Why the world always has 9% left-handed people

There is a special kind of tyranny in being born into a world designed for somebody else’s hand. The scissors are wrong. The classroom desk is wrong. The ink smudges the wrong way. The handshake, the ritual, the factory machine, the spiral notebook, the cricket field, the guitar, the language itself, all seem to whisper…

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‘It rewards you in another way’

Saif Ali Khan revealed that his performance in Parineeta (2005) landed him a role in Priyadarshan’s Haiwaan nearly two decades later. The actor also reflected on how Omkara remains a career-defining film, crediting Vishal Bhardwaj for breaking his typecast image and bringing together talent from vastly different cinematic worlds. Nearly two decades after its release,…

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This remote village in Russia wakes up to “Hare Krishna”; how Indian travellers can reach here

PC: Instagram/@indigotrekker23 Ever imagined incense smoke rising through icy chilled air and Sanskrit chants echoing in sub-zero temperatures? This is Okunevo for you. Far from the madding crowd, deep in the frozen wilderness of Siberia lies a small hamlet that looks completely different from traditional Russia in terms of culture and belief. In Okunevo, a…

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We earn the same, and yet we don’t

The strongest entrepreneurial mind I met in college never thought about starting a company. This is not because he lacked ideas. Quite the opposite. He was the kind of person who could look at a broken process and instinctively understand how to improve it. While the rest of us discussed startup ideas in the abstract,…

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