An artist from Gujarat is winning hearts and also making records for her intricate recreation of one of India’s most celebrated architectural monuments Rani ki vav. Meet Payal Kintu Thakkar who has earned a place in the India Book of Records. So it’s not her artwork but the materials used to create it which makes…
A tomato that does not make it to the market is usually treated as waste. It may be too discoloured, too soft or unsuitable for food processing. But what if these rejected tomatoes could be given a second life, not as food, but as a material used to make bags, shoes and fashion accessories? That…
K.R. Usha Kumari travelled by boat (Instagram) Women like K.R. Usha Kumari is not born everyday. Born in Kerala in 1968, she became a legendary teacher. Everyday, she would set out from her home in Amboori, Kerala, with a journey ahead of her that was far from an ordinary commute. She rode her two-wheeler to…
Imagine running the kitchen at a fine-dining hotspot that just got picked for the Michelin Guide, serving up elaborate plates to high-paying guests, and then turning around to quit your job and sell chole bhature out of a tiny takeaway joint. Sounds like a total risk, right? But Indian chef Pradeep Khullar did exactly that…
You’ve probably seen it, or done it yourself. A droopy plant sits beside a bin, a pot lies abandoned on the pavement, and something inside you says, “I can’t just leave it.” According to research published on PubMed Central, the US National Institutes of Health’s free archive of biomedical studies, there are real psychological reasons…
A courtroom may look calm from the visitors’ gallery, but behind the proceedings is a demanding routine involving lengthy files, repeated hearings, witness statements and careful examination of evidence. The work does not end when a judge leaves the courtroom either. There are orders to prepare, records to review and cases to be readied for…
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We often encounter history in the most unusual ways, without even realising to have come across one of those pieces hidden in plain sight.One such incident happened when a small piece of carved marble sat on a dining room shelf in Chile for decades, and its owner told visitors it was a fragment of the…
Representational image: Canva A two-page document from childhood has brought back memories for some adults and started a debate among parents about how much responsibility children should have at home.The document was shared by an Instagram Threads user, @fatcarl_sp, who posted a picture of the chore list his father had prepared for him when he…
Optical illusion brain teasers are mind-bending images that trick the brain and eyes into believing what a person sees first. What makes these mind tricks more interesting is that the answer is always hidden right there. Nothing is missing from the picture. The object is in plain sight, and our eyes, which are usually so…
