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Teja Lele Desai

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Light biking, swimming, brisk walking or any activity that involves moving your body at a moderate-to-vigorous pace is considered to be a form of MVPA. Photo: iStockphoto

The workouts that can help you live healthy

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Experts are quick to point out that snacking as a habit need not be vilified.

Train your brain with these smart snacking habits

4 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Piyali Prabhat likes to stand while working. Photo: Nafis Khan /Mint

Bringing fun into the workplace at Mastercard

2 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Get supercharged with a sleepcation

4 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Shilpa T.C. (left) and Chaitanya S.H. connected through badminton. Photo: Jithendra M/Mint

Aricent India’s sports meet brings employees together

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

The table tennis tournament started three years ago. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is building cross-country employee bonds

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

DHL tournaments help knit together a network of employees working in more than 200 countries. Photo: Nayan Shah/Mint

How DHL Express uses football and cheerleading as an employee connector

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

The aim of the cricket tournament is to help reduce stress and encourage team building. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Apollo Hospitals’ sports tournament is helping heal employee rifts

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Pallavi Mithika Menon. Photo: Nagesh Polali/Mint

What freedom at work means to a millennial employee

4 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Srishti Agarwal believes people leave bad managers, not companies. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Managing millennials? Be a partner not a leader

5 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Charan Sampath (third from the left) competed in a Triathlon event. Photo: Jithendra M./Mint

It’s good for the game, great for the workplace

5 min read . 24 Aug 2021

The DBS Bank India office in Mumbai has cycles so that employees can be active while sitting at their desk for hours; (below) Tarunpal Singh, senior designer at Droom.in, exercising in his Gurgaon office.

Why some offices are putting cycles at desks

5 min read . 13 May 2019

Rohan Pant (right) with Ishan Gupta, MD of Udacity, says their best brainstorming sessions happen over foosball.

Informal meetings are key to innovative ideas

5 min read . 20 Mar 2019

The Pune club meets at Ravi Jagasiya’s home. Photo: Ravindra Joshi/Mint (Ravindra Joshi)

A new recipe to spice up the old book clubs

5 min read . 22 Jan 2019

Chefs Anahita Dhondy and Vicky Ratnani.

Two chefs let us in on the secret to happiness: eat right

3 min read . 19 Mar 2018

Start by clearing your kitchen counters of sugary snacks and salty, over-processed junk food. Photo: iStockPhoto

Lifestyle tips: 12 months, 12 resolutions

6 min read . 25 Dec 2017

Multi-hued: (clockwise from top left) A Hindu temple in Ubud; carving on wood and other material is an important art form; tourism revolves around the scenic rice fields; and (below) Legong is perform

Eat-pray-love island

4 min read . 26 Aug 2010

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