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Anesha George

Anesha George

Anesha is a features writer, sometimes a reader, who loves to eat and plan fitness goals she can never keep. She writes on food, culture and youth trends.

Articles by Anesha George

‘Breakfast isn’t colonial. It finds mention in the Ramayana’

Jadoh, a dish of red rice cooked with pork and spices, is sold early morning at food stalls in Shillong. (HT images via ChatGPT)

Updated on Jul 11, 2026 08:50 IST

We munch at dawn!: A look at the long, delicious history of the Indian breakfast

(HT images via ChatGPT)

Updated on Jul 11, 2026 08:59 IST

From YouTube to cinemas: Horror tales are bypassing studios to get to big screen

Backrooms stars Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor. Made on a budget of $10 million by 21-year-old YouTuber Kane Parsons, it has earned $330 million at the box office so far.

Updated on Jul 4, 2026 10:34 IST

Wicked little letters: Some of the world’s worst, and best, typos are on display

(HT Imaging)

Updated on Jun 20, 2026 14:07 IST

Revolt aboard a floating brothel?: Tahmima Anam discusses her new book

(Photo by Probir Das)

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 11:19 IST

Continuity error: Welcome to the age of the anti-romcom

(From left) The Drama, Beef Season 2 and Obsession look suspiciously like romcoms but feel nothing like them.They are depictions of love shaped by new labels and new identities navigated by a new generation.

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:40 IST

A newt dawn: Whitley awardee Barkha Subba discusses her fight for salamanders

(Photo by Anirban Datta Roy)

Updated on May 24, 2026 07:21 IST

Behind the seams: When caring feels exhausting, here’s how craftivism can help

The origami birds crowdsourced by WWF and hung outside Spain’s parliament, in an effort to protect a river, in 2016. (Image via M Navas for WWF)

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:43 IST

‘Tell me where it hurts’: Inside a videogame about life as a health worker

In the game, players must get women to talk about their health, gently probe if there are signs of negligence or abuse. If it feels tedious and exhausting, that’s exactly what the creators were going for.

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:47 IST

In an alternate universe: How will the Mandela Effect evolve, in the age of AI?

Mr Monopoly doesn’t have a monocle. The Planters food company mascot, Mr Peanut, does. Because of how the brain organises memory, we apply the monocle to both. That kind of mixed-up ‘memory’ is called the Mandela Effect.

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 11:37 IST

Closing the loop: See how Singapore is pushing for water self-sufficiency

MacRitchie reservoir is Singapore’s oldest catchment, completed in 1868 to address its water shortages. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 17, 2026 15:15 IST

H2... Whoa: In a world of water bankruptcy, a look at where we stand

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT)

Updated on Apr 17, 2026 15:02 IST

The revolution will not be...: A look at how the mind navigates defiance

A Banksy mural in Paris shows a Napoleonic figure in a headscarf, in an art work inspired by the marginalisation of refugees and by an early-19th-century painting, by Jacques-Louis David, of Napoleon crossing the Alps. (Images: Getty, Shutterstock; HT Imaging)

Updated on Apr 4, 2026 07:10 IST

Bot on earth?: Check out Gemini’s melodrama, Claude’s fibs, in an AI experiment

Who’s who? Spot Gemini the catastrophiser; Claude indulging in lavish self-praise (regardless of the results); and OpenAI’s easily distracted GPT-5 Thinking. (HT Illustrations via ChatGPT)

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 11:57 IST

Float like a butterfly: See dramatic early aerial photographs by Alfred Buckham

A photo titled Sunshine and Showers from 1920, captured by Buckham. Read on for more on how how composed his images, using bits drawn from other negatives in the same real. (National Galleries of Scotland)

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 10:47 IST

Meet the daredevil who captured some of the world’s first aerial photographs

Buckham in 1918. As a Royal Air Force pilot, he survived nine crash landings during World War 1, and went on to fearlessly shoot volcanoes, castles and more. (Collection of Richard and John Buckham)

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 10:40 IST

Think outside the bot: Indiscriminate use of AI may cause ‘cognitive debt’

. (HT Imaging; Adobe Stock)

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 10:32 IST

In photos: Artefacts from 1,000 years of samurai history

A still from the 2003 film When the Last Sword is Drawn. Many of the apocryphal legends about samurai were created, interestingly, by samurai.

