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Madhusree Ghosh

Madhusree Ghosh

Madhusree is a feature writer who loves Kolkata, is learning to love Mumbai. She loves to travel, write and bake

Articles by Madhusree Ghosh

In photos: More snapshots from government offices around the world

In Shibam district, Yemen, Mohammed Hamid Azein works with the water department. (Jan Banning)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 10:46 IST

Paper trail: Take a tour, in photos, of government offices across 5 continents

At the Old Secretariat in Patna. (Jan Banning)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 10:44 IST

Guru Dutt at 100: See how other filmmakers have paid tribute through the years

A still from Rahenge Sadaa Gardish Mein Taare; Saif Hasan (2017), a teleplay built around the story of Dutt, his wife singer Geeta Dutt (nee Roy) and the rumours of a great love between him and his muse, Waheeda Rehman.

Updated on Jul 4, 2025 10:20 IST

India, Angola, Peru and the Moon: See who’s on an endangered heritage sites list

The Sea of Tranquillity, with its unusually flat surface, has served as a landing pad for numerous Moon missions, including the first manned one, featuring Buzz Aldrin. A flag, a boot print and assorted trash and memorabilia now lie strewn across the area. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 3, 2025 12:17 IST

Spin cycle: Why Earth’s rotational speed is changing

At capacity, China’s Three Gorges Dam holds back 10 trillion gallons of water. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:34 IST

Bad, worse, better? How shifting baseline syndrome dims our outrage

An Antarctic ice shelf scored with cracks, as seen in 2016. (NASA)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 09:59 IST

‘Lung’ tests for the Amazon: A new study will measure carbon intake per plant

The Amazon rainforest was one of the world’s largest carbon absorbers. It still releases 20 billion tonnes of water into the atmosphere a day, playing a crucial role in weather, carbon and water cycles. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Dec 7, 2024 10:13 IST

Storey time: An Instagram project chronicles Delhi houses as they change

In the histories and chronicles of the ancient city, modern-era homes rarely find a mention. ‘It worries me that this part of our history is not considered old enough to be preserved,’ says Mann. (Courtesy @DelhiHouses)

Updated on Oct 19, 2024 08:58 IST

Now I Get It: Decoding museum fatigue

At the Vatican Museums in Vatican City. Too many similar exhibits, particularly when arranged along identical passages and in same-looking rooms, are said to be a key cause of museum fatigue. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 14, 2024 07:15 IST

Flying colours: How national flags took shape

Former African colonies, at independence, have typically drawn from the three colours used in Ethiopia’s flag since the 1800s. Why Ethiopia? Because, apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini’s Italy, it has never been colonised. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Aug 17, 2024 11:28 IST

I knew I was going to have to work a thousand times harder: Kal Penn

(Maarten de Boer)

Updated on Dec 17, 2021 17:25 IST

Jaa Simran, jaa: 5 lines to drop as DDLJ heads to Broadway

(Imaging: Monica Gupta)

Updated on Dec 10, 2021 17:20 IST

It helps that I can play a south Indian, Punjabi, Bihari: R Madhavan

‘I never repeat a genre or a type of film that worked for me earlier,’ Madhavan says.

Updated on Dec 