DIY home hack: How aluminium foil can help you check moisture on damp walls That damp patch creeping across a bedroom wall raises an annoying question most people can’t answer just by looking at it: is this simply humidity condensing on a cold surface, or is water actually working its way through the wall from…
Neem Karoli Baba (Photo: @Dharmsena_1) Some words linger a little longer and touch those parts of our hearts and minds where ordinary advice cannot reach.Such are the words of Neem Karoli Baba, popularly known as Maharaj ji, a 20th-century Guru and qa devoted follower of Lord Hanuman, who has guided numerous Westerners and big names…
How to tell if cinnamon is real or fake: 6 simple checks you can do at home (PC: AI Generated) Cinnamon may look like a simple kitchen spice, but not every product sold under the name has the same identity. The two most familiar types are Ceylon cinnamon, or Cinnamomum verum, often called ‘true cinnamon’,…
For generations, Iceland offered travellers something almost unimaginable in much of the world: spectacular lakes, bluest lagoons and black sand beaches; all this without the persistent buzz and bite of mosquitoes. But this unusual distinction ended in October 2025, when Björn Hjaltason discovered not one but three mosquitoes in a garden in Kjós, a rural…
A routine trip to a field in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi turned frightening for 21-year-old Arun after a snake hiding inside a sack of grass bit him.What happened next was even more dramatic. As Arun’s condition began to worsen, his elder brother Akash rushed him to hospital and, following instructions from doctors, kept trying to stop…
Traveller from Bhutan reviews Vande Bharat (Instagram) A train can be super impressive on its first day of inauguration but the real test comes months later. It comes after hundreds and thousands of passengers have travelled in those initially shiny compartments on countless journeys. And that’s exactly what this Bhutanese traveller named Anusha, known as…
The illusion of longing It is an exceedingly common scenario encountered within the therapeutic space: a client laments the painful, lingering end of a past relationship, romantic or platonic, entirely convinced that their ongoing, obsessive grief is definitive proof of the other person’s irreplaceable nature. They endlessly dissect old text messages, replay decades-old memories like…
On humid days, clothes may hang for hours and still feel cold and damp. The problem is not always the temperature. The fabric needs to release its moisture before it can dry. High humidity slows this evaporation. It is noted that clothes can sometimes dry faster on a cold, dry day than on a warm,…
Moving to India has given one young girl an unexpected problem: figuring out how to say Indian words without her American accent getting in the way.Her mother, Pragnya Narendra, shared the funny exchange on Instagram, where she tried helping her daughter pronounce words such as “Chithra” and “Bengaluru.”In the video, Narendra explains that one of…
A burnt iron pan can be difficult to clean, especially when food has hardened onto its surface. Food may be stuck to the bottom in a thick black layer, while the surface underneath can appear dull and rough. But that burnt food does not always mean the pan is ruined. With the right approach, the…
