Festivals might be known for music, mud, and cheap beer, but there are now over 1,000 wellness festivals every year in the US. Celebrating holistic living and mindfulness, they're bringing together yoga teachers, meditation instructors and wellness lovers for a new kind of festival experience.

Why are Indian families shrinking? What’s to become of the tradition of the home-cooked family meal? And how are Dalits fighting against age-old inequalities? This Cultural Snapshot uses local statistics and case studies to explore behavioural norms shared by Indian people in 2016.

With one in ten Americans practising lotus, warrior and downward dog poses, yoga has taken the US by storm. General awareness around the exercise has grown, and with 80 million saying they're keen to try it out in 2016, yoga looks set to continue getting Americans into shape.

We’re losing focus on the present. We spend 47% of our time thinking about something other than what we’re actually doing. In the UK, US and Australia, fuelled by the desire to slow down and appreciate the moment, mindfulness – which can reduce anxiety by 70% – is now the antidote to busy city lifestyles.