Saurabh Tankha Na jaane kyun hota hai yeh zindagi key saath Achanak yeh mann kisike jane key baad Kare phir uskee yaad chhoti chhoti si baat Naa jane kyun… These lyrics from the 1976 Amol Palekar-Vidya Sinha-starrer, Chhoti Si Baat, seem so appropriate today when its director Basu Chatterjee has moved onto another world. The […]Read More
Team L&M Want to know about Indian conservationists who are working in diverse ways to save the world from human destructiveness, often facing seemingly insurmountable odds? People like Romulus Whitaker, Parineeta Dandekar, Rohan Arthur, Vidya Athreya, Aparajita Datta, Jay Mazoomdaar, Minal Pathak, Rohan Chakravarty, Kavitha Kuruganti and Laxmi Kamble who are striving to solve the […]Read More
Team L&M With work from home becoming the new short term normal, users in metro cities are buying more of effort-saving kitchen devices like roti makers, electric rice cookers, dough makers, vegetable choppers, air fryers, yoghurt makers, appam makers and coffee makers. Other popular items include fruit cutters like apple cutter, coconut scraper, pineapple grater, […]Read More
Team L&M Rap sensations Raftaar and Krsna have come together to launch a new rap song, Chaukanna, featuring Karan Wahi. The song has been inspired by the leading women of the Hotstar Specials latest show, Hundred, a masala entertainer about misadventures of a dysfunctional duo starring Lara Dutta, Rinku Rajguru and Karan Wahi. Chaukanna is a peppy number that perfectly navigates […]Read More
Team L&M In yet another step to fulfil its corporate social responsibility in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the on-going national lockdown, IIT Madras incubated clean tech start-up Air Ok Technologies has joined hands with two NGOs — Earth Saviours Foundation and One Good Deed — to distribute some essentials among those who […]Read More
Shruti Sharma The myths about suicide that people believe and actual suicide attempts which happen, in adolescents are that they are just a bid for attention or “a cry for help.” Children who speak out or those who write about killing themselves are not paid attention to as they are seen as overly dramatic, which […]Read More
When your first original gets over a million views on YouTube alone, it means people love your music and you are here to stay. So it happened with the country’s upcoming boy band, Twin Strings which is now ready with their second original, Tujhse Hoti Hai Subha. “We are excited for this, especially after the […]Read More
The entire world is facing the Covid-19 crisis, which has impacted our health and lifestyle. New terms like lockdown, social distancing, masks, sanitisers have all become a part of life. Like all businesses, the beauty and wellness sector has also been negatively impacted. In fact, the negative effects are more pronounced where the beauty salon […]Read More
Dance has been a way of life for her since childhood. For years, she has performed in the dance ballets staged by the Rashtra Seva Dal Kalapathak under the direction of noted poet Vasant Bapat and tutelage of Shri Ramesh Purav. Together, they have presented several memorable shows such as Maharashtra Darshan, Bharat Darshan, Shiv Darshan and […]Read More
Let us reflect: Need to create a culture of asking questions Need to transform students from being passive listeners to innovators. Student control is a fallacy. Present academia is so busy trying to devise methods of control; that they have forgotten of being a student themselves. Education should not encourage creating cow webs in the […]Read More