Walk into any nursery or scroll through an online seed store, and it’s easy to get swept up in the sheer variety on offer: glossy packets promising bumper tomato harvests, towering sunflowers, and sprawling cucumber vines. The trouble is that a lot of what’s sold for a full backyard garden simply isn’t built for life…
Photo: Instagram/@sohailkhanofficial Divorce may end a marriage, but it does not end parenthood. And sometimes, one of the most important things separated parents can do for their children is to stop trying to win against each other.Actor Sohail Khan’s recent comments about co-parenting with his former wife Seema Sajdeh offer a simple but important reminder:…
Oscar Wilde’s most famous novel is ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, published in 1890. (Image Credit: AI) Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright known for his sharp wit and deep knowledge of human nature. He once talked about a beautiful idea about himself, describing himself as a person who walks through life with…
Raksha Bandhan is often reduced to a simple exchange: a rakhi goes on the wrist, sweets make their way around the room and a gift appears in a brightly wrapped box. But the best gifts for a sister are rarely about how expensive they are. They are about showing that you know her well. This…
At age 12, Bihar’s Satyam Kumar cracked IIT-JEE, one of India’s toughest competitive exams. At an age when most children are still getting used to secondary school, Satyam Kumar was preparing for one of India’s toughest entrance examinations. At 12, the boy from Bihar cracked the IIT-JEE. A year later, he returned to the exam…
Quote of the day by Sadhguru (Photo: @SadhguruJV/ X) Life has its ways of testing us and then landing us in a pool of surprises. For a moment, it might seem that everything is going our way, and the next, an unexpected challenge comes up- maybe a job loss, a health issue, a difficult conversation,…
5 ways to protect your peace without cutting people off There comes a point when you realise that peace is not always about having fewer people around you. Sometimes, it is about changing the way you carry those relationships.You can love your family and still not absorb every opinion they have. You can care about…
Why do plastic stools have a hole in the center? You may have sat on a plastic stool many times without ever wondering about the small hole in its center.It is such a familiar sight in homes, shops, classrooms, and outdoor spaces that it barely registers anymore. But once you notice it, the question is…
There are things every Indian woman knows but rarely says. She knows the difference between the floor and the laundry basket, even when the person whose towel is on the floor does not. She knows that a dinner plate does not have legs and will not walk itself to the kitchen. She knows that the…
The idea is very simple. All you need to do is, take a fresh and new roll of toilet paper and place it on a shelf or in a corner, where it is left for several hours or overnight. The idea behind this hack is that it help absorb moisture and, to some extent, odours…
When Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia, known as PK, fell in love with a Swedish woman in Delhi in the mid-1970s, getting to her was not simple. He was an Indian art student from Odisha. She was a young woman from a Swedish noble family. When Lotta returned to Sweden, PK had no money for a flight….
Scroll through enough laundry hack content online, and you’ll eventually come across someone tossing a crumpled ball of aluminium foil straight into their washing machine, claiming it’s the secret to softer, static-free clothes without a single dryer sheet in sight. It’s an offshoot of a genuinely older, more established trick involving the dryer, but the…
There is a moment in Apexa Rajput’s story that stops you completely. The bank officials came and sealed the door of her family’s home in their small village in Maharashtra, a padlock on the place where a family should have been living. The debt had grown too large for two agricultural labourers earning just Rs…
Choosing a baby girl’s name can be a balance between tradition and individuality. While some parents prefer names that feel completely contemporary, others are drawn to names with a story behind them. These names have ancient roots in Greek and Roman history, mythology, and culture, yet many still sound fresh and stylish today. Here are…
Image Courtesy: Chess Base India It was an unusual Tuesday evening at the Sawai household in Delhi. Their 15-year-old son Vandan Alankar Sawai had played an online chess tournament, but there was no announcement, no excited phone call to friends and no dramatic celebration. In fact, Vandan had not even told his parents whom he…
It was supposed to be a simple evening out. Sonam Midha, an Indian woman living in Japan, had gone to a restaurant with a friend on rented bicycles. Before walking in, she tucked her purse into the bicycle basket outside, a casual, thoughtless moment of the kind we all have dozens of times a day….
Employee says late shift is better, sparks debate online The standard 9-to-5 schedule is being questioned in an online debate after an employee argued that a 2 PM to 10 PM shift can offer a better way to manage the day. The opinion has divided users, with some appreciating the freedom of having the morning…
When Theodore Roosevelt went camping: The trip that helped establish a vast national park A three-day camping trip in Yosemite became one of the most famous excursions in America’s conservation history. In May 1903, Theodore Roosevelt went camping in Yosemite with naturalist John Muir. The two hiked, caught cold weather on the last night of…
Image Courtesy: The Washington Post A family heirloom that had survived a dangerous journey out of the then-Soviet Union nearly a century ago ended up at the bottom of a New York garbage pile. For Victor, 45, letting it disappear was not an option. His wife Susanna had accidentally thrown two rings into the trash…
Making roti dough seems simple until the atta starts sticking to your hands. The more you knead, the more it seems to cling to your fingers. Adding extra dry flour may make the surface easier to handle, but it can also make the dough firm and affect the roti’s texture. There are better ways to…
