There is something about the way grandparents talk to children that feels different. They may listen to the same story for the tenth time, answer endless questions, tell stories from a world the child has never seen and, sometimes, simply sit beside them without asking anything at all.It is easy to dismiss these moments as … Read more
Love and hate often go hand in hand when it comes to food. While some dishes are celebrated as cultural treasures in one part of the world, they can leave others wrinkling their noses in disbelief. In fact, global food platform TasteAtlas, which compiles millions of user ratings for traditional dishes, has repeatedly shown that … Read more
It sounds almost like an urban myth until it happens to someone you know: a car that “feels off” while driving turns out to have a python coiled around the engine, or a scooter parked outside a shop turns out to have a snake tucked into its bodywork. Cases like these get reported across India … Read more
For some people, the dream isn’t a bigger apartment, a faster car or a life in the middle of a busy city. It’s a small house surrounded by trees, a quiet morning, a cup of tea in the balcony, familiar faces passing by and enough space to hear birds instead of traffic. They imagine growing … Read more
For a new mother, seeing breast milk that looks yellow one day, almost bluish the next or faintly pink in the bottle can be startling. Is the milk still safe?The reassuring answer is that breast milk does not have one fixed colour. Its appearance can change with the stage of lactation, the amount of fat … Read more
Indian Ambassador Rudra Gaurav Shresth’s Farsi farewell from Tehran goes viral A farewell video from India’s outgoing Ambassador to Iran, Rudra Gaurav Shresth, has caught attention on social media after he chose Farsi for his final message from Tehran. After more than three years in the country, Shresth thanked the people and colleagues who were … Read more
A few days ago, the Assam government proposed to reduce Kaziranga National Park’s Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) from 10 km to just 1 km in the name of urban development. Now this proposal has raised an important and sensitive question for travellers and wildlife lovers: how can one of India’s most important wildlife parks and tiger … Read more
3 years later, she earns twice as much A career change does not always begin with a better offer. Sometimes, it starts with choosing an uncertain path simply because the work feels more fulfilling. For Mehar Verma, that meant stepping away from a career in law and giving content creation a serious chance.Her decision came … Read more
Optical illusion personality tests trick the brain and eyes into believing what they see first despite the many objects hidden in the photo, based on what is seen first, and this particular illusion is a variation of what’s known as Rubin’s Vase, developed by Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin around 1915. It happens because your brain … Read more
One man, a barren sandbar and decades of patience: How Jadav “Molai” Payeng created the forest that made him India’s Forest Man. PC: OneEarth A forest does not usually begin with one person, one patch of barren land and a few saplings. But in Assam, that is almost how the story of Jadav “Molai” Payeng … Read more