Kanak Agarwal (PC: Instagram) Travel stories generally have a similar ending. There is a last day, last sunset, one last meal, a hurried airport transfer. Some photographs from the aircraft window of the clouds and then, back to home and the same old routine. But sometimes, did you ever think that sometimes, the most complicated…
A story of courage, determination, and choosing an unconventional path has emerged from Greater Noida, where former engineer Upendra Singh has traded his corporate career for a humble grilled sandwich cart. After spending two years working as a private engineer at an MNC, Singh decided to leave his job and start something of his own,…
Driving a cab as a side hustle might not sound particularly glamorous. But one Uber Black driver in Bengaluru has people online looking at the job a little differently after revealing that he made more than ₹46,000 in a week.Instagram user Hamtor Debbarma recently shared a video showing what he described as a “normal day”…
Kodinhi in Kerala is known for its unusually high twin births. (Photo: Undiscovered Indian Treasures) There are places you visit for their beaches, backwaters and misty hills. And then there is Kodinhi, a quiet village in Kerala’s Malappuram district. At first glance, Kodinhi looks much like any other Kerala village- lush greenery, narrow roads, homes,…
For one Indian man living in the US, a trip to the dentist came with a bill he definitely wasn’t expecting.Nitin Malhotra, who has lived in the United States for around 15 years, recently shared his experience on Instagram after going to a dentist with a painful tooth. What shocked him wasn’t just the treatment…
Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts seemed like the kind of Hollywood pairing that could only happen in a movie. One was already a beloved sitcom star, the other was one of the biggest actresses in the world. Yet for a brief moment in the mid-1990s, the two really were together. Their relationship began in an…
At 17, Siddhartha Manaktala developed EyeSpy- the smartphone app can screen for 7 eye diseases For most teenagers, weekends mean catching up with friends, playing games or simply getting away from schoolwork. For Siddhartha Manaktala, they have increasingly meant something else: travelling to government schools, villages and factories, setting up eye-screening camps and trying to…
Why a Bengaluru man calls ₹2 lakh a month the ‘most dangerous’ salary A ₹2 lakh monthly salary is often seen as a major career milestone. But a Bengaluru man has sparked a different conversation around the figure, asking whether reaching that level of income can sometimes make people less willing to make bold career…
When seven-year-old Emily Heaton told her father Jeremiah that she wanted to be a real-life princess, he, like other dads, did not laugh the request away or told her that princesses existed only in fairy tales. Instead, he took her request quite seriously and started researching whether there was anywhere on Earth that was not…
Elon Musk has often spoken about big, ambitious ideas, and one thought he keeps returning to is simple but powerful: life cannot only be about fixing one problem after another. According to Musk, the world is full of difficult and painful things happening all the time, issues that genuinely need attention and solutions. But he…