Abandoned yards, overgrown ditches, forests, wild urban gardens: Nature can thrive in the unlikeliest of places. But these hardy, often beautiful plants stubbornly growing in the gaps between bricks and stones or dry canals can often provide surprising health benefits. “I see a mixed set of practitioners—home cooks and chefs, environmental activists, gardeners, urban farmers and enthusiasts of mycology and …
I met him in June 2009, and very early on it became apparent to me that something wasn’t right,” says Simar, 34, a Delhi-based communications professional, about her then boyfriend. When Vijay Nallawala, who runs a mental health support platform called Bipolar India, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2003, a psychiatrist recommended he “get married to solve all your …
