A playful vegetarian take on keema pav, this preparation turns paneer into a coarse, juicy filling served with toasted pav. Ranveer Brar’s version also uses peas, tomatoes and a freshly roasted spice mix. Recipe: Fry 250g paneer cubes lightly and crumble them. Sauté onion, ginger-garlic-green chilli paste and tomato puree in ghee. Add turmeric, chilli…
For most working professionals, a bigger salary has long been treated as the ultimate marker of doing well in life. Every hike, promotion, or job change tends to feel like proof that things are moving in the right direction. But a recent social media post pushes back on that idea, asking whether the endless pursuit…
The simple batter trick that helps make perfect chillas every time Few breakfast disappointments sting quite like watching a perfectly good besan chilla fall apart the moment you try to flip it. One second you have a smooth golden circle setting nicely in the pan, and the next you are looking at a torn, crumpled…
Every morning, while most people his age may prefer to stay indoors and rest, an 80-year-old man in West Bengal steps outside with a broom in his hands. For him, cleaning the roads of his village is not a job but a responsibility he has followed for seven decades. Known as Ashok Dada, he has…
For some parents, an old toy can be much harder to throw away than an unused household item. A faded teddy bear, a broken toy car, a worn-out doll or an old board game may have little practical use, especially after a child has grown up. Yet parents may keep these objects carefully packed away…
This is the source most people never think to check, and it’s often the actual root of the problem. Bathroom drains typically contain a P-trap or floor trap designed to hold a small amount of water and block sewer gas from coming back up, and if organic debris builds up in that trapped water, it…
Chintakindi Mallesham invented the Laxmi Asu machine for Pochampally saree weavers It all started when Chintakindi Mallesham’s mother said “I can’t weave anymore. My hands have worn out.” A saree may take pride of place in a wardrobe, but for the woman who helps make it, the beauty of the finished six-yard fabric can come…
What started with thousands of discarded plastic bottles has turned into something much more personal for a couple in Bangladesh.Rashedul Alam and Asma Khatun, a couple from a remote village in Lalmonirhat district, have built a house almost entirely out of used plastic bottles. But this isn’t simply an experiment in recycling. The 1,700-square-foot home…
Pierce Brosnan is a renowned actor, most popularly known across the globe for playing the character of James Bond in four films through the 1990s and early 2000s. But originally, the actor wanted to be a painter.After leaving school, he trained as a commercial artist and illustrator at a small studio in South London, having…
There is a strange thing about long-term relationships. In the beginning, attraction can be all about the obvious things: the way someone looks across a room, the excitement of getting dressed for a date, and the butterflies before meeting them. Years later, those things may still matter, but something else starts taking their place. You…
