Being home-bound for the past few months gave me the opportunity to rediscover some of my favourite TV shows and movies. Top of this list was the popular amazon prime show, ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’. This is the story of Midge Maisel, a housewife turned comedian in 1950s New York City, and is enthralling in its humour and its superb storytelling. The commitment to detail in costume- and set-design to build an accurate (and visually pleasing) portrayal of the 1950s is commend

When I mentioned to my friends we were having my mother-in-law stay, the comments were usually “good luck” or something on those lines. But we have been very lucky indeed! We have had help with the baby, along with being spoilt; in her professional career she worked in the food industry owning her own #restaurants and food businesses. When we told our family that we were expecting our second child, the estimated due date was marked in their diaries and the year’s schedule wa

Assuming you have made the decision to learn another language, you are now faced with the task of choosing a language to learn. There are many factors to consider when making this decision: how much time can you devote, how fluent you want to become, and why you want to learn? If you have always wanted to travel to Spain and have finally booked the trip for the following year, it would not really make sense to practice the Spanish spoken in Ecuador or Cuba. If you are learnin

The young artist, Nguyễn Lan Vy, is not concerned about the appreciation of her art on conventional merit. When drawing a horse she does not try to capture its exact appearance, but rather, is happy with a certain likeness. Furthermore, when feeling that the piece is not strong enough, she adapts an idea and is satisfied with a helicopter when she is unable to draw a good enough plane! According to Trần Ngọc Thêm- Professor of Vietnam Studies, Vietnamese Folklore artists

What’s the best way to know a place? Many people claim that the best way to get to know a place is to walk it and, having seen several cities this way, I could not agree more. Despite its size, Istanbul is without doubt one of the prime candidates for this. While recent months have seen the Turkish city embroiled in unrest, it is unfair to focus solely on these occurrences; when it comes to it, Istanbul, spanning two continents and numerous centuries, has so much more on offe

Nikola Tesla believed that peace could be brought about by unmanned machines. Machines which would be so powerful that they could end any war. The menace of its deployment would be enough to make rivals sit down and start peace talks. The way he envisioned these machines resembles what we know today as drones. The robot would be so groundbreaking that it wouldn't require any wires, cables or any sort of electrical or mechanical connections to be remotely controlled by a human