Every year, as schools reopen, many parents return to a familiar routine. New textbooks and notebooks are bought, names are written on the first page and the books are carefully covered with brown paper. For some families, this is simply a practical way of protecting schoolbooks. But for others, the habit may have become something…
Chennai-based investment adviser Muthukrishnan Dhandapani has sparked an online discussion after sharing his concerns about the possibility of difficult economic conditions in the future. In a post on X on September 29, Dhandapani clarified that he was not claiming to predict an upcoming crisis. Instead, he said he had been highlighting possible risks for the…
We all have that one friend who finishes writing the email; it’s just three lines long, and nothing in it is risky. But then they read it once, then again, then change one word, then change it back. They hover the cursor over send again and again before sending, imagining what could go wrong! Work…
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is a global icon who began her career in Indian cinema, became one of Bollywood’s best-known faces, and later built a name in Hollywood too. She juggles her life between two huge industries with so much ease, even though her life stretches across continents. She is married to American singer Nick Jonas,…
Robotics company Figure has used an unusual approach to retire much of its F.02 humanoid robot fleet, sending the machines into a 75-ton electric arc furnace at a foundry in Imatra, Finland.(Image: Figure/Screenshot) What do you do when your humanoid robots have become outdated?Apparently, you melt them.US robotics company Figure has given its retired F.02…
‘Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai’: Israeli-American singer learns Shah Rukh Khan song to honour ‘brave’ Captain Smit MachchharSometimes a thank-you doesn’t need a long speech.For Israeli-American musician Itay Benda, it came in the form of a Hindi song he had never performed before. After Captain Smit Machchhar was injured while trying to stop an alleged…
Aravind Srinivas, CEO and cofounder of Perplexity AI. Imagine missing your dream course by just 0.01. That is exactly what happened to Aravind Srinivas, a young student from Chennai. After getting into IIT Madras for engineering, he tried to switch to another branch after his first semester, fell short of the cut-off by the tiniest…
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (Photo via Canva) Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, and he created nearly 2,100 artworks in just a decade, including around 860 oil paintings, most from the last two years of his life. Even today, after so many years, he is well known for his unique bold…
Simran Irshad has developed ‘Grass Mâché’ using weeds removed from Dal Lake. (Photo courtesy: Kashmir Life) For years, the weeds and vegetation removed from Dal Lake were simply something to be cleared away. For Srinagar artisan Simran Irshad, however, they became a possible answer to two problems at once – the growing cost of paper…
Most of us remember the first time we heard a snake hiss. It’s a sound that seems to skip thinking altogether. The body freezes, the heart jumps, and the immediate instinct is to run away! Snakes are those slithering venomous creatures, which one would rarely want to encounter, and spotting them sends chills down a…
