A living library

If a library lends you a person instead of a book, the experience is bound to be quite different from what you are used to As you walk up to the registration section of this library, a young girl at the desk greets you with a smile and asks, “Hi, which book would you want […]

Cheating the system

The road to a medical education is paved with coaching institutes and dummy schools, which enable a student to pass class 11 and 12 without compulsory attendance. This gives them an unfair advantage in NEET Every year, thousands of students across India appear for the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) exams. Hundreds of hours […]

Where the magic is lost

Delhi’s Kalandar Colony bristles with traditional magicians who are hardly ever called to perform, and still keep monkeys as pets, though street shows are banned “Our ancestors have been doing magic and monkey shows since the 1800s,” says Nashir Khan, 61, part-time magician on the dying art of magic shows and street monkey shows of […]

Silence, please!

As Delhi is the second noisiest city in the world. environmentalists need to buckle up and find ways to curb this hazard Rakesh, 30, a citizen of Rajendra Nagar travels every day to work, and on his way to work in Daryaganj, suffers the torture of traffic snarls at the Jama Masjid traffic signal, where […]

‘Delhi is the culprit’

A curious set of circumstances have made Delhi a transit point for drugs, as Amarinder Singh suggests and Delhi Police is unable to deny Tougher policing of Punjab’s border, with several checkpoints, is helping the state assuage its people’s fears, making them believe that the fight against drugs is being won. However, there’s another threat […]

A bespoke menu

This restaurant in Shahpur Jat designs and customises the menu for you. Just share your food choices and leave the rest to the three amazing chefs here HolyBelly Food Boutique, New Delhi Imagine this. You enter a restaurant with your bestie and find that you two are the only guests in the cosy intimate space […]

Korea beyond Kimchi

If you are in the mood for some exotic spicy food, then Gurgaon’s Hahn’s kitchen – an authentic Korean restaurant – is something you can’t afford to miss Most of us unknowingly have had their first taste of Korean food through what can be called the ‘Punjabi version’ of kimchi, which is essentially chopped cabbage […]

Dream platform

Artist Meher Bose is successfully using Instagram for promoting handcrafted products There is one other thing that Instagram is slowly making a name for – boosting business. Over the past couple of years, Instagram has seen a plethora of young, budding artistes building up demand for their quirky skills, using the various tools that the […]