"Reading stamina really is a thing. I used to read entire chapter books within a few days, but after a year-long break from reading, I can barely read for an hour and now finish books in a week or more." This isn't the story of one individual; it reflects the experience of many today. According to
Swinging around a tree in the signature open-arm lean of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, Zohran Mamdani asks, "Hey! Have you ever voted before?" Just a year ago, most New Yorkers were unfamiliar with him. Today, he's the city's first South Asian Muslim mayor and its youngest in generations. Early
It always began with the bell. The piercing metallic noise broke the morning cacophony of lectures and classes. For a few seconds, everything stayed still. Then the benches moved, shoes tapped the floor, and students rushed out of the classroom. Some ran to the field, some to the corridors, clutchi
Do you feel regret while scrolling through social media, checking news feeds, and think, 'What am I doing?' and then keep scrolling more? Have you ever felt that you have so many tasks piled up, scheduled for the next day, but still can't complete them because you slept late at night? Perhaps most
We see big goals and grand resolutions being celebrated all the time. We are obsessed with fitness transformations, career milestones, self-improvements, and all these chase for overnight transformations stop as abruptly as they started. Every January, millions and millions of people set grand res
Have you ever stopped in front of a glowing perfume advertisement and wondered if it was actually true? A charming man in a tuxedo standing under the rain, or a woman in a velvet gown whispering, "It lasts forever"—they make us believe that a long-lasting scent automatically equals quality. B
In her book The Reenchantment of Art, Suzie Gablic mentioned that art's long history of elevating design over subject matter has resulted in a disconnect and the cultivation of shallow aesthetic emotions. She argued that art should not only address issues but also collaborate directly with the publ
When Alfred Nobel was presumed dead in 1888, a French newspaper printed an obituary referring to him as "The Merchant of Death." In reality, it was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died of a heart attack in France. But due to some misunderstanding, one French newspaper believed that it was Alfred w
Life, he seems to say, is both unbearable and ordinary, and that is the secret reason people keep going. This year, the Nobel Prize in Literature went to László Krasznahorkai — a writer whose sentences refuse to stop and whose worlds never quite make sense. For many, his novels
It isn't the monsoon rain that haunts Bangladesh the most; it's the striped mosquito that can turn a neighbourhood into a battleground and hospitals into warzones. And thus, every monsoon, Bangladesh faces its known enemy, the Dengue Fever. Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus cause it. Dengue fever w
What if a single line of text could bend time, blur reality, and turn imagination into a photograph? That's precisely what today's AI image tools are doing. It's taking us back to childhood, fast-forwarding into the future, or conjuring the impossible in a single, picture-perfect frame. The intern
There comes a time in every cat owner's life when they realise they're no longer the one in control. It's that moment when you're stuck on the bed, not daring to move because the moody little creature in your house has decided your lap or your hands are the perfect spot for a nap. Or it could hit
"At my lowest point, writing became my only escape. I started with poetry. Every word I scribbled on paper was a way of telling myself I was still here, still breathing. Later, I turned to journaling. Keeping a diary saved me. It was the only space where I could pour out my pain without judgment. O
