Labor Day 2025 parades and fireworks: the can’t-miss events across the USA this weekendLabor Day 2025 is set to bring millions of Americans together for parades, concerts, and fireworks that mark the official close of summer. ...
NYT Connections Hints June 17, puzzle #737: Clues and answers to solve today’s breezy brain workout with familiar themesAs the New York Times puzzle series continues to grow in cultural impact, NYT Connections remains a lighthearted yet intellectually satisfy...
A ride-hailing startup in Washington tries to 'out-Uber'Founded in 2019, the ride-hailing startup Empower has become a serious rival to Uber and Lyft in Washington. It now does 100,000 rides in t...
Anand Mahindra shares edited video of cute puppet dancing with its master on Oscar-winning song ‘Naatu Naatu’ ; Watch videoAn edited video showing a puppet “dancing” to the Oscar-winning song “Naatu Naatu” has become very popular online.
Football gets (almost) all out for no lossArsenal - billed as a no-holds-barred depiction of the Premier League team's tumultuous 2021-22 season.
Nosferatu: The film that reminds us the dread of diseaseA 100-year-old movie drives home the primal fear of falling prey to contagion that we had forgotten until last year’s ‘second wave’.
When sports fans created a world only from the radio commentators’ wordsRadio commentary engaged the fan — especially the fan who has not been to a stadium or been able to watch the sport on TV — in a special wa...
Why Annette is reminiscent of a classic Richard Matheson story about a vicious child and its exasperated parentsIn the story's climax, when the doll starts misbehaving too, the couple are at their wits' end - until epiphany strikes. 'It's not the doll...
Gerry Anderson puppets, collected by studio driver, may fetch nearly $200K at online auctionThe items are from 1980s science fiction show 'Terrahawks', 'Captain Scarlet' and 'Space Police'.
Like birth certificates and marionette lines, slang and colloquialisms too are accurate indicators of ageNot all contemporaneous slang words die out at the same time — ‘cool’ is still cool, but groovy is not.
2018 World Cup’s official song ‘Live It Up’ lacks anthemic, adrenaline qualityHowever, 'Waka Waka' remains, rightly, the biggest-selling World Cup song of all time.
Narendra Modi government flags off cultural mapping to identify, record details of artistes across IndiaThe hope is that marrying technology with this endeavor in an age of data analytics will help make many of India’s traditions accessible an...
Coaches are treated as 'marionettes' in Indian hockey: Former India coach Jose BrasaCoaches in Indian hockey are treated as 'marionettes' and lack of of freedom and interference are the main reasons behind the controversial...
This winter, experience the exotic Rann Utsav in Gujarat and head over to South Africa's beer festivalExperience the Kutch at its colourful and exotic best during the Rann Utsav in Gujarat or sip and try out hundreds of beer on show in Cape ...
John Singer Sargent's Marionettes in Sotheby's annual spring auctionSotheby's annual spring auction of American Art in New York will feature an important, highly personal painting by John Singer Sargent.
Traveller’s diary: Experiences to be had around the worldFood, Sport, Music and Dance — there are a number of experiences to be had around the world this month. Fasten your seat belts.
- A journey to New York
The thought of going abroad for the first time — that too, to the Big Apple – sure was exciting. But I was also apprehensive.