Life & Style

The three-tier wooden pagoda stands about 21.2 cm tall and contains a cavity designed to hold a scroll bearing a Buddhist prayer. (Photo courtesy: REBPAF) A miniature wooden pagoda commissioned by a Japanese empress around 770 CE has sold for $40,960 at Christie’s, fetching nearly 2.8 times its highest estimate. The object, which contains an…

A tourist out for a walk on a nature trail in Thailand noticed something odd stamped into a flat patch of rock. The deep marks looked suspiciously like dinosaur footprints, so he snapped a photo and uploaded it to Facebook to see if anyone in his local group agreed. He probably wasn’t expecting much –…

When actress Sameera Reddy moved from Mumbai to Goa, she didn’t just change cities, she changed her whole way of living. In a home tour she shared on YouTube, she gives a glimpse of the lush, fruit-filled garden that surrounds her bungalow, and it’s easy to see why she says she is “just gardening all…

Amar Kale making his art (amar_kale_artist/Instagram) The world is brimming with incredibly talented people. And Karnataka’s Amar Kale is one such artist who has created history with his out-of-the-box thinking. When most people reach for turmeric and chilli powder for cooking, Kale, a 29-year-old artist from South India, created an art piece telling a story…

You plant something pretty, it grows beautifully, and a year or two later your neighbour is knocking on the door to politely ask why it’s now coming up in their lawn. Plants don’t read property deeds. Some of the most popular garden choices spread through underground stems, runners or climbing growth, and they cheerfully cross…

Photo: charulatha_remesh/ Instagram Few cricketers have been talked about as much as Sanju Samson this year, as his batting lit up the T20 World Cup in March, where he was named Player of the Tournament as India lifted the trophy on home soil. But beyond their presence on the field, these cricketers also have an…

Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, playwright, novelist, and one of the most celebrated wits of Victorian London. He wrote the play The Importance of Being Earnest and…

Location: Across the Sahyadri ranges | UNESCO inscription: 2012 The rich biodiversity of the Western Ghats is recognised as being of outstanding universal value as a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the natural category. The region is one of the world’s eight hottest hotspots of biological diversity, making it an ecologically sensitive area. Older than…

Sometimes, the things that drain us the most are not our responsibilities but our need to control how everything turns out. We want people to understand us, plans to work out and relationships to remain exactly as they are. And when life takes a different turn, it can leave us feeling disappointed or anxious. Non-attachment…

Photo: MacKenzie Scott/ X MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced $7.1 billion in new donations on December 9, 2025. Among them was $60 million for the Global Methane Hub, which funds projects to reduce methane, according to Fortune.Methane gas is not visible, nor can it be smelled. Yet it slips…