Day: January 14, 2024

Fibre sounds healthy. Nutritious. Boring, to be honest. Doctors tell us to eat more of it. Humans have a very simple definition of

This is NRI season, when relatives and friends who live overseas return home to visit. A septuagenarian aunt of mine mourns that, with

Silk was likely invented in Neolithic China, at least 5,000 years ago. Today, China is the world’s largest producer of raw silk, producing

The death of German football legend Franz Beckenbauer aka Der Kaiser last week, aged 78, brought into focus a position in football that

Spider silk is like something out of a comic book. It is superstrong. Flexible. Elastic. When compared in terms of strands of the

Niharika Reddy, 17, only took to long-distance cycling three years ago, while recovering from a fracture in her leg. She began riding with

The DC is a 643-km trail up through the Sahyadris and down to the coast. In November 2023, Reddy finished it solo, in

Reddy first participated in the gruelling Deccan Cliffhanger (DC) in 2022, with her uncle, in the relay category. As the announcer called out

Slang is taking fresh twists and turns, with help from gaming, K-pop, Tiktok and, surprisingly, ballroom culture. See why ‘mother’ is iconic; what

Is there a way to control the flood of tourists; turn people politely away; save a town from its own beauty before it