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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

A long shelf life: How a book stall in a market became Rupa publishers

A crowd gathers outside the Rupa office in Kolkata in 1976, to buy early copies of Sunil Gavaskar’s autobiography, Sunny Days. (Courtesy Never Out of Print)

Updated on Feb 9, 2024 15:19 IST

Rock, paper, fissures: Answering questions around the continent of Zealandia

The topography of Zealandia, outlined in pink. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Feb 3, 2024 09:26 IST

Un-hintered access: The Book of Bihari Literature holds many surprises

A streetscape in Patna, painted by British civil servant Charles D’Oyly, in 1825. (WIkimedia Commons)

Updated on Jan 27, 2024 11:14 IST

Who was Aphra Behn? A look at a trailblazing 17th-century poet, writer, spy

Born in Canterbury in 1640, Behn died at 48, and is buried at Westminster Abbey. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 09:39 IST

Contested Will: What is Shakespeare’s true linguistic legacy?

(Clockwise from bottom left) King Lear, the Fool, Romeo and Juliet, Lord and Lady Macbeth, Othello and Desdemona, The Three Witches. (Top centre) William Shakespeare (1564-1616). (Photos: Getty Images, Adobe stock, Wikimedia Commons; Photo Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 10:27 IST

Guest practices: Towns around the world are turning tourists politely away

Tourists at the Acropolis, which is set to cap the number of visitors at 20,000 a day. (AP)

Updated on Jan 13, 2024 10:12 IST

Mardon Wali Baat: An interactive web comic is helping reimagine masculinity

Rushed a first kiss? Stumbled upon someone else’s secret? With every option selected as a scenario plays out on mardonwalibaat.com, a pop-up box appears to explain why it may or may not be the ideal choice.

Updated on Dec 23, 2023 15:29 IST

How did hue get there? A colour-mapping project is peering at pigments in art

A 12th- century palm leaf manuscript is examined as part of the project, at the Asiatic Society, Mumbai. (Mapping Color in History)

Updated on Dec 15, 2023 16:58 IST

Mera Wala Grief: A podcast that became a space for tears, fears, silence

Ghosh says her idea was for the podcast to show that grief is not just dark and morbid. It is also a way of coping, remembering, and processing love that now has nowhere to go.

Updated on Dec 9, 2023 16:42 IST

What does healing look like, in unruly and unpredictable grief?

Grief doesn’t unfold in a linear fashion. It is disorderly, recursive, uncertain. When one no longer reacts to triggers with an intense fight-or-flight response, one can consider healing to have begun. (Pixabay)

Updated on Dec 9, 2023 16:31 IST

The mourning after: Our understanding of grief is changing

(HT Illustration: Rahul Krishnan)

Updated on Dec 8, 2023 13:37 IST

Are they, aren’t they?: What it takes to declare a species extinct

The ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic black-and-white bird with a bright red crown nicknamed the “Lord God” Bird, after the reaction its sighting evokes, was almost taken off a list of protected animals and birds this year, because the US Fish and Wildlife Service intended to declare it extinct. The department is now reconsidering its decision. (National Gallery of Art)

Updated on Nov 25, 2023 13:34 IST

Disappearing acts: Dark extinctions are claiming species before we find them

(Photo courtesy: Senckenberg; HT Illustrations: Mohit Suneja; Imaging by Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Dec 11, 2023 10:25 IST

Thread lightly: An arched look at what has shaped the eyebrow across centuries

(Clockwise from bottom left) Bella Hadid’s straight brow; an Egyptian wall painting depicts thick, bold brows; bushy brows on ’80s icon Brooke Shields; the barely-there eyebrows of the Renaissance, in Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa; Greta Garbo of the silent era; a Roman mural of a couple from Pompeii sporting the unibrow. (Wikimedia Commons; Getty Images)

Updated on Oct 13, 2023 17:16 IST

Eeny, meeny, miny, woe: Why even retail apps are built to keep you scrolling

(Midjourney)

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 14:46 IST

Four, three, two, one... Where does the countdown come from?

