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Dealing with the Big C, the right way

BySeema Goswami
Feb 18, 2017 11:32 PM IST

Cancer is a word most of us tiptoe around; and when we do deal with it, we usually get it wrong

You expect gurus to give gyan on how to live our lives and perhaps, how to prepare for the afterlife. What you don’t expect them to do is to hold forth on medical science and tell us how to remain disease free. So, you can imagine the consternation when the ‘Yogi, Mystic and Visionary’ (that’s his Twitter bio; I kid you not) who goes by the name of Sadhguru tweeted this to mark World Cancer Day: “#Cancer is no disease but unknowingly touching the Self-Destruct button. Needs deeper exploration…”

How does one negotiate the minefield that surrounds cancer?(Getty Images)
How does one negotiate the minefield that surrounds cancer?(Getty Images)
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