Sanchari Pal

One of India's most-loved culinary stars, Chef Kunal Kapur is best known as the host and judge of the TV series MasterChef India Season 1, 2, 3 and 5. In a freewheeling discussion, the popular celebrity chef talked to The Better India about his life, his work and his love affair with food.

The sinking of PNS Ghazi during the the Indo-Pak war of 1971 has long been an unsolved enigma. With the first poster of The Ghazi Attack (India’s first war-at-sea film that is based on the mysterious sinking of PNS Ghazi) being released yesterday, here's a look at theories surrounding PNS Ghazi's mysterious sinking.

Unlike 2016, where most of the festivals of India fell on weekends, 2017 has quite a number of holidays falling on Mondays – 7 of the holidays in 2017 are on Mondays, 6 are on Saturdays, 5 on Fridays and behold, only 2 on Sundays! So, if you love the delicious respite a long weekend brings to your packed calendar, this is definitely the right time to start planning the epic adventures you are going to have next year.

Be it the Indo-Pak war of 1965 or the war of Kargil, Indian soldiers have always fought with exemplary courage, risking their lives time and again to defend their nation. We all have celebrated their victory and successes but how many of us have actually thought about the soldiers who who were severely wounded or declared disabled for the rest of their lives?

A great alternative for gardeners who don't have a lot of horizontal space or want to do something different, vertical gardens are also an eco-friendly way of turning a boring wall or a balcony from drab to fab. Here's is all you need to know to grow your own vertical garden at home.

An urge to serve the society pushed Sarbjeet Singh to set up a free canteen for cancer patients, drive a free funeral van for the poor and organize regular blood donation camps to help Shimla's hospitals.

In 1986, Dr. Suniti Solomon documented the first cases of the HIV infection in India. This is the little-known story of how this amazing doctor's work in HIV startled India's medical fraternity and pushed the government to act against the deadly disease 30 years ago.

Started by the inspiring Zuboni Humtsoe and her all-girls entrepreneurial team, Nagaland's Nungshiba Handicrafts uses left over fabrics to make unique handcrafted dolls that resemble the beautiful tribal women of northeast India.

A man whose genius transcended boundaries, Jagdish Chandra Bose was a quintessential polymath: a physicist, a biologist, a botanist, an archaeologist, an author and a connoisseur of fine arts. On his 158th birth anniversary, we bring you the story of his path breaking work on the discovery of plant stimuli.

It's time to take a closer look at what's on our platter, where it comes from and what we are feeding our families. And that is exactly what six families in Noida did. Worried that the food their children were eating was laden with chemicals, they decided to take up organic farming to source farm fresh vegetables for themselves !