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How is one to keep up with it all? Charles Assisi offers tips in Life Hacks
[ad_1] All pride has a shelf life, as the saying goes. The truth of this was brought home to me during a recent conversation with my teenage kid. I was […]
Instant hit: Swetha Sivakumar on how a war sparked the birth of the noodle craze
[ad_1] In 1945, after Japan surrendered to the Allies, a young man named Momofuku Ando was walking through the streets of war-ravaged Osaka when he saw a long line of […]
Beyond the mouse: How the click became the soundtrack of our lives
[ad_1] The most reassuring sound in modern life is one everyone hears but no one registers anymore. It’s tiny, as sounds go; it’s only got one note. One probably hears […]
A new sea monster: See how light pollution is disturbing the ocean depths
[ad_1] City lights are disturbing the darkness as much as 40 metres below the surface of the seas, a new world atlas of oceanic light pollution has found. The atlas […]
Architect Gita Balakrishnan is walking from Kolkata to Delhi with a message
[ad_1] “It was not meant to be so hot,” says architect Gita Balakrishnan. When she set off from Kolkata on February 13, planning to walk to New Delhi over two […]
Bollywood could do with some of Rajamouli’s secret sauce: Anupama Chopra on RRR
[ad_1] In April 2017, just after watching Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, I posted the following tweet: “Stardom is defined as the power to get bums on seats. The response to […]
How much did they get right? A look at films set in 2022
[ad_1] By 2022, or so the movies had it, humankind would either have run out of food, seen society fall apart, or found solutions to its battle for survival on […]
Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling
[ad_1] Intro: Where does speculative fiction go in a dystopia? New genres suggest that the most likely directions are upward and onward, through stories that champion hope and optimism, collective […]
Flash drive: Meet the mother and son touring India anew every summer
[ad_1] For Mitra Satheesh and her 10-year-old son Narayan Satheesh, the pandemic will always be linked to a summer road trip that was just the two of them, and their […]
Dream scapes: How cities of the future are shaping up around the world
[ad_1] Somewhere in north-western Saudi Arabia, plans for an ambitious new city are taking shape. Neom, being constructed at the cost of $500 billion, is hoping to be “the most […]
The last thing you’ll do as a couple: Simran Mangharam on closure
[ad_1] Every break-up is its own kind of tragedy. Even when both people in a relationship sense that it is nearing its end, the person who actually ends it usually […]
On his own trip: See how a 21-year-old travelled to 40 countries in 4 years
[ad_1] A great way to start a conversation in Azerbaijan is by talking about the TV serial Ramayan (1987); it is still remembered there, for its opulent sets and costumes. […]
What’s in store for India’s coastal cities?
[ad_1] Indonesia is shifting its capital, partly in an attempt to get away from the sea. Jakarta, its current capital city, sits on the island of Java, a narrow strip […]
An uneven score: Rudraneil Sengupta on the Will Smith film King Richard
[ad_1] It is a pity that Will Smith’s violent outburst at the Oscars has drawn attention away from the film he won Best Actor for. Ironically, it’s about a man […]
He was cheerful, loving: Pt Ravi Shankar’s wife Sukanya Shankar looks back
[ad_1] His last words were, “I could have been a better musician,” says Sukanya Shankar, of her late husband, Pandit Ravi Shankar. He was a maestro who never met his […]
A fanciful flight plan: The Wknd Puzzle by Dilip D’Souza
[ad_1] I’ve heard and thought about variants of this puzzle several times, and they always remind me of the tragedy of Amelia Earhart. She and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared […]
Drive My Car: Japan’s first film up for a Best Picture Oscar is exquisite
[ad_1] Can I persuade you to watch a three-hour Japanese film about the hesitant, fragile relationship between a theatre director-and-actor, still grieving and desperately trying to decode the actions of […]
Mafia! There’s a Godfather parody too
[ad_1] Were it not for VHS tapes and the local video library, kids of the 1990s might never have heard of Mafia! (1998). The oddly named movie (it’s also called […]
Bad guys, good moments: 6 key scenes from the Godfather trilogy
[ad_1] There have been films about the mafia before The Godfather (1972) and there have been films since. But Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel isn’t just […]