a poem a week to confront the times we are living in. More people have now been forced to flee their homes by conflict and crisis than at any time since World War II. More recently, the United States' "zero-tolerance" immigration policy saw thousands of children forcibly separated from their parents at the Mexican border. Jon Veinberg was a poet born in Germany in 1947 after his family fled Soviet occupied Estonia. Around 1950, they emigrated to the United States....

Sunny Side Up Episode 7 Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. The search for happiness is a journey we are all on in our own unique way. Anu Hasan shares 8 lessons from her life that have helped her stay happy- some obvious, and some unexpected.