David Bailey’s rare portrait of Princess Diana, taken in 1988 Just a couple days after the death anniversary of the iconic Princess of Wales, Diana, there’s another update to celebrate her legacy. On August 31, 1997 she lost her life to a tragic road accident…
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How Gloria Steinem Put The Feminist Movement Into The Hands Of Everyday Readers
How Gloria Steinem’s Books Changed The Language Of The Feminist Movement In 1978, Gloria Steinem asked readers to imagine something biologically impossible but socially revealing: what if men menstruated instead of women? Her answer was not that periods would remain embarrassing. She imagined the opposite.…
6 Books That Turn Awkward Small Talk Into Effortless Conversation
6 Books That Make Conversation Feel Effortless (Picture Credit – Amazon) Cicero noticed the gap two thousand years ago. The orators had their rulebooks, he wrote in 44 BC, yet conversation had none, so he set about drafting a few rules himself. Little has changed…
Bhujia and Namkeen Might Soon Go Off The Shelves As FSSAI Takes Action Against CG Foods
FSSAI has taken another blow in the series and this time, under the microscope, there’s bhujia and namkeen. On Thursday, the food authority of India directed CG Foods India to stop the production of their ‘veg bhuja namkeen’ after there many violations of rules were…
Meet Nikita Porwal: The Femina Miss India World 2024 Taking the Country to Miss World 2026
Meet Nikita Porwal: India’s delegate for Miss World 2026 (Credit: Instagram/nikitaporwal_) Pageants, contrary to popular perception, have never been just about beautiful faces and fit bodies. Every pageant queen that has managed to make her mark has had a deeply personal journey on their respective…
Remembering Janusz Korczak, The Teacher Whose Love For Children Outlived The Holocaust
Every year on Teachers’ Day, we talk about teachers who inspired us, pushed us to do better or simply showed up when we needed them. But there are only a few stories that capture the true meaning of a teacher’s duty like that of Janusz…
Bengal Raids Raise Alarms Ahead of Durga Puja: What to Look Out for Before Eating Street Food
How to eat out safely during Durga Puja 2026? (Credit: Unsplash) It truly is a scary time to be a foodie. If you thought the overwhelming headlines about food safety concerns was something only restricted to packaged food items, think again. Over the past 3…
Why The Title ‘Belonging’ May Be The Most Important Clue To Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir
Sonia Gandhi Named Her Memoir ‘Belonging’ For A Reason Worth Noticing A memoir can run to hundreds of pages, yet its author must first distil a whole life into a single word on the cover. Sonia Gandhi had a hard one to choose. Her book…
Why Does Everyone Have A Life-Changing Bond With Their English Teacher?
Bond with English teachers (Credits: Pinterest) English teachers, there’s something about them. Maybe it has to do with the language they teach, and the way, in most schools in India, there is a compulsion around speaking it. One can mess up with matras in Hindi,…
Book Review – Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story by Kishwar Desai
Jallianwala Bagh 1919 book review (Photograph: Zeutschel Omniscan 11/Nehru Memorial Museum) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 remains one of the bloodiest and most haunting chapters of India’s freedom struggle. Today more than a century later, the horror of that day still feels difficult to…