Singapore’s First Female F4 Driver: Kareen Kaur’s Fast-Track to Formula 4

Singapore’s First Female F4 Driver: Kareen Kaur’s Fast-Track to Formula 4

Lifestyle10 minutes ago

She cannot legally drive on public roads yet, but 16-year-old Kareen Kaur is already hitting speeds well over 220km/h on the race track.

When tabla! last caught up with the CHIJ (Secondary) student in 2024, she came in fourth and was the top-placed female driver in the Rok Cup Singapore – a premier national kart racing championship that showcases the next generation of homegrown motorsport talent.

Fast forward two years, and Kareen has traded go-karts for single-seaters as an Evans...

An Intercommunal Charity Lifeline in Chinatown

An Intercommunal Charity Lifeline in Chinatown

Communityabout 1 hour ago

Behind the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in Chinatown early Sunday morning on Oct 4, an unassuming charity operation quietly got to work.

By 7.45am, supporters and volunteers had arrived with boxes of household essentials. There was already a queue.

At about 8.15am, the volunteers started to distribute bread, rice, eggs, talcum powder, and other household necessities.

Many of the 150 beneficiaries were elderly, with several arriving in wheelchairs.

From Bedok’s HDB Flats to Bollywood Dreams

From Bedok’s HDB Flats to Bollywood Dreams

Cultureabout 1 hour ago

Rishi Budhrani and K.P. Sandhu bring three decades of friendship, ambition and showbiz adventures to Kalaa Utsavam 2026

What does it take for two Singaporean boys growing up in HDB flats, watching Shah Rukh Khan movies and dreaming of Bollywood stardom, to chase their ambitions all the way to Mumbai?

The answer promises plenty of laughter, nostalgia, romance and heartbreak in Bedok to Bollywood, one of the headline productions at this year’s Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of Arts, presented...

Theatrical Wonderland with Krish Natarajan

Theatrical Wonderland with Krish Natarajan

Cultureabout 1 hour ago

Mr Krish Natarajan is a theatrical Swiss Army knife – from writing to directing, to producing and, of course, acting. His latest project is as a writer and director for Sight Lines Entertainment’s Crack the Case: Wonderland.

Crack the Case plays blend escape rooms and theatre, with sections for solving and interacting with the cast, as well as scripted sequences.

Mr Krish, 30, was one of the founding ideators of the concept for the company, with the goal for both...

Soorya Krishnamoorthy: The Scientist Who Gave His Life to the Arts

Soorya Krishnamoorthy: The Scientist Who Gave His Life to the Arts

Communityabout 1 hour ago

By day, he worked on India’s space programme. By evening, he built a cultural movement that would eventually take Indian music, dance, theatre and cinema across the world.

Mr Soorya Krishnamoorthy, who died in Thiruvananthapuram on Sept 23 following complications from pneumonia and a liver-related illness, belonged to that rare breed for whom science and art were not opposing worlds.

Born Nataraja Krishnamoorthy on April 11, 1951, he graduated in electrical engineering from TKM College of Engineering in 1972 and...