Brain teasers often trick the viewer’s eyes into believing what they see, while also examining their attention to detail. The setting in the image looks quite simple, showing a lively night market scene with fairy lights strung overhead and three stalls lined up side by side. One person is kneading dough at a bread stall,…
Placing a money plant in harsh, direct sunlight, especially during peak afternoon hours, is one of the fastest ways to stress it. The plant is naturally suited to the dappled, filtered light of a forest understorey rather than open, unshaded exposure, which means strong direct rays can quickly scorch its leaves, leaving them yellowed, crisped…
For Avinash Rathod, life changed in a matter of seconds. A routine day at a construction site turned into a life-threatening accident that left him without both hands. But what followed was not a story of giving up. It was a story of fear, family, faith and the determination to begin again. Rathod shared his…
Paramlal Kori, a 30-year-old welder, was one of the victims of the PG collapse. (Photo courtesy: Story Lives) For Paramlal Kori’s five-year-old son, his father has not died. His mother has told him that his father has gone far away for work. Paramlal, a 37-year-old welder from Harpalpur in Madhya Pradesh, was working in the…
Ali spent his youth as a daily wage worker in Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh. There was a time when Ishtiaq Ali returned home with the idols he had made, only to be told that they would not help run the household. Today, the 85-year-old artist from Kakori in Lucknow is drawing attention for carving Lord…
Matt Damon, Christopher Nolan and Tom Holland had chai and bun maska at Mumbai’s Olympia Coffee House Just two months ago, Mumbai’s Olympia Coffee House was in the spotlight for a very different reason.Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon and Tom Holland had dropped in at the 108-year-old Colaba eatery during their India visit for the premiere…
For some people, standing in front of a crowd and speaking clearly can feel surprisingly difficult. They may know exactly what they want to say, understand the subject well and even feel confident while speaking to one person, yet suddenly struggle when dozens of eyes are on them. Psychology suggests that this does not automatically…
The idea came to the teens when Jayanta ate a thekua at his friend kailash’s house. “I ate it and thought, ‘This is something you get only once a year. Why not sell it?’” For 17-year-old Jayanta and his friend Kailash, teenagers from West Bengal, what began with a thought after tasting thekua during Chhath…
This is where the counterintuitive part comes in: starting too large is genuinely worse than starting small. A pot around 10 to 14 inches wide, roughly 12 inches being the most commonly recommended starting point, suits a young nursery-sized plant properly, since a pot much bigger than the root ball holds excess soil that stays…
A flood-relief effort in Bihar took an unexpected turn when a crowd surrounded volunteers distributing fruits, with people seen scrambling to grab the supplies.A video of the incident has surfaced on social media, showing volunteers trying to manage the crowd as the situation becomes increasingly chaotic. Sahaj Duggal, president of the NGO Har Maidan Fateh…
