Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found that loneliness plays a large role in the decline so often associated with old age. The study followed 1,600 adults, with an average age of 71, despite controlling for socioeconomic status and health, the lonely consistently held higher mortality rates. Nearly 23% of lonely participants died within six years of the …

The old days are gone. No more is love compared to the pure and saintly thing that it is. Instead, relationships have become as dispensable as Kleenex tissues; people use and throw away the relationships after they are done soaking the mess. While this may sound harsh, it can be considered both as a negative and positive thing. The negative …

Anushka Sharma is in news for long now. From her marriage with an Indian Cricket skipper Virat Kohli in Italy, honeymoon in Finland. The couple hosted two receptions, one in Delhi and another one in Mumbai. Anushka was seen traveling with Virat to South Africa also for India series with South Africa. After long vacations and celebrations, Anushka is back …

Women are often considered to way more tolerant than men. They can take a lot more than men before a line is crossed. However, once the line is crossed, and the woman is done taking shit from a man, there is no changing her mind. While this is a general rule, it applies mostly to dating. Once a woman decides …

Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday night was awesome and first daughter Ivanka Trump was also one of the admirers of the speech and called it as “empowering” and “inspiring.” Ivanka expressed her views on Twitter and Twitteratis backslash with furious backlash. Trump tweeted her  approval on Monday night for the speech, and elevated everyone to “come together, …

Marlboro is one of the world’s leading brands of cigarettes and its makers Phillip Morris International have taken out a full-page ad in the newspapers of the UK saying that their New Year’s Resolution is to give up cigarettes. “It won’t be easy. But we are determined to turn our vision into a reality,” the ad says. The ad is in …

We are often told not to believe everything that we see on the internet. There are many people who put on masks, taking advantage of the anonymity to get attention. Most of us use Instagram and while scrolling through the feed or the explore page, we see many pictures of people with what seems like perfect lives and stunning bodies …

The memory is still very fresh in my mind when I got a call that my father had met with an accident and had suffered serious head injury. I felt my knees weakening & it was a bad dream coming true. I dropped everything then and there & immediately headed for Dehradun, where he was being taken for treatment after …

Medhavi Davda was only 16 when she first fell in love with the mighty Himalayas. It was her first high-altitude trek and all it did was leave her wanting for more. She could not be stopped after that first trek. Along with a demanding job as a software engineer with big names such as TCS, Infosys and IBM, she also took …

There are many social and parental pressures on the way that a girl should live her life in India. Parents and society has always had an authority on the way that a girl decides to live in the country. There are always some or the other type of restrictions on her about how she should dress, who she should marry, …