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Sachin Tendulkar reveals his fav home-cooked dishes (Instagram) Gods also miss their mom’s home-cooked meals. Today the Lord of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar took to Instagram and revealed his favorite Maharashtrian meal cooked by his mother. For someone who has spent decades travelling across the world and winning some of cricket’s biggest tournaments, the most memorable…

Imagine a school that needs extra classrooms, a clinic waiting for more space, or a remote community that cannot afford to wait months for a building. What if some of these structures could be manufactured in factories, transported to the required location and assembled far more quickly than conventional construction?This is the problem Chennai-based startup…

At an age when most children are still learning to string sentences together, a toddler from Karnataka is already making a name for herself on the tabla. Swarshri Hegde, who is just 2 years and 10 months old, has found a place in the India Book of Records for reciting and playing 12 taals on…

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…

Photo: @karisha.vlogs/ Instagram Most of us see our own country through the same everyday lens. We know the crowds, the noise and the delays, and we learn to live with them. But when an outsider appreciates the little details about our own country, it feels different.A Lithuanian traveller named Karisha is exploring India with her…

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…