Champions League: The sign of four

• After much drama and great football, Liverpool, Barcelona, Tottenham and Ajax make it to the semi-finals
• Barcelona and Liverpool, the two favourites, play each other, while dark horses Tottenham and Ajax face off in the other game

Why companies serve up goodies to woo top talent

Companies are welcoming new recruits with bouquets, laptops and special events even before they join to build trust and a sense of community

Sampling different roles is a great confidence builder

Gayatri Dowarah says her suggestion for anyone joining the corporate world would be to voice your opinion and be heard

Dark chapters of mankind: The Apartheid Museum

• The museum in Johannesburg provides insight into the turbulent history of South Africa
• Photographs and other exhibits tell stories of the atrocities committed against the non-white population

Love, work and religion on Inle Lake

• The residents of the villages surrounding this lake in Myanmar have adapted to a unique way of life on the water
• Inle Lake has 17 villages built on stilts and almost 200,000 people living out their lives on the water

Formula One’s 1,000th race

• F1 celebrates it’s 1,000th world championship race this weekend at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai
• The number is controversial because of F1’s convoluted history

Something to chew on

• Vedary, a holistic wellness centre, finds a good fit with Austria’s famed Mayr method of natural healing
• The wellness programme assesses various personal parameters to give an insight into a person’s emotional and mental state

Is the power within you?

• Serbian dance, group huddles, emotional eating— self-development workshops are getting increasingly creative
• HYL, which has millions of followers around the world, has transformed entrepreneurs, sportspersons, artists and survivors of life-threatening diseases

A crowdsourced micellar water for India

• Homegrown beauty rand Just Herbs is launching a crowdsourced micellar water with feedback from users and experts across India
• The micellar water slated to launch this month is infused with Ayurvedic ingredients

The method behind the madness

• Squash player Saurav Ghoshal, for the first time in his career has made the world top 10
• Ghoshal had set his eyes on cracking the top 10 in 2014 after the team gold at the Asian Games in Incheon

Jazz, hip hop as a storytelling tool

• The debut album by rapper-producer Siva Baskaran entails music production with a penchant for science-fiction storytelling
• Baskaran’s Native Indian’s project was conceived four years ago

Calling on a cancer coach

• Cancer coaches in the country are helping patients find their inner strength to battle the dreaded disease
• Cancer is often described as a 'deadly' disease, along with terms such as 'amputate' and 'excision'. How to change that conversation?

Repurposing kitchen waste and making discards delicious

• Chefs in India are moving towards zero-waste cooking
• Instead of ending up in the trash can, kitchen scraps are now becoming exciting ingredients to experiment with

Masaba celebrates 10 years in fashion

• Masaba Gupta is an active collaborator - her recent collaborations include those for Tribe by Amrapali, Ekaya and her upcoming line of products for Game of Thrones line
• Marking 10 years of her label, Gupta is expanding her label with plans for over 50 stores in India and overseas

Voices from Jallianwala Bagh

• This anthology collects literary responses to the mass killing of Indians at Jallianwallah Bagh in 1919
• From Mulk Raj Anand to Sadat Hasan Manto, several important names from the subcontinent appear in it

Jallianwala Bagh: The massacre that shook the empire

• While the Hunter Commission put the number of dead at 379, Congress leaders claimed 1,500 died in Jallianwala Bagh
• The massacre shocked the conscience of many Indians who believed in the British idea of rule of law