(Clockwise from top) A climate clock in London in June; the annual ball drop at Times Square, New York, on January 1, 2022; an atom-bomb test in Nevada, in 1957; space shuttle Columbia takes off in 1981. (Getty Images, Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 15:00 IST

Ideal worship: After #GirlBoss, it’s now #GirlFailure

Perfect mothers, spouses, cooks? A still from The Stepford Wives (2004). The problem lies with assigning labels to women, says behavioural analyst Aditi Surana. “Society needs to just normalise our journeys as humans instead.”

Updated on Sep 15, 2023 11:54 IST

Flying without wings: A snowboarding film tells a tale of freedom in Kashmir

A still from It Is This, directed by Alee, a 22-year-old from Baramulla, and co-produced by Iranian-American filmmaker Shidan Majidi.

Updated on Aug 21, 2023 07:22 IST

Myth, fact and a bottle of rum: What was the life of the pirate really like?

Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Caribbean films is a cheeky, treasure-seeking scamp. The Somali pirates in Captain Phillips are closer to the real thing: scrawny, grimy and impoverished.

Updated on Aug 11, 2023 14:48 IST

Pal’s labyrinth: What kind of friend are you?

The alien Garrus Vakarian (extreme left), a vigilante and military adviser, is a steadfast friend to Commander Shepard (centre) in the videogame Mass Effect.

Updated on Aug 6, 2023 06:28 IST

Struggling to fit in? Strong support from weak ties can help

The vaguely familiar faces you interact with often could have a direct impact on your well-being. It could be someone at the gym, a bus driver on the daily commute, a friendly security guard. (Pixabay)

Updated on Aug 4, 2023 15:02 IST

Friendship: How did the original until-death-do-us-part bond get so downgraded?

(HT illustration: Malay Karmakar)

Updated on Aug 4, 2023 13:14 IST

Hear and now: How the companion podcast is helping with world-building

There are official podcasts for series such as Succession and The Last of Us. The Video Archives show lets filmmaker Quentin Tarantino elaborate on his built worlds. The format is gaining ground in the news space. HT Smartcast has, among several others, a podcast called First Voice, Last Word, hosted by Hindustan Times political editor Sunetra Choudhury.

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 14:38 IST

Counter strike: Indian gaming studios are going in for the kill

Games such as Mayanagari (set in a fictional city that is a cross between Mumbai and Goa) and Mumbai Gullies (complete with local trains and taxis) are hoping to appeal to players of games such as Grand Theft Auto.

Updated on Jul 15, 2023 08:20 IST

Pause and reflect: Are you doing voice notes right?

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jul 27, 2023 11:29 IST

Through the mists: The ancient history of perfume

A gouache painting of Indian perfume sellers from 1840. By about 500 CE, perfume making in India had entered the historical record. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Jul 27, 2023 11:20 IST

Spray painting: What the ancient past smelled like, and why that matters

An Egyptian painting from 1400 BCE depicts women holding flowers, an indication that they wore perfume. A new research project is recreating a perfume for this era, one likely worn by Cleopatra. Surprisingly, stronger fragrances such as cinnamon were considered ideal for women, in this period. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jul 27, 2023 11:15 IST

The edge of tomorrow : How far into the future can we see?

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Updated on Jul 27, 2023 16:57 IST

A savage Winnie the Pooh; a killer Bambi: The rise of anti-nostalgia in cinema

Stills from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Rhys Frake-Waterfield's Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. Also coming soon, Tinker Bell as a recovering addict battling obesity, and a Barney the dinosaur in two minds about his love-all philosophy.

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 11:03 IST

Terms of use: Peeling back the layers of the dark web

(Clockwise from top left) The dark web home pages of the CIA and the investigative-journalism platform ProPublica; and the Tor home page. The encrypted Tor network remains the most widely used gateway to the dark web.

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 07:28 IST

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