Daily Archives: September 19, 2011


Goya’s historic war

DISASTERS, war, hunger and human suffering fanned the imagination of iconic 18th century Spanish artist Goya, who captured the horrors of Napoleon’s invasion of Spain on canvas, drawings and etchings. Now his legacy has traveled all the way to India. A comprehensive exposition of Goya’s wartime etchings, Chroniclers of All Wars: The Disasters and War […]


A tissue that burns oodles of FLAB

BROWN fat, a wondrous tissue, can burn oodles of flab and help us stay slim and trim. Brown fat is present in most, if not all, adults mainly just behind the collarbone. Too much of ‘white fat’ causes obesity. A gram of the substance stores six kilocalories of energy, whereas the same quantity of brown […]