Elon Musk with his mother Maye Musk. For some children, a bookstore is just another place in a shopping mall. For the world’s richest person Elon Musk, it was where his mother knew she would find him. Maye Musk has recalled that when her children were young, Elon would sometimes disappear while they were at…

Dr. Ganesh is now working as a medical officer at Sir Takhtasinhji General Hospital in Bhavnagar. When Ganesh Baraiya was around 10, a circus troupe came to his home in Gujarat with an unusual offer. They wanted to take him away and offered his farmer father ₹5 lakh. Baraiya was born with dwarfism and was…

The expat said he noticed that conversations could quickly move beyond the usual introductions. (Image: AI-representation) Moving to a new country for work often means adjusting to a different routine, food, language and way of doing things. For one European expat who moved to India, however, one of the more unexpected differences emerged not at…

There was no expensive toy, no carefully planned activity and no adults telling them what to do. Just two six-year-olds, a pile of wooden boards, and a vivid imagination. The children had transformed the boards into a bridge over an imaginary river filled with crocodiles. They invented rules, negotiated turns, argued, laughed and solved problems…