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    Khristina Patra

    Khristina Patra

  • This 7-min love story will move you to tears

    This Mother's Day, as I watch this inspiring love story called My Beautiful Woman: The Secret of Jane, I understand what my mother meant about love.

  • Through the eyes of a Visual Storyteller

    Yahoo's Khristina Jacob caught up with Nishant Ratnakar recently to speak about his passion for photography, weddings and the career and business of wedding photography in India. Take a look at the excerpts:

  • Breads of the world

    If you give it a thought, you will realise that most cultures, most regions of the world have but one thing in common. They all, albeit in various forms, make and eat bread. From the Indian flat bread, or roti, to the Lebanese pita, and the English sourdough, different parts of the world enjoy the wonderful flavour of wheat, kneaded into a dough and baked/toasted.

  • Let's Debate: College dress code, yes or no?

    The dress code issue has for long plagued the Indian education system, and most importantly collages around the country. However, since the year 2012, this seems to have blown into a frenzy, with more and more colleges are enforcing these rules for reasons ranging from indecency and vulgarity to protection of Indian culture and even maintaining discipline.

  • The Bad Touch: Real people talk about their Child Sex Abuse experience and how they overcame it

    As per the National Study on Child Abuse in April 2007, Ministry of Women and Child Development and other small scale qualitative study done by NGOs: Over 53% children in India have been abused at least once in their lifetime.

  • You can be a MasterChef at home too

    The current season of MasterChef Australia is as eye-poppingly wondrous as it is depressing. Eye-poppingly wondrous because of the quality of technique shown by the contestants, who are only but home cooks; and depressing because one would tend to question if he or she could be able to do the same in their own homes (the answer, after all, is overwhelmingly negative).

  • What is the similarity between European and Indian food?

    Chef Adriano Baldassarre is a fiercely passionate European chef. The kind that will cook you your main course all over again, if you happen to allow it to 'wait for you' while you take a break between courses to powder your nose. And that's what makes him so sought-after.

  • Daddy's home: A Father's Day tribute to my dad

    When my sister and I were little, our dad would announce his arrival every evening by whistling outside the window. It was a ritual; we would hear his Rajdoot motorcycle rumble to a stop, and then the familiar whistle would follow. My sister and would leave everything we were doing and rush out to greet him.

  • Father's day special: 'I didn't like my father'

    The story is about a boy who is frustrated with his father's unambitious nature. Desperate to do better in life, he goes abroad, only to find his father's secret years later.

  • Meet India's first surfer girl

    "In India, girl is expected to go to school, start working, get married, and have babies. It's crazy. I would have never in my wildest dreams, ever imagine that I would be the first female surfer in India." This is Ishita Malaviya's story, a girl who was sent by her parents to study Journalism, and how she caught the "surf" bug.

  • She's already so beautiful. Why use enhancing software?

    We have some stringent beauty ideals today. Young men and women, especially women, are conscious about magazine covers and the kind of beauty portrayed on it. So how can you explain to them when this kind of beauty is really a fake?

  • Read this and ask yourself, are you racist?

    If you thought racism is not an issue in India, you are hugely mistaken. In the land of diverse cultures and castes, racism has become such an intrinsic part of daily life that they are used as "harmless" jokes.

  • My daughter, Malala

    Ziauddin Yousafzai is the father of one of the most famous women today, Malala Yousafzai. And in this video, he talks about a familiar problem of being born and raised in a patriarchal society. Women learn obedience, and men learn honour. And somewhere in between obedience and honour, so many children are crying out in pain.

  • Dads experience what it is like to give birth

    If you have experienced labour, and you come across two men who would dare to simulate that pain, what would you do? Most women would laugh.

  • Your kids are watching your every move. What are you teaching them?

    During a child's early years, the parent is the biggest teacher. A child will learn how to mimic his/her parent's actions, words and personality.

  • Are crows the most brilliant of birds?

    How can we determine how smart the crow actually is? This video will show you, and surprise you how intelligent this bird really is.

  • Everyone told this father to give his severely autistic child up, but he didn't. And something amazing happened.

    For the multiple therapists offering grueling hours of therapy every single day, the results were excruciatingly slow. At one point, friends and medical experts told Arthur, Carly's father, to give her up to a medical institution. But his response was simple. How can you give up your own child?

  • How happy are you? Dance to the 'happy' tune

    In a world where there are too many reasons to be disappointed and worried, take some time out to smile and share some smiles.

  • A note to an expecting mother of a child with Down Syndrome: #DearFutureMom

    March 21 is celebrated all over the world as World Down Syndrome Day. CoorDown, coordinator of the Italian National Association of people with Down syndrome posted this heartwarming video that brought together 15 kids with Down Syndome from around the world.

  • Show some gratutide to the women in your life today

    So dear men, take a moment to show some gratitude to the women in your life. Not just today, not just this month, but all year round.