There’s a specific kind of disappointment reserved for reaching into the fruit bowl for a lemon and finding it’s gone soft, wrinkled, or worse, spotted with mould at the base, especially when you’re fairly sure you bought it just last week. Lemons have a reputation for looking sturdy but actually being fairly high-maintenance; once you…

Some success stories begin with big dreams. PC Musthafa’s began with a school dropout, a poor family, and a child who had to work to help his father earn money. Growing up in Chennalode near Kalpetta in Kerala’s Wayanad district, Musthafa came from a family that struggled to make ends meet. His father worked as…

You know this kid. Maybe it’s yours. At home, they narrate everything, what the dog is doing, why their sandwich got cut wrong, an entire retelling of a cartoon episode with sound effects. But then you pick them up from school, and the teacher tells you they said maybe three words all day, and mostly…

A four-hour train ride from Delhi to Jaipur turned into an unexpected surprise for a British travelling family of five travelling across the country. Known as Hutchinson family (The Hutchinsons), the woman shared her experience aboard the Vande Bharat Express on social media, describing the journey as “pretty pleasant”.In the video, she says, ‘We nearly…

For many employees, a manager who does not call on weekends, a five-day work week and paid overtime would sound less like a workplace complaint and more like a dream. But for an Indian professional living in Japan, these are precisely the “problems” he jokingly says have made his working life so difficult.Ajay Pandey, an…