Prince Harry posing with a children book (PC: Instagram/@princeharryofengland) Becoming a parent is probably one of the happiest moments of one’s life. The moment you become a parent, your own childhood starts to look different. You may not remember your first step but you can’t forget the times you needed a hug but did not…
Photo credit: assam.mygov.in At 15, Tileswar Handique was working as a daily-wage labourer in Assam, earning Rs 6 a day to help support his family. Then, one afternoon in 1979, a stranger offered him Rs 24 for a bunch of bananas, twice the prevailing market price. The sale gave him something to think about on…
Florida’s warm, humid climate is a gardener’s dream, but it also helps some ornamental plants grow far beyond where they were planted. Many were chosen for bright flowers, fast growth and toughness, and those same traits let them escape through seeds, runners and hungry birds into wetlands, forests and roadsides. There, they crowd out native…
It is a popular belief that wedding cards, elders’ blessings, and film songs all carry the same promise, that matches are made in heaven. It sounds warm and romantic. It also silently sets up big expectations that the marriage will work because fate arranged it.But real-life incidents are quite different from what we imagine, and…
AI representation/ChatGPT “Please don’t tell Mum.” “Dad doesn’t need to know.” A child may make these requests after getting an extra treat, breaking something by accident or sharing information they are not ready for the other parent to hear. It can leave a parent wondering whether the child is simply looking for privacy, trying to…
Rehan Raza with his invention. (Photo courtesy: The New Indian Express) For someone who cannot see, taking the right medicine at the right time can involve more than remembering a prescription. Two tablets may look alike to a sighted person, but identifying them by touch can be equally difficult when their shapes or textures are…
Tim Cook remembers Steve Jobs When Steve Jobs handed over the reins of Apple to Tim Cook, he left him with a piece of advice that Cook has never forgotten. He told him not to spend time wondering what he would have done, but to focus on making the right decisions himself.“Never ask what I…
A toddler may sit quietly in front of a screen, eyes fixed on the moving images. But when a parent opens a picture book, points to an animal and talks about what is happening on the page, something different may be taking place in the child’s brain. A study by researchers at Northwestern University has…
Amy is not a model younger sister. She can be insensitive, impulsive and remarkably self-absorbed. That is exactly why her scenes work as comedy. Christina Applegate plays her with enough confidence and comic timing to make even her worst behaviour difficult to ignore. The deeper appeal lies in the familiarity of sibling dynamics. Sisters can…
Jasveer Singh Jassi and his wife, Sudha Kumari Sahu, run a vada pav cart in Noida. There are no news bulletins to prepare, no television studios to walk into and no newsroom deadlines to meet. Instead, their days revolve around preparing food, serving customers and ensuring that the business keeps running.For a couple who spent…
