Kerala was the first Indian state to report a case of COVID-19. And when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown on March 24, Kerala had the most cases of any state. But after the lockdown, while most states kept reporting a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, Kerala is one state that...

Diksha was eight years old when she lost her father, a soldier, in the Kargil War. Major Dwivedi would write many loving letters to his family when he was on duty. Diksha and her sister Neha would read and re-read those letters as a way to remember him. Three years ago, she decided to collect other such letters that...

Who are we Indians? And what are our origins? The most fought-over question in Indian history is slowly, but surely, getting answered. Did the Aryans, who composed Sanskrit and Hinduism’s oldest religious texts, the Vedas, come into India sometime between 2000 BC – 1500 BC? New DNA evidence based study has made...

They say you can always trust an author with a good reading recommendation. To help you find some excellent summer reads, we rounded up authors from across our different lists to answer a simple question: Which book would you recommend to your readers this summer? Here are 6 amazing suggestions –    Abhijit...

वर्चस्व की लड़ाइयां कभी-कभी बदलावों का संवाहक हुआ करती थीं। हालॉकि गॉव के हर नाके पर तनाव था, मगर चुहल भी थी, और कयासें तो...

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a company that has gone through periods of extreme economic crises and has always managed to come out on top. HUL executive Sudhir Sitapati tells us about some of the principles and business strategies that make HUL almost recession-proof. 1. Entrepreneurial approach Most people...

Good mental health is more than just the absence of mental illness. A lot of mental health stuff can be patronising, and most of us wish that some good advice was available when we were younger. It could happen to anyone, and we should deal with it empathetically. But if we don’t know enough how do we empathise?...

उत्तराखण्ड की तहसील भटवारी में एक गाँव है, गंगोत्री। भागीरथी नदी के किनारे बसे इस गाँव से लगभग 20 कि.मी. ही होगा गोमुख, जिससे...

Have you ever wondered where the word parenting comes from? It comes from the Latin word parere, which means to bring forth. In week 4 of the #ReadInstead Lit fest, our author and clinical psychologist Dr. Anubha Majithia hosted a super helpful parenting masterclass in which she talked us through five things parents...

We all become angry, and most of us don’t like it. We try to suppress it for different reasons – maybe we don’t want to look a certain way, or be called short-tempered by our peers. Feeling angry is not bad—every emotion is valid, and it can be useful for our growth. What is bad is punching our friend in the face...