Life & Style

Social media is changing in 2026 Social media has a funny way of making yesterday’s big thing feel ancient within a few weeks.One month, everyone is obsessed with a particular audio. The next, nobody remembers it. A new photo format appears, creators copy it, brands jump on it, and suddenly your entire feed looks the…

Photo: South Yorkshire Police/ BBC Most of us think of toddlers as the ones who need looking after and to be taken care of, and not the ones who come to the rescue. But sometimes even small children do something so surprising and quick-witted that it seems extraordinary.One such incident happened when a three-year-old remembered…

​How to clean grout naturally: 7 easy ways to remove dirt and stains There’s a particular kind of despair that sets in when you notice just how grey your once-white bathroom grout has become, especially when you realise mopping over it for months did absolutely nothing. Grout’s rough, porous texture is brilliant at holding tiles…

Meet the Vasuki Indicus: The largest snake to roam the Earth, earlier mistaken for a massive crocodile; IIT Roorkee researchers name it after the ‘Vasuki Naag’ (Photo via Nature) Snakes are among nature’s most fascinating creatures and are also revered in the mythologies and traditions of cultures around the world.In India, snakes have long been…

​Micro gardening at home: A step-by-step beginner’s guide You don’t need a backyard, a farmhouse, or even a proper garden to grow something worth eating. Micro gardening is exactly what it sounds like: cultivating herbs, greens, and even small vegetables in whatever compact space you actually have- a windowsill, a narrow balcony, a corner of…

Sometimes, you don’t realise how much someone has become a part of your life until it’s time to say goodbye.That’s exactly what happened in a video that has been making the rounds on Instagram. An American woman was seen breaking down in tears as her Indian neighbours prepared to leave the US and return to…

When Angelou says she is “sustained” by family love, she’s talking about the kind of love that helps you get through life. We all have bad days. Plans don’t work out. Work gets stressful. People disappoint us. Sometimes, for no obvious reason, you just feel drained. And then you talk to someone who knows you…

Photo: @twofit.to.quit/ Instagram Most of us think fitness has a deadline and tend to associate gyms and aerobics clubs with a habit that only develops in our twenties and often end up believing that if we didn’t build it then, the window has quietly closed.But rarely do we think that it is never too late…

They didn’t file a long complaint or stage a protest; 3 girls made a funny video about their road and officials took notice (Screen Grab from the viral video) A bad road can become part of daily life so that people stop noticing it. For three Class 10 students in Raigad, Maharashtra, that changed during…

Divorce or separation does not happen majorly because of one single fight. More often, it’s the last straw after months, sometimes years, of things that kept piling up one on top of another, be it through the unspoken frustrations, the arguments that never really got resolved, the small hurts nobody talked about mutually.And yet, from…