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:09 IST

Cracks in the code : How much do we really know about the samurai?

A suit of armour from 1696, designed to make the wearer identifiable to comrades, and fearsome to the enemy. (British Museum)

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:05 IST

Party of one: A new anthology explores the many shapes of solitude

“Our goal was to show that this emotion is rooted in the social, cultural and political,” says editor Semeen Ali. “It is shaped by the structures of the very world we live in.”

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 10:16 IST

Claws for applause: See how birds are helping us improve cameras, drones, dyes

Apparel design researchers at Cornell University have created the world’s blackest black fabric, inspired by the striking plume of the riflebird. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 14:36 IST

Eyes on the sky: Studying birds? We must also study the sky

Built structures such as skyscrapers and wind farms are eating into new areas and new altitudes, posing risks to birds, bats and insects. (Pixabay)

Updated on Feb 1, 2026 10:27 IST

How to survive an asteroid: A look at how birds made it this far

Ancient ancestors to the brilliant array of birds we know today: (From left) Illustrations of Anchiornis huxleyi, Archaeopteryx. An avian from the enantiornithine group and the Asteriornis maastrichtensis, nicknamed the wonderchicken. It lived just over 66 million years ago, and survived the Chicxulub impactor. Spot the vibrant toucan, common hoopoe, paradise tanager, hummingbird, Hawaiian honeycreeper, sandhill crane and mandarin duck. (Wikimedia; Michael Rothman / Field Museum of Natural History; Natural History Museum; Shutterstock; Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 07:14 IST

A walk on the wild side: Photos from a five-decade visual archive of Ranthambore

There were once so few tigers at Ranthambore that sightings were rare, and largely restricted to nighttime. Above, an image taken by Kairav Engineer, after the park was revitalised by measures framed by Valmik Thapar and his mentor, conservationist Fateh Singh Rathore.

Updated on Jan 23, 2026 13:00 IST

Burn rate: Can we pass a global law against ecocide, and would it help?

Retreating Iraqi forces set fire to over 600 Kuwaiti oil wells during the 1991 Gulf War. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 16, 2026 13:55 IST

Batter and verse: In India, Christmas involves cake runs, kolam, folk songs

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via Midjourney)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 16:14 IST

From pocket planetarium to giant dome, see how humans have reached for the stars

With its 115-ft-diameter dome, Japan’s Nagoya City planetarium, is the world’s largest. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 14:56 IST

Fly me to the moon...: See how planetariums have zoomed forward, in 100 years

A show at the ESO Supernova Planetarium in Germany, built in 2018 with a 360-degree dome. Shows today invite visitors to zip through galaxies, tour clouds of asteroids, and observe meteors as they approach. (ESO / P Horálek)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 14:48 IST

Seeing double: Check out re-imagined versions of classics from within the Louvre

In his collage, Louvre Remix, the Beninese sculptor Georges Adeagbo places Eugene Delacroix’s famous painting of Liberty striding through a battlefield beside Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman dressed in the colours of the French flag – a seeming reminder that while the French standard (held aloft in the Liberty painting) signals freedom to those at home, it has meant very different things when it has travelled. (Mennour Archives, Paris)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 14:27 IST

Ctrl + See: Masterpieces from within the Louvre are getting a makeover

Rembrandt’s Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654) is re-imagined, by the Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming, as a portrait of the maid. (Wikimedia; Clerin-Morin, ADAGP, Paris)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 14:26 IST

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