5-year-old Noida boy Avyukt Singh with his certificate (PC: Guinness World Records) For most five-year-olds, eating with a spoon without spilling their meal is a normal thing. But at 5, Avyukt Singh from Noida was living in a world of dinosaurs that was everyday normal. He was so fascinated by the creatures from picture books,…
Jade plants like it moderate, roughly 10 to 24 degrees Celsius, and they don’t tolerate frost. If your plant is outside, bring it indoors before the first cold nights. Keep it away from cold window glass, draughty doors and radiators or heaters, which can scorch the leaves or dry them out. Sudden swings in temperature…
The internet loves a good running joke, but few memes have taken on a life of their own quite like Saif Ali Khan’s missing tub of cooking fat.If you’ve been anywhere near Indian social media over the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen the chaos surrounding the actor’s promised reward from his appearance on Kaun…
This is the most important step. Use this idea only with LED lights, which stay cool, and never on incandescent or hot bulbs. Nail polish can’t handle high temperatures, it’s not meant to go beyond about 60°C, and it’s flammable, so heat plus polish is a bad combination. Always unplug the lights while painting, work…
Every year, on Sharad Purnima, many Indian households prepare a bowl of kheer, cover it with a thin cloth and leave it under the full moon. By the next morning, the dessert is offered as prasad and shared with family members. For generations, this ritual has been part of the festival, but have you ever…
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, inventor, engineer, and scientist popularly known today for painting timeless pieces like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.Beyond art, he also filled thousands of pages of notebooks with sketches, studies of the human body, flying machines, and reflections on life.It is from these collections that words of…
If sentiment matters more than sound, look for a name that means the same thing as mom’s. A mother named Chandni, which means moonlight, could choose Chandra or Indu, both names for the moon. A mother named Divya, meaning divine or radiant, might pick Tejas, meaning brilliance. The link is quiet, because it isn’t obvious…
You are getting ready for an important meeting and quietly rehearse what you want to say. You misplace your keys and mutter, “Where did I leave them?” Or, after a difficult conversation, you go over it aloud, trying to understand what went wrong. Talking to yourself may feel awkward when someone catches you doing it,…
Apple pie is one of those flavours that feels like a warm hug, but the real thing needs pastry, butter, sugar and a lot of patience. These cookies capture the same cosy taste using just four pantry staples, and they come together in a single bowl in about ten minutes of hands-on time. There’s no…
There was a time when you could not wait to talk to this person. You looked forward to their messages, imagined a future together and felt excited about where the relationship was going. But somewhere along the way, things started feeling different. You may still care about them, but the relationship no longer feels the…
