Life & Style

Dalma, dressed in yellow, was seen putting flowers into her father’s socks as he sat on a football and watched her. In 1989, late football legend Diego Maradona arrived for a Napoli training session with a small gift tucked into his football socks. The gift being the daisies placed there by his two-year-old daughter, Dalma….

Optical illusion personality tests are interesting images that trick the brain and eyes into believing what a person sees first, depending on their focus, perspective, and thoughts running through a person’s head. What makes these pictures even more interesting is that your friend standing next to you might see entirely different objects than what you…

Choosing a name inspired by classic literature allows parents to celebrate stories and characters that have endured across generations. While Atticus, Oliver, Darcy, Edmond and Holden offer relatively practical options for everyday use, names such as Heathcliff, Huckleberry and Gatsby make more unusual choices. Each name brings its own history and associations, giving parents an…

For some patients, the biggest barrier to saving their eyesight is not the treatment itself. It is reaching a doctor before the condition becomes too serious. In parts of Gujarat, people living in remote villages may delay eye check-ups because of travel costs, limited awareness or difficulty accessing specialists. By the time they reach a…

For most children, a parent is simply someone who packs their lunch, helps with homework and shows up when needed. But for children of celebrities, there can be a surprising gap between the person they know at home and the public figure admired by millions. Sometimes, that gap closes not through a family conversation, but…

Image courtesy: @simply.asin Actor Asin Thottumkal and her husband, Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma, have taken a screen-free approach to raising their eight-year-old daughter, Arin Rayn Sharma. According to Rahul, their home has no television, and Arin has not been given access to mobile phones or other screens. Instead, books occupy a central place in her…

We have all been in situations where we stand in front of the mirror and see a small mark, an uneven eyebrow, a pore on the face, and it reminds us to fix it or check it one more time, and then we check again, and the cycle continuesA quick look turns into a long…

People often set aside sadness, anxiety or disappointment as they feel compelled to suppress these emotions to be socially acceptable. Whereas cheerfulness and positivity are expected, sadness or worry can feel awkward and out of place. This leads to people hiding their feelings and bottling up their emotions without dealing with them. A 2020 meta-analysis,…

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published a book that challenged the long-held belief that Earth stood at the centre of the universe. On October 20, 2026, a first edition of that work sold for $2.304 million at Sotheby’s in New York, more than twice its high estimate of $1 million. The book, ‘De revolutionibus orbium coelestium,’…

A toddler carrying a soft toy from the bedroom to the living room, insisting on taking it along during family outings or becoming upset when it is nowhere to be found may appear to be attached to a favourite plaything. But for some children, the object serves a purpose beyond entertainment: it offers familiarity, comfort…