Articles by Anesha George
Wood omens: What will the forests of the future look like?
In experiments that mimic conditions of the near future, some trees look set to thrive. With others, it's now a case of learning all we can before they’re gone.

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 04:40 PM IST
Stop, sob, scroll: A look at the viral formula of ‘crying videos’
Influencers are making millions posting teary videos called sadbait – tales of heartbreak, job loss, their love for their mother. What makes this work?

Updated on May 31, 2025 10:50 PM IST
Designer Vino Supraja is winning awards for an unusual fashion formula
She encourages people to buy less; sell her products back to her. Her clothes and bags feature elements of Tamil culture, reinterpreted.

Updated on May 30, 2025 05:13 PM IST
Why the cart is always full: The rise of the microtrend in fashion
How did the rebellion of the Sixties, the trendy Japanese schoolgirl and the rise of fast fashion change the way we all pick our clothes? Take a look.

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:25 PM IST
King Louis IX to birth of couture: The surprising history of fashion forecasting
The industry is about 350 years old. See why Paris is at its heart. Who invented the design label. Where colour trends were born. And how all this affects you.

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:23 PM IST
The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide
India is third on the list of countries with the wealthiest billionaires. Meanwhile, less than 38% of households own a refrigerator.

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 AM IST
Where is the love? See why couples are breaking up, in the world of birds
Species known to pair for life – penguins, petrels, cranes – are falling out. The real culprits, lurking in the shadows: altered habitats and the climate crisis

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:03 PM IST
Leaps of fate: See how people of the past attempted to predict the future
Spiders, parchment, bone and complex math were among the methods ancient cultures used. What drives this need? Who are the soothsayers in our midst today?

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 05:26 PM IST
That sudden urge to jump from a high place? It has a name: the call of the void
See how the urge to leap likely served an evolutionary purpose - and how it is connected to a larger group of strange musings, called intrusive thoughts.

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 04:20 PM IST
The best seats in the world: A look at seven mega-stadiums now being built
Stadiums are where history is made – sites of protest and celebration, shared experiences. New formats are adding rooftop gardens, cafes, timber work, walkways.

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 05:39 PM IST
A Beta world: A peek into the future of the next generation
A majority of Gen Beta will live into the 22nd century. They'll be the first to grow up with AI, says Mark McCrindle, who coined the terms Gen Alpha and Beta.

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 03:26 PM IST
A ‘Google Maps’ for Low-Earth Orbit?: Meet founders of space start-up Digantara
Their first tracker is now in orbit. A series of these will eventuallly generate live maps of satellites,fragments from old vessels, and debris as small as 5 cm

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 02:44 PM IST
Art, food, foraging: Inside India’s chef residencies
A chef walks into an art gallery. Five move to a farm... At residencies across India, chefs are rooting for rare tubers, swapping recipes, discovering new hacks

Updated on Mar 01, 2025 12:03 PM IST
Code breakers: Could gene editing ready species for a rapidly changing world?
Hybrid crops, once-extinct animals, a new kind of human: How much of the tinkering is advisable? How much will soon be vital, for food, conservation, health?

Updated on Feb 28, 2025 04:23 PM IST
A truck driver’s son, an orderly: Graphic novel explores who can be a scientist
They don’t all have crazy hair. They didn’t all show early signs of genius. See how 12 individuals took unexpected paths to becoming researchers.

Updated on Feb 28, 2025 03:48 PM IST
Lore, legend and just so many syllables: OED is in the midst of a revamp
How does one track a language evolving so fast? Efforts have involved JRR Tolkein, K-dramas, and a red post box that still stands outside a home in Oxford.

Updated on Feb 14, 2025 07:00 PM IST
Heads or tales?: A new photo project focuses on the stray dogs of Goa
With few humans in the frame, Rain Dogs offers an unusual perspective: the interior lives of dogs, a species we're used to seeing with their eyes trained on us.

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 06:46 PM IST
Somewhere Rover the rainbow : Unusual memorials for pets around the world
A matchbox coffin for a fly who once lived in an office; a headstone for a messenger pigeon; a snail who ‘lived life well’... vignettes from a new book.

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 06:38 PM IST
Ads, dresses, spindly elephants: More from the Dali universe
He created illustrations and covers for magazines, sets for a ballet, designed dresses and commercial art. Here are more samples of the master artist’s work.

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 06:26 PM IST
Trail mix: Check out photographs by the award-winning Steve Winter
His images have helped push for new infrastructure, new laws. Some are just impossibly beautiful views of the natural world beyond what most of us know of it.

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 07:04 PM IST
Twist in the pot: Indian cookbooks are celebrating new kinds of mixed heritage
A chivda made with Froot Loops. A palak-paneer spanakopita. Shrikhand cannolis. Take a tour of joyful experiments, old longings and new perspectives.

Updated on Dec 01, 2024 09:02 AM IST
Sick with worry?: A look at the arc of hypochondria
From kings with ‘glass delusion’ to fretful names from the worlds of art and literature, the story of hypochondria is a long and riveting one.

Updated on Nov 09, 2024 07:42 PM IST
Swipe, match, repeat?: How to get more out of your dating apps
It isn’t easy. It often isn’t even fun. Amid the many evolving hacks and rules, what can you do differently? Here are our top tips from the experts.

Updated on Nov 02, 2024 01:36 PM IST
Match point: If dating is a track event, what kind of runner are you?
Amid hurdles, qualifiers, red cards and scorekeeping, it's begun to feel a lot like a competitive sport. Are you a sprinter,marathoner or hobby runner? Find out

Updated on Nov 02, 2024 01:34 PM IST
In photos: Take a look at some of Abu Abraham’s most iconic political cartoons
Decades later, they elicit a chuckle. The art is minimalist, but memorable. In the iconic cartoonist's centenary year, a tour of some of his best-loved work.

Updated on Nov 01, 2024 08:32 PM IST
Are there lessons for managing AI, climate, in tales from 1,000 years ago?
What could the first-ever financial crash teach us about AI? Are there clues to tackling climate change, in slave revolts? Take a look.

Updated on Oct 26, 2024 04:15 PM IST
Lost manuscripts, whirlwind romances: When movies leave a paper trail
Check out a book on the bro code, another by Ant-Man, a memoir by Selina Meyer of Veep, and other dramatic and whimsical tales emerging from films and TV.

Updated on Oct 26, 2024 04:13 PM IST
Going bunkers on screen: See how tech-driven dystopias have played out
Since almost its start, cinema has worked to explore the possible evolutions and fallouts of emerging technology. How have hyper-digital worlds played out?

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 07:59 PM IST
Rivals, pirates, malware: Whispers of cyberthreats from the future
As consumer devices explode and suspicious code turns up in new places, the digital battlefield is changing shape. Are we as well-prepared as we should be?

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 08:00 PM IST
Ballast from the past: How did Bronze Age boats sail the open seas?
Using an ancient recipe – with no nails, screws or metal – researchers in Abu Dhabi have created a Magan boat similar to those that sailed 4,000 years ago.

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 04:02 PM IST