Scroll through enough home hack content lately and you’ll run into some version of this claim: lining your freezer with aluminium foil supposedly stops ice from sticking to the walls, making that dreaded defrosting chore almost effortless. It’s the kind of hack that sounds too simple to be true, a five-rupee roll of kitchen foil…
Rani Mukerji has always had a soft spot for Sabyasachi’s creations, and honestly, it’s easy to see why the combination works so well. At the designer’s Delhi store launch, the actress turned up in a cream silk saree that was understated, elegant and very much in keeping with her style.There was no need for an…
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…
At age 12, Bihar’s Satyam Kumar cracked IIT-JEE, one of India’s toughest competitive exams. At an age when most children are still getting used to secondary school, Satyam Kumar was preparing for one of India’s toughest entrance examinations. At 12, the boy from Bihar cracked the IIT-JEE. A year later, he returned to the exam…
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: 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…