A chemical engineer from IIT-Bombay is surely going to live a lush and comfortable life. The same was the case with 29-year-old Sanket Parekh. His life was all about achievements and targets. With a well-paying job in hand, he was planning to pursue post-graduation from the United States of America. But he did not know when his life would turn …

Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist who co-opts the forms of pre-Columbian ceramics to issue a postcolonial manifesto about identity and integrity. “Plunder Me, Baby,” her show at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, is withering one moment, wacky the next, and brilliant throughout. The show features two series of sculptures, a mixed-media wall piece and a selection of videos. …

Banana, pineapple, bamboo, jute, aloe vera, flax, hemp, beetroot, pomegranate, teak, sewali flowers are just some of the plants that are being used for creating fabrics, colours or styles. The fashion industry is now making efforts to veer away from the environmental unfriendly clothes and launching new trends towards the making of clothes from plant products that will be both …

The old days are gone. No more is love compared to the pure and saintly thing that it is. Instead, relationships have become as dispensable as Kleenex tissues; people use and throw away the relationships after they are done soaking the mess. While this may sound harsh, it can be considered both as a negative and positive thing. The negative …

Women are often considered to way more tolerant than men. They can take a lot more than men before a line is crossed. However, once the line is crossed, and the woman is done taking shit from a man, there is no changing her mind. While this is a general rule, it applies mostly to dating. Once a woman decides …

While the quote “Silence is true wisdom’s best reply” by Euripides is small, it holds quite a deep meaning in itself. It is also very controversial in itself as it depends on the situation whether silence is the best reply or not. There are times when offering advice in a situation leads to argument more than there are times when …

Idris Khan is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. He, along with his wife and fellow sculptor Annie Morris, is showcasing his work for the first time in India. The exhibition will be titled Re-Imaginings and it will feature all the work that the couple has done over the last couple of years where they have dealt with the concept …

Shashi Tharoor’s one tweet made every Indian think twice before tweeting anything on Twitter. The tweet has set standards for Indian Vocabulary. Below is the tweet which invoked a sense of self-assessment for all other who tweet in basic language. Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations&outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalst — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May …

At the advent of each new year, each one of us makes some or the other resolution that we hope to stick to for the rest of the year. As we grow older, our resolutions become more realistic and also become easier to integrate into our daily routines. We reflect on who we were during the whole year at the …

Statistics of drunk and drive cases have gone down from past few years and all credit goes to the campaigns and awareness programs run by different state police but still, the number is considerable. So, for this year also, different state police use social media to create awareness. Below are the tweets by Bangalore police, Delhi police, Mumbai police and …