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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.

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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.

Pipes pump carbon into the air above a contained canopy, in an experiment underway in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. (Courtesy AmazonFACE)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 04:40 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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?

A sadbait meme. With sadbait, grief is the product, and catharsis is the promised reward for the viewer.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 31, 2025 10:50 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

‘I’ve grown to accept that when I’m willing to let go, be dismantled and reassembled, good things happen to me,’ Supraja says. (Photo: Deepak Renganathan)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 30, 2025 05:13 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

King Louis XIV (r. 1643 -1715) is the reason we have ‘royal’ blue. Also above, gowns from 18th-century England and China. 19th-century Paris, 20th-century Australia, and H&M and Zara collections from 2025 and ’24. (National Museum of China, Wiki-media, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:25 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

In the 1850s, Charles Frederick Worth began to sew tags into his designs, bearing his name. This made him, essentially, the inventor of the “fashion label”. (Above) The Worth label on a Russian court dress from 1888. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:23 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Viewed as a separate country, India 1 - made up of the top 10% - would consist of about 140 million people, with per capita income at about <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>12.80 lakh. (Pixabay)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 AM IST

ByAnesha George

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

On Australia’s Phillip Island, fertility rates are down, and separation rates within the world’s largest colony of penguins are shooting up. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:03 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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?

A 19th-century Chinese wheel of fortune. (Courtesy Divination, Oracles & Omens)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 05:26 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 04:20 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

In a nod to Morocco’s rich culture and nomadic past, the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca is being built to resemble a massive tent. (Oualalou + Choi)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 05:39 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 03:26 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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

Anirudh Sharma, Tanveer Ahmed and Rahul Rawat at the Digantara lab in Bengaluru. (Samuel Rajkumar / HT Photo)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 02:44 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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

A lunch hosted by Spudnik Farms to mark the end of a residency. (Spudnik Farms)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 01, 2025 12:03 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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?

(HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar. Images: Midjourney, Glenn Ramit, Innovative Genomics Institute, Colossal Biosciences, Pairwise)

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 28, 2025 04:23 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Becoming a Scientist, available free online, is aimed at readers aged 12 to 18. Created by Adrian Liston, a professor of pathology, it hopes to inspire young people to consider careers in these fields.

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 28, 2025 03:48 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 14, 2025 07:00 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Photographer Rohit Chawla has had exhibitions around the world, featuring powerful art and award-winning projects, but this one is closest to his heart, he says. (Rohit Chawla / Rain Dogs)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 06:46 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

The grave of Jonny, a snail that lived for over a year in a man’s backyard in Los Angeles. (Paul Koudounaris)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 06:38 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

The iconic lobster dress created in collaboration with fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 06:26 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

A leopard walks through a residential neighbourhood in India. Leopard-human conflict has been on the rise here, as cities and towns encroach into dwindling forests. (Photo: Steve Winter / Big Cat Voices)

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 07:04 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Meat blintzes by Elana Benjamin, a Baghdadi Jew in Australia. A range of fermented hot pepper sauces by Indian-Guyanese-Canadian Devan Rajkumar. Keralan fried chicken sandwiches with a curry leaf mayo by Khushbu Shah, a Gujarati in the US. (Photos:Shibani Mishra, Suech and Beck, Aubrie Pick)

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 01, 2024 09:02 AM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Girl Before A Mirror (1932) by Pablo Picasso. (Wikimedia)

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 09, 2024 07:42 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

In Nobody Wants This (2024-), Kristen Bell’s character develops the ick for the otherwise loveable Noah (played by Adam Brody). His fouls: Referring to a blazer as a sports coat, carrying enormous sunflowers, and using a fake Italian accent in a joke.

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 02, 2024 01:36 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 02, 2024 01:34 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

A take on the language wars. (Image courtesy Ayisha Abraham)

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 01, 2024 08:32 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

A painting of the Nihonbashi Fish Market in 18th-century Edo, Japan. (Wikimedia Commons)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 26, 2024 04:15 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 26, 2024 04:13 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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?

As satellites fail and communication systems blink out, smart cars go rogue and block highways in the Netflix film Leave the World Behind (2023).

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 07:59 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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?

The threat of outages is real too. The US’s computer model DAGGER uses AI and other algorithms to analyse solar wind and geomagnetic disturbances and predict their likely impact worldwide, at least 30 minutes before they occur. (NASA / ESA / SOHO)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 08:00 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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.

(Photo courtesy Emily Harris / Zayed National Museum)

Art and Culture

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 04:02 PM IST

ByAnesha George

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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.

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.

Influencers are making millions posting teary videos called sadbait – tales of heartbreak, job loss, their love for their mother. What makes this work?

She encourages people to buy less; sell her products back to her. Her clothes and bags feature elements of Tamil culture, reinterpreted.

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.

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.

India is third on the list of countries with the wealthiest billionaires. Meanwhile, less than 38% of households own a refrigerator.

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

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?

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.

Stadiums are where history is made – sites of protest and celebration, shared experiences. New formats are adding rooftop gardens, cafes, timber work, walkways.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A chivda made with Froot Loops. A palak-paneer spanakopita. Shrikhand cannolis. Take a tour of joyful experiments, old longings and new perspectives.

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.

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.

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

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.

What could the first-ever financial crash teach us about AI? Are there clues to tackling climate change, in slave revolts? Take a look.

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.

Since almost its start, cinema has worked to explore the possible evolutions and fallouts of emerging technology. How have hyper-digital worlds played out?

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?

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.

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