
An Indian Thanksgiving
Turkey alongside biryani, gulab jamun after pumpkin pie. How Indian American families made Thanksgiving their own — and made it better.
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Turkey alongside biryani, gulab jamun after pumpkin pie. How Indian American families made Thanksgiving their own — and made it better.
Grandparent childcare is free, loving, and emotionally complicated. What works — in families where it works — is explicit negotiation, not assumptions.

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.
The fleeing husband who leaves a long marriage triggers more than grief — a painful revision of the whole story the abandoned partner told herself.

Roughly 80% of adults will get lower back pain — and the old advice to lie down was wrong. The evidence now says: move your back, don't rest it.
One of the original Apple I computers — sold from the Jobs garage in 1976 for $666.66 — fetched $210,000 at a Christie's London auction this week.
Math ability predicts lifetime wealth better than income does. The compound-interest numbers — $200 a month from 25 to 65 — are genuinely startling.
In November 2010 Google blocked Facebook from importing Gmail contacts — the opening shot of the data-protectionist wars between the two giants.
India's informal used-book economy went online in the 2010s. How platforms like Bookoholics collapsed the geography of secondhand reading.
Correction: an earlier version of this story wrongly claimed Action Replayy was India's Oscar submission. The actual 2010 entry was Anusha Rizvi's Peepli Live.

Hair is at once trivial and profound — a primary medium through which women negotiate identity, conformity, and rebellion. Why it matters.
Rapid weight loss costs muscle, not just fat — and the rebound is physiology, not failure. Why half a pound a week beats the crash diet.

After years of Sikh advocacy, the TSA revised its turban screening rules in 2010. A real improvement — and a window into post-9/11 security theater.
Urban Indian children live on screens and schedules. What free play builds — executive function, emotional regulation, real friendships — and what's lost
Pizza Hut entered India in 1996 and found a cuisine that refused to be replaced. The result: paneer tikka toppings, independent joints, and an Indian pizza

Google's Chrome team is footing the bill for free Gogo Wi-Fi on AirTran, Delta, and Virgin America flights from November 20 to January 2 — about 15 million
Married since 1999, the Beckhams have outlasted every tabloid death notice. What keeps a celebrity marriage running under that level of scrutiny?
Total sugar bans tend to fail. What behavioral nutrition research actually says about sweets, moderation, and lasting weight loss.

Internal BP documents from the Deepwater Horizon litigation contradict the company's public safety claims. The warnings came from inside — and were ignored.

In the 2010 Bihar assembly elections, women outvoted men — 54.85% to 50.77% — quietly rewriting the state's political arithmetic as the fear factor faded.