Interesting

Shubhli Bhalla reviews Ashwin Sanghi's The Krishna Key — a thriller weaving the legend of Krishna with modern-day murder and conspiracy.

February 23, 2015 · 3 min read

A viral video of a pen-selling child visiting McDonald's for the first time — and what 'first time' videos reveal, and conceal, about poverty.

February 17, 2015 · 1 min read

In February 2015, the BMC demolished a 75-metre ramp Shah Rukh Khan had built on a public road outside Mannat — and considered billing him for it.

February 17, 2015 · 1 min read

Shah Rukh Khan's Fan (2016) cast him in a double role — a superstar and his obsessive lookalike fan — in one of his most challenging performances.

February 5, 2015 · 1 min read

In January 2015, five Disneyland workers contracted measles — including two who were vaccinated — as California's outbreak passed 53 confirmed cases.

January 21, 2015 · 1 min read

A 2015 survey of UK divorce lawyers found Facebook cited in over a third of cases — as evidence of infidelity, hidden finances, and rekindled old flames.

January 20, 2015 · 1 min read

A viral story claimed an anonymous woman cured her cancer with ginger and honey. The claim is unverifiable, the source page is gone, and there is no

January 14, 2015 · 1 min read

At the 2015 Golden Globes, Boyhood won Best Drama while Transparent became the first streaming series ever to win a Golden Globe.

January 12, 2015 · 2 min read

Suchitra Sharma reflects on how Facebook memorialized accounts keep a loved one's presence alive — 'life goes on' even after death, in the virtual world.

January 5, 2015 · 1 min read

RoboDynamics' Luna — a 5-foot, open-source home robot running Ubuntu and ROS — returned in 2014 with a Kickstarter campaign at $999.

December 23, 2014 · 1 min read

A Harvard-affiliated study found that eight weeks of mindfulness meditation produced measurable changes in brain regions linked to memory, empathy, and stress.

December 15, 2014 · 1 min read

A Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Phoenix made an unscheduled stop at LAX when a passenger went into labor — a doctor and a nurse on board

December 11, 2014 · 1 min read

A simple five-step wake-up routine — set intentions at night, move the alarm across the room, hydrate, and get dressed to move — that makes early mornings

December 8, 2014 · 2 min read

Rajkumar Hirani's PK, starring Aamir Khan as an alien baffled by organized religion, released December 19, 2014 — and went on to become the highest-grossing

December 6, 2014 · 1 min read

Indian singer-songwriter Surjo released his debut album 'The Key Has Turned' in November 2014 — twelve acoustic songs written over three months.

December 6, 2014 · 1 min read

After the Sony hack, five films — Annie, Fury, Mr. Turner, Still Alice, To Write Love on Her Arms — leaked onto file-sharing networks.

December 1, 2014 · 1 min read

Vicky Torres and Juanita Salas pitched tents outside the Beaumont, California Best Buy three weeks before Thanksgiving 2014 — all to land a Black Friday TV

November 12, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, ecommerce platform Zepo put four Bandra street chaiwalas online at ChotuChaiWala.com — weekly subscriptions of Mumbai's cutting chai, delivered to

November 11, 2014 · 1 min read

A 2014 study found ATCV-1 — an algae virus thought unable to infect humans — in the throats of 40 of 92 healthy people, who scored modestly lower on

November 10, 2014 · 1 min read

A 2014 report claimed SRK would return for Don 3 — but history took a different turn: in August 2023 Farhan Akhtar announced Ranveer Singh as the new Don.

November 7, 2014 · 1 min read