Mukta Munshi Mumbai-based, teen singer-songwriter Aditi Iyer recently released her second EP Dollhouse, the four-track EP woven around the disconcerting pattern of abusive relationships. A class 12 student, she released her first EP at 10! But that is not hard to understand as she got in her genes – her maternal grandmother is a Carnatic […]Read More
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The State of Pet Homelessness Index, released yesterday, advises people to give up their fetish for breed dogs, and adopt street dogs instead Team L&M There are nearly 80 million homeless cats and dogs in India, living in shelters or on the streets. This is despite the fact that during the lockdown two-thirds of pet parents […]Read More
Weddings are likely to see a huge rise in the number of attendees Team L&M The Covid pandemic may have spoiled the big-fat wedding plans of some in 2020 or 2021, but it has certainly not dampened their spirit to tie the knot and celebrate the occasion as planned. With a significant decline in caseload […]Read More
Mukta Munshi Growing up in Pushkar, Dr Ankur Sharma led a simple middle-class life but always had big dreams – the dreams of being rich and famous. So, even while he was studying medicine in Ajmer , music was an over-riding passion with him. A part of his dream came true recently when he made […]Read More
Team L&M Sundaram Verma, a native of Danta (Ramgarh), a village in the Sikar district of Rajasthan, is one of the Padma Shri awardees this year. Verma, a grassroots innovator is known for growing not one or two but as many as 50,000 trees in the arid Shekhawati region of Rajasthan using a technique of […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Literature and art always fascinated her. An avid reader since her early childhood, she contributed stories and poems in various publications. But her life path was chartered by her father who wanted her to become a doctor and serve rural areas where access to medicare was scarce. So, rather than going the […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Ashok Gyanoba Jadhav, a resident of Chinchner village in Satara district of Maharashtra has come up with an inexpensive and innovative way to remove weeds from the farming fields. Jadhav, 71, who turned to organic farming after his retirement in 1999, was troubled by the extensive growth of weeds in his two-acre […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha At a time when Punjab gets into the national news for all the wrong reasons, a young boy from the state is trying to set the record straight. Meet Batala resident Kuwar Amritbir Singh, the recipient of the REX Karamvir Global Youth Icon award 2020-21. Singh also holds two other world records, […]Read More
The World Animal Day was selected in honour of the feast of Francis of Assisi, who was regarded as a patron saint of animals. The day was first celebrated on March 24, 1925 at the Sport Palace in Germany’s Berlin city by Heinrich Zimmermann, the German writer. It was moved to October 4, in 1929. […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha What do you expect to happen when a graduate in Psychology with an MBA in Human Resources, a 62-year-old retired chemical engineer and a 57-year-old homemaker join hands? Something extraordinary, Right! Well, that’s what actually happened. The trio is running India’s first and one-of-a-kind WhatsApp-based book and toy store for kids aged 0 […]Read More