Another Indian making waves in social media who inspired her legion of fans at the Sharjah International Book fair was YouTube sensation Lilly Singh. .

BY now, most people probably have read or heard about Greta Thunberg – a 16-year-old Swedish teen climate activist who has captured the world’s attention after her blunt speeches at the UN and elsewhere against the culprits of climate change.  .

IF you are thinking of growing plants – any variety for that matter – that are easy to grow, colourful, popular and quick to produce results, then that variety should be the common balsam.  .

MANY people habitually or ambitiously crave for possessions, often ending up buying things they later realise they actually don’t need, hardly use or worse still – can actually do without and hence a waste of money.

HAMDA Naoko isn’t at the point of giving up. The former Naoko Kishida who married an Emirati and has regarded the United Arab Emirates home for the past 30 years, has been trying hard to change the Japanese mindset about Arabs and Islam through her books and translations with little success.

PEOPLE claim that music is an international language. In reality, who can understand it when professional musicians start using terms like “Baroque”, “technical etude”, “scales”, “arpeggios”, “aural” or “sight-reading” in their speeches? .

ORNAMENTAL plants comprise a very large number of widely cultivated shrubs, leafy and flowering plants, creepers, climbers, ferns, cacti, succulents, woody and herbaceous plants. The group also includes various kinds of palms and trees which are always popular and in great demand, as well as bulbous plants and ferns. .

LONG time ago there lived a poor farmer with his wife who bought a mousetrap. The mouse of the house became terrified. He looked out of his mousehole and panicked.

COMPETING against 35,000 speakers from 142 countries and emerging champion is no walk in the park even if public speaking is what you think you have been cut out for. Manoj Vasudevan knew it was not a skill he was born with but one he had to acquire with help from being a Toastmaster. In 2017, he did it by being Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking. .

FOR 37 years, the United Arab Emirates and specifically Sharjah – one of the seven provinces or sheikhdoms that hug the Arab peninsula – have been attracting renowned writers and intellectuals the world over. .