Author Ritish Sharma
Adam James had been putting off going to a music festival for years. Not because he didn’t want to. He loves music deeply – he’s an aspiring drum and bass DJ who performs under the name Adzo, and the thought… Continue Reading →
His surname means destruction in Hindi. ‘Tabahi’. That’s the name he goes by on social media, the name people know him by, the name that spread across the internet this year attached to videos of a young man standing knee-deep… Continue Reading →
Summer in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and a group of kids at the Woonsocket Motor Inn had a problem. Two new friends had just moved into the motel. And unlike everyone else in the friend group, they didn’t have bikes. No… Continue Reading →
On the morning of August 10, 2026, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, the strongest to hit the country in a decade. At least 181 people were killed and more than 2,595 injured. More than 1,500 homes were damaged… Continue Reading →
Last week I had a genuinely fine day. Nothing broke, nobody was upset with me, no inbox disaster, no “we need to talk” text. And by 6pm I caught myself thinking, quite seriously, “okay, what am I forgetting.” Nothing. I… Continue Reading →
It was a Tuesday in Bengaluru, and Yana was decorating a cake. She was pressing candles into the icing – the number 40, two candles shaped like digits- and her young daughter was watching from nearby, fidgeting with the particular… Continue Reading →
William Pertek and Manek Miquel were 21 years old, French, and standing by the side of a road in Queensland with a handwritten cardboard sign and a plan that most people in their lives had already written off. “You will… Continue Reading →
From the moment Jordan Wilmore started growing, the advice was consistent. You’re 7 foot 3. You should play basketball. You could make millions. Why would you want to do anything else? He heard it his whole life. From coaches, from… Continue Reading →
Note: This Kindness Report is a little different from the usual ones. It’s not one story – it’s many. And it happened right here in India, this week, in a city some of us call home. For nearly two months,… Continue Reading →
Every morning, before most of his neighbors had finished their first cup of coffee, a four-year-old boy named Roman was already at the door. Waiting. Watching. Ready. The garbage truck would rumble past and Roman waved. An Amazon driver slowed… Continue Reading →
It was a routine food delivery. The kind that happens a thousand times a day in every city, in every apartment building, in every life that’s too busy to cook on a Tuesday evening. The delivery executive handed over the… Continue Reading →
Debbie’s lawn had been growing out of control for a while. That much was visible from the street. But what wasn’t visible (what you couldn’t know just by driving past) was everything else that had piled up alongside the grass…. Continue Reading →
In May 2022, just after his eighth-grade year, a 14-year-old boy from Kansas City named Dylan Mwaniki was diagnosed with renal medullary carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of Stage 4 kidney cancer. Doctors told his family he had maybe… Continue Reading →
The final whistle blew on a 2-2 draw between Japan and the Netherlands at Dallas Stadium. Group F, opening week of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. This is the kind of result that leaves you a little deflated either way,… Continue Reading →
There’s a decision that every dog owner dreads from the moment they bring a puppy home. You don’t talk about it much. You try not to think about it. But somewhere in the back of your mind, you know it’s… Continue Reading →
He knew exactly what was happening to him. That was both the advantage and the terror of it. As a specialist anaesthetist with a background in intensive care medicine, when an odd ache settled in the middle of his chest… Continue Reading →
Davis Roethler shows up with a squeegee and an offer: let me clean your windows, no charge. For a restaurant owner already stretched thin on margins, already watching costs eat into everything, already quietly wondering how long they can keep… Continue Reading →
Deputy Foster Tracy of the Rancho Cordova Sheriff’s Department showed up to what looked like a routine call. A woman sitting between two bushes near a business. Suspicious activity, maybe. Something to check on, nothing more. He was not prepared… Continue Reading →
There’s a version of the internet that most of us are pretty tired of. The one that runs on outrage and hot takes and people performing opinions at each other. The one that makes you feel vaguely worse about everything… Continue Reading →
There are days when nothing extraordinary happens, and yet everything feels just right in a quiet, ordinary way. The coffee tastes exactly how it should. The inbox is not threatening your existence. You manage to write something without immediately questioning… Continue Reading →
There’s a kind of lie we’ve all absorbed somewhere along the way, so quietly that most of us don’t even notice it’s there. It’s the one that tells you there’s a right time to start something, and once that window… Continue Reading →