/ According to locals’ responses the world’s happiest city in 2025 is Abu Dhabi with 96 per cent saying that their city makes them happy. Second place Medellin, the Colombian city, where locals found joy in their everyday experiences including energetic nightlife, followed by Cape Town, South Africa’s coastal city with blue flag beaches, Mexico City, Mexico, and Mumbai, India  Continue reading Top five Dream Cities of the world in 2025

Michael Leiters, who spent 13 years at Porsche before leaving to serces as chief Technology Officer at Ferrari and CEO of McLaren from 2022 to 2025, will be Porsche’s next CEO. Leiters worked for Porsche between 2000 and 2013 as head of both Macan and Cayenne lineups. Leiters will succeed Oliver Blume who has served as CEO for Porsche as well as VW group for  the last 10 years.  Continue reading Porsche’s new CEO

Millions of Hindu, Sikhs and Jains across the world are celebrating Diwali ( Festival of lights) symbolising the spiritual victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. In Ayodhya, India, a 2.6 million lamps were lit along the Saryu river bansk ahead of the festival, which is a Guinness World for the largest display of oil lamps beating last year’s record of 2.51 million lamps. Diwali in London, on Trafalgar Square which is the largest celebration on Sunday, October 27. Diwali also celebrated in the US, Canada, Australia, Paris, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia. Continue reading Millions celebrate Diwali around the world

Annie Ernaux’s investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who  died at six, two years before Annie was born. In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaus, the French authors was ten, she inadvertently overheard her mother tell an acquaintance that, before Anne’s birth, the family had another daughter who died of diphtheria at the age of six. It was kept a secret from little Anne so as not to upset her. Having believed she was an only child, she learns that she has replaced another daughter- “the little saint,” “the absent one in every conversation,” who lives on … Continue reading Annie’s parents’ wordless grief

Jon Fosse, award winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, in Vaim, in western Norway, begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village. Jatgeir travels from the fishing village of Vaim to the city in search of a needle and thread. Cheated twice, he returns to his boat, where he falls asleep as weaves rock the hull. Soon he is awakened by a voice: a woman is calling his name from the quay. There stands Eline, the secret love of his youth – and the namesake of his boat- with a packed suitcase. Eline pleads … Continue reading Out of this world caught in its rhythms