[ad_1] One of the most enduring sights of Mumbai is the sea of blue tarpaulin that acts as roof to the settlements that surround the Chhatrapati Shivaji international airport. “It […]
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Kolkata’s Dhakeshwari idol: More clues unlocked
[ad_1] Could the vajra-dharan mudra, held by every deity in the Dhakeshwari idol tableau, have a link with Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, guru of Swami Vivekananda? Take a look at the image […]
Another side to summer: The Way We Were by Poonam Saxena
[ad_1] Living through these interminable days of blazing heat, every month seemingly among the hottest on record, all we can do is hunker down and ask ourselves: How are we […]
A lot of sweet nothings: Swetha Sivakumar on sugar-free highs
[ad_1] It was while analysing the chemical compounds in coal tar that Russian researcher Constantin Fahlberg of Johns Hopkins University discovered the world’s first artificial sweetener. After working in his […]
Table manors: Meet seven immigrant women who helped change how America eats
[ad_1] One of the easiest ways to say “This is us” is through food. Alongside race and dress, it is among the clearest markers of identity and “otherness”. It is […]
Ṭallī, kuṛī, baniyān: The intriguing story of where our words come from
[ad_1] Some magic hides in plain sight. Take the languages we speak. Each word represents not only itself — intricate, complicate, duplicate, communicate — but also the story of how […]
Set and match: Ludo meets chess in a new game called Squarace
[ad_1] Elements of two ancient Indian games, chess and ludo, have been blended to form a brand-new one — Squarace — in an unusual effort by a former ISRO engineer […]
From scrawny teen to the Liverpool team: Colombian football star Luis Diaz
[ad_1] The boy was so thin and small, anyone could nudge him off the ball. The coaches and talent scouts were in a quandary. The boy was also a wonder. […]
Keeping score: How to judge a gaming world
[ad_1] In April, The New York Times published a review of Elden Ring, the recent release by FromSoftware. The piece, by Brian X Chen, met with scorn and derision in […]
Spotted in the wild: A Wknd interview with Charudutt Mishra, snow leopard man
[ad_1] Nobody knows how many snow leopards there are in the wild, not even Charudutt Mishra, the world’s foremost expert on the big cat, and he’s been studying them for […]
Where ‘they’ ends and ‘we’ begins: Charles Assisi on AI
[ad_1] Just how people who write fiction exercise the “imagination muscle” is a question that has always intrigued me. It appears ridiculously tough. Friends familiar with the task tell me […]
At the end of her rope? The Wknd Puzzle by Dilip D’Souza
[ad_1] An old chestnut of a puzzle that we used to puzzle over as schoolkids involves an elastic rope and an intrepid ant, let’s call her Sharvari. The rope is […]
Here’s why you really must befriend a bore
[ad_1] How many friends do you have that you consider boring? Chances are, not many. A new study on what we consider boring, what else we draw from that inference […]
Inside the mind of the cereal filler: Swetha Sivakumar on breakfasts
[ad_1] It is ironic that ready-to-eat cereals, which are now sugar-laden and carb-heavy, started out as an ideal healthy breakfast. The first manufactured cereal is credited to James Caleb Jackson, […]
How Beethoven’s 9th, born #OTD, became a new world anthem
[ad_1] There’s a video on YouTube, shot at the Placa de Sant Roc in the small town of Sabadell in Spain. It opens with shots of the square, then moves […]
Bollywood is learning about the perils of vanity, says Anupama Chopra
[ad_1] The current mood in Bollywood is panic. Last week, two high-profile films, Heropanti 2 and Runway 34, with A-list stars (Tiger Shroff and Ajay Devgn), opened to sub-par numbers […]
Art on the moon, in a storage depot,near Everest: See how galleries are changing
[ad_1] A tiny art gallery on the moon; an artists’ residency at the foot of Mount Everest; an all-access warehouse museum in the Netherlands: A space for art can be […]
Man of the mat: Meet Siddharth Singh, India’s Brazilian-jiu-jitsu champ
[ad_1] Everything was going well in Siddharth Singh’s life. After Doon School, Delhi University and University of St Andrews in Scotland, he got a well-paid job as regional business manager […]
‘A museum must never be seen as a dead space where old things are stored’
[ad_1] He has designed a state-of-the-art display for a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy in Hyderabad; equipped a new museum in Kerala with a hologram that lets visitors “talk” to late CM […]
Navigating the gift of a second chance: With Love by Simran Mangharam
[ad_1] On my morning walks in the park, I have made new friends across age groups. One of these, Roopa, is a cheerful, sprightly 74-year-old who has lived alone since […]
