Bollywood actors Shraddha Kapoor and Nora Fatehi have been cleared in a 2022 drugs case after the Mumabi police confirmed that no evidence was found against them. According to police officials, the investigation has been completed and it has been established that Kapoor, Fatehi, and other named individuals had no proven link to the alleged…
In 2007 I’d been single for a few years and had just returned from a year volunteering in a village in Bangladesh. Six months after arriving home in Sydney I decided to take up a teaching job in Mulan Aboriginal community in the Kimberley, halfway between Broome and Alice Springs, population 120. The first term…
When I lived in inner Sydney, my apartment building had a dedicated reuse room for secondhand items. The room was officially named the Room of Unlimited Magical Recycling Possibilities, but most residents just called it the magic room. This name was fitting because often things seemed to appear there precisely when I needed them. I…
SAN FRANCISCO: Celebrated conductor, pianist and composer Michael Tilson Thomas, a longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony known as a creative visionary, has died at age 81 after nearly five years with brain cancer, the orchestra announced on Thursday. Thomas, a 12-time Grammy winner and one of the leading orchestral music figures of…
They say that the most stressful life events are death, divorce and moving house. I’d add a fourth: steering your teenager through their GCSEs. (I can’t bear to think about A-levels.) My almost 16-year-old daughter is sitting her first exam in just under two weeks so my husband and I, along with thousands of other…
It was a cascading flow of emotions built around cherished memories, both sweet-n-sour – spanning decades. Memories were coming in swarms as a towering persona in the realm of broadcasting, literature and cultural activism across the country and even abroad, Dr Rafeeq Masoodi was delineating “self” and his illustrious “literary journey.” Sopore, known for its…
When it seems like the world and his now-skinny wife are on weight-loss drugs, it’s easy to forget that there are ways to make yourself feel full without relying on jabs. Ozempic et al mimic the hormone GLP-1 to give us that sensation of satiety, but it can also be activated by what and how…
When I line up for my first marathon tomorrow, I’ll be wearing the same trainers I wear every day: for the gym, for running, to and from work, and out on the weekends. In fact, I’ll have spent no money on fancy kit, training plans or tech — just a tenner on a bright orange vest in…
There was a summer Sunday not long gone by — the kind of day where the heat continues to rise and the blue of the sky is utterly cerulean — that was perfect to spend in the sky in a friend’s four-seater Cessna 172. We flew from Gloucestershire Airport to Goodwood, West Sussex, for lunch,…
