Walk into any nursery or scroll through an online seed store, and it’s easy to get swept up in the sheer variety on offer: glossy packets promising bumper tomato harvests, towering sunflowers, and sprawling cucumber vines. The trouble is that a lot of what’s sold for a full backyard garden simply isn’t built for life…
Photo: Instagram/@sohailkhanofficial Divorce may end a marriage, but it does not end parenthood. And sometimes, one of the most important things separated parents can do for their children is to stop trying to win against each other.Actor Sohail Khan’s recent comments about co-parenting with his former wife Seema Sajdeh offer a simple but important reminder:…
Quote of the day by Sadhguru (Photo: @SadhguruJV/ X) Life has its ways of testing us and then landing us in a pool of surprises. For a moment, it might seem that everything is going our way, and the next, an unexpected challenge comes up- maybe a job loss, a health issue, a difficult conversation,…
You pick up a packet of milk or paneer from the refrigerator and notice something odd: the normally flat pack looks inflated, tight or balloon-like. The expiry date is still days away, so is it actually safe to eat? The short answer: a visibly swollen or puffed packet is a warning sign and is best…
Photos: Instagram/@anushkasharma Motherhood often changes the questions a woman asks herself. The decisions that once revolved around ambition, work or personal priorities can begin to include a much bigger consideration: What feels right for my child and my family?For actor Anushka Sharma, becoming a mother appears to have brought another, less-discussed shift- a stronger belief…
Image Courtesy: The Washington Post A family heirloom that had survived a dangerous journey out of the then-Soviet Union nearly a century ago ended up at the bottom of a New York garbage pile. For Victor, 45, letting it disappear was not an option. His wife Susanna had accidentally thrown two rings into the trash…
Image Courtesy: Chess Base India It was an unusual Tuesday evening at the Sawai household in Delhi. Their 15-year-old son Vandan Alankar Sawai had played an online chess tournament, but there was no announcement, no excited phone call to friends and no dramatic celebration. In fact, Vandan had not even told his parents whom he…
It was supposed to be a simple evening out. Sonam Midha, an Indian woman living in Japan, had gone to a restaurant with a friend on rented bicycles. Before walking in, she tucked her purse into the bicycle basket outside, a casual, thoughtless moment of the kind we all have dozens of times a day….
Scroll through enough laundry hack content online, and you’ll eventually come across someone tossing a crumpled ball of aluminium foil straight into their washing machine, claiming it’s the secret to softer, static-free clothes without a single dryer sheet in sight. It’s an offshoot of a genuinely older, more established trick involving the dryer, but the…
There is a moment in Apexa Rajput’s story that stops you completely. The bank officials came and sealed the door of her family’s home in their small village in Maharashtra, a padlock on the place where a family should have been living. The debt had grown too large for two agricultural labourers earning just Rs…