Challenges have always been a hazardous thing for some or the other group in our world. The last one was the Blue Whale Challenge which claimed the lives of many children. These days, as part of a dangerous new online challenge, teens are putting laundry pods in their mouth. This had started out as a joke since the Tide Pods …

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 …

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 …

Deepak Nayak is an engineer with ancestral land in Rajasthan. While growing up, he would often visit his family’s ancestral land in Rajasthan which was being managed by farm labourers as no one had no time to work on it. “Those few days spent on our farm were the most memorable and relaxing moments of my childhood, and I would often crave …

Sara Geurts is a 26-year-old woman who has learned how to love and accept herself despite her skin condition, something that many people find hard to do in today’s time. Her truly inspiring story goes to show that you don’t get to give up just because life has treated you unfairly than others in some ways. It’s not all about the way …

There is a lot of difference between the praise and flattery. While the praise is the compliments of someone’s liking, the flattery – with your sweet talks – is exactly its reversal as it might have some hidden agenda. In other words, one is sincere and unselfish and the other insincere and selfish.  While one comes from the heart and …

Ritu Nakra was a graduate from Delhi’s National Institute of Fashion Technology and by 2000, she was leading the perfect life, career at its peak running her own line of handicrafts, newlywed and expecting her first child, daughter to be named Ananya. After about a year and a half after Ananya was born, she was diagnosed with Sensorineural Profound Hearing Loss …