We’ve all eaten a modak once. The third pleat always gives it away. Pinch too hard, and the ukad, the steamed rice-flour dough that forms the modak’s outer shell, splits along the seam, and the coconut-jaggery filling starts leaking out before the thing even reaches the steamer.Every home cook who has attempted ukadiche modak, the…
‘Padayaatra’ trailer_ Mammootty reunites with Adoor Gopalakrishnan after three decades. The trailer for Mammootty and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s much-awaited movie ‘Padayaatra’ has been released. It gives the audience their first glimpse of the period drama where the superstar will play a doctor. About the ‘Padayaatra’ trailer The one-minute, 14-second trailer introduces Mammootty as a doctor who…
Forest City was meant to become a futuristic metropolis near Singapore, but its empty towers and quiet streets earned it a very different reputation. That unusual setting later attracted a group of technology entrepreneurs who saw the underused development as an opportunity to test a new way of living and working. In 2024, Network School…
Ganesha’s single tusk is in his prayers before it is in his idols. The Ganapati Atharvashirsha, a short Upanishadic text recited in temples every day, carries the Ganesha Gayatri, which begins “ekadantaya vidmahe”, roughly, “let us know the one-tusked one.” Ekadanta, the one with a single tusk, is how devotees address him.So the missing tusk…
Candace Owens, Erika Kirk and Charlie Kirk (Image via Getty) Candace Owens has once again put her strained relationship with Erika Kirk under the spotlight. A post circulating on social media features Owens discussing Charlie Kirk’s death, Turning Point USA and what she describes as a betrayal of the late conservative activist. Her comments, made…
YouTuber Brandon Buckingham is at the center of fresh controversy after reports claimed he was arrested in Louisiana on an alleged auto theft charge. A mugshot and booking notice circulating online have fueled the reports, while his official X account has responded with a brief message calling for his release. However, details surrounding the reported…
Osama bin Laden (File photo) Three years before the 9/11 attacks shocked the United States, then-President Bill Clinton was warned by the CIA that Osama bin Laden intended to carry out attacks in India, Pakistan, Uganda and possibly Nigeria.A newly declassified CIA warning dated August 28, 1998, said Bin Laden had survived US missile strikes…
Brad Pitt and Ines De Ramon attend the US Open Final Women’s match over the weekend in style. (Instagram) Brad Pitt and Ines De Ramon attended the US Open women’s final in style along with many other celebrities. (Instagram) Brad Pitt and Ines De Ramon attend the US Open Final Women’s match over the weekend…
The Danube does not arrive at the Black Sea as it once did. For thousands of years, the river carried enormous quantities of sediment towards its delta, steadily building and reshaping the low-lying landscape where river channels meet lagoons and the sea. That process changed after large-scale engineering works altered the river upstream. Following the…
On the night of Anant Chaturdashi, the sand at Mumbai’s Girgaon Chowpatty vanishes underfoot. A truck carrying a twenty-foot Ganesha, built over four months in a Lalbaug workshop, edges toward the water while a few hundred men wade in beside it, chanting a name they’ll shout again next August. Within the hour, a figure that…