Visual artist Craig Boehman: ‘Mumbai has been the most warm and welcoming place on the streets’
Mumbai-based American fine-artist, who specialises in street photography, is releasing a limited-edition run of fine-art prints, Aksa Collection, shot on Aksa Beach, this week.
My Family and Other Globalizers | Couples around the world are choosing not to have kids. And yet...
So much of the joy of parenting can't be captured in words.
Your Driver is Waiting book review: A debut novel influenced by Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver
Many films have been inspired by novels. Priya Guns’s Your Driver is Waiting is inspired by a film.
Funnycontrol | On International Women's Day 2023, a look at gender parity in unusual places
Corporate fraud, jail time for mommies and advertisements that spark more conversation than sales.
International Women's Day 2023 | India's first female Sarpanch with an MBA: 'Rural development is not an urban myth'
Chhavi Rajawat, India's first female Sarpanch with an MBA degree, narrates the story of change in Soda panchayat in Tonk district of Rajasthan.
Gaming in India: Being a woman in a largely male world
6 women gamers on how they are fighting gender stereotypes, one game at a time.
Women's Day 2023 | Walking in a man’s world
Women have been told time and again that walking alone on the streets is dangerous. Even in modern metropolitan cities in India, women lack safety
Women’s Day 2023: Bullet-proof fabric, and 19 more cool inventions by women
Windshield wiper, disposable diapers, aquarium, Word processor, ironing board – all these and several other everyday things were invented by women. On Women’s Day, let’s remember these inventors.
Funnycontrol | The Holi in the markets
Somewhere between the red and the blue in the days of 1994-96 to red and green on my mobile trading app today, we all grew up.
How India's first female MBA sarpanch Chhavi Rajawat transformed Rajasthan's Soda village
Rural development is not an urban myth, India's first female sarpanch with an MBA degree, Chhavi Rajawat narrates the story of change in Rajasthan's Soda panchayat during her two terms, 2010-15 and 2015-20, thereby paving the way for more women sarpanch to emerge.
How is AI revolutionizing waste management?
The World Bank predicts that from 2020-50, yearly waste handling will increase by 73 percent to reach around 3.88 billion tonnes. As we try to make the world cleaner, it's clear that AI will be a crucial part of how we deal with trash.
Not a Dal moment: With prices of pulses soaring, what protein alternatives to consume
Protein powerhouses and an integral part of the Indian diet, dals have been the most cost-effective, pocket-friendly source of protein. But with dals becoming expensive what are the other affordable alternatives?
Waiting for the definitive COVID fiction
Fiction gives voice to the marginal, the peripheral, and the subaltern in ways that history doesn’t or can’t. None of the books, in the last couple of years, with COVID as the backdrop, seems to adequately convey the pain and the agony of those nightmarish days.
Hogwarts Legacy game review: Everything you need to know about the game that broke the Internet this Feb
Hogwarts Legacy offers the Harry Potter game that people have dreamed of playing for years. The game packs 60+ hours of content.
My Family and Other Globalizers | Women's Day: Create a pause for thought for your children
It's not boys' fault that they are born male, but it's important to make them self-aware of their privilege which comes with certain responsibilities for creating change. Start the education early on.
Procera Gin and 4 more spirits to sample this summer
Coconut and cashew feni, a rum made in Aurangabad, a Japanese whisky, a gin with botanicals like Somalian acacia honey and mace from Zanzibar, and a tequila made with Blue agave from Jalisco.
This Women's Day, and every day, say no to mansplainers
Mansplaining has serious impact on those who are subjected to it, the impact is much larger than we realise. Even women are guilty of it.
This Indian city is where most gulal is made, one company alone produces 6,000 tonnes
The sleepy town of Hathras in Uttar Pradesh is the hub of gulal manufacturing in India, and Radha Kishan Color World alone makes over 6,000 tonnes of gulal every year, for the festival of Holi, to export to the US and European markets and for Bollywood.
International Women's Day 2023 | Carpe diem, women tell women
From pay parity to a sense of safety, women are fighting the good fight to secure their future.
How Gujiya, the favourite Holi sweet, colonised most of India
The origins and types of Gujiya, differences between the Turkish baklava and Indian gujiya, and where to buy the best gujiya in Delhi, Thanjavur, Vrindavan, Mathura, Jaipur, and Mumbai.
Did you know the final resting place of Ruttie Jinnah, wife of Pakistan’s founder, is in Mumbai?
Ruttie Jinnah is buried at the Shia Ishna Ashari Jamaat Arambaug in Byculla, Mumbai. Ask the caretaker is to point you to Jinnah bhai’s bride and chances are he will escort you there himself.
How books on failure are basically books about success
And why both books about success and failure have inherent limitations, and very limited uses.
World Obesity Day: Eight tips to reduce weight, control diabetes and fight obesity
March 4 is observed globally as World Obesity Day. Eating healthy carbs, including more fibre in diet, not skipping breakfast, and exercising regularly have become critically important ingredients to include in our daily routines to protect us from the diabesity phenomenon
World Wildlife Day: 10 best national parks and forests in India
March 3 is World Wildlife Day and what better way to celebrate it than to explore some of India’s best wildlife parks. We tell you where to go and what to do.
