There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with spotting a stink bug clinging to your curtain or crawling along a windowsill, mostly because everyone knows exactly what happens if you make the mistake of squashing it. As temperatures start dropping through fall, these mottled brown pests go into full house-hunting mode, searching for somewhere…
There’s a particular kind of joy that arrives with a newborn, the kind that rearranges everything that came before it, priorities, routines, entire ways of seeing the world, almost overnight. For a lot of parents, naming a child after that feeling isn’t sentimental so much as it is simply accurate, a way of putting into…
PM Modi hosted Swiss President Guy Parmelin to a specially curated lunch at Hyderabad House, where familiar Indian flavours met Swiss ingredients in an unusual fusion menu. Source link
A child’s repeated face-touching may be more than just a habit. A child is telling you about something that happened at school. They are talking quickly, jumping from one detail to another, and somewhere in the middle of the conversation, their hand reaches for your face. They touch your cheek, trace your eyebrow, hold your…
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (Photo via Canva) Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, and he created nearly 2,100 artworks in just a decade, including around 860 oil paintings, most from the last two years of his life. Even today, after so many years, he is well known for his unique bold…
Some days do not have anything particularly special about them. No big achievement, no exciting plan, no reason to celebrate. You wake up, check your phone, go to work, come home, eat something and eventually fall asleep. But perhaps a meaningful life is not built only around big moments. Sometimes, it is the small things…
Located on the Mandovi River in Goa, near the Goa-Karnataka border, the name of this majestic waterfall itself means “Sea of Milk”. The meaning becomes clear, when the fall turns especially milky white during the monsoon season, when torrents of water plunge down the rocky landscape. Dudhsagar is a four-tiered waterfall with a total height…
Maria Branyas Morera celebrating her 117th birthday (Wiki) María Branyas Morera died at the age of 117 years and 168 days. But the findings from a 2025 study titled “The multiomics blueprint of the individual with the most extreme lifespan,” published in Cell Reports Medicine, in which an international team of researchers examined the genome,…
Image Courtesy: Instagram/@kalambemalhar What happens to a Ganesha idol after it is immersed during Ganpati visarjan? In Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, some of the idols are getting a second use as study tables, benches and other products for children. An initiative involving Mumbai environmentalist and Beach Please founder Malhar Kaalambe and Gujarat-based recycling expert Dr…
A lift is one of those places where people are forced to share a very small space with complete strangers. Most rides last only a few seconds, but basic manners can make a noticeable difference, especially when the lift is crowded. Some things are simply inconsiderate. Others can create genuine problems for people trying to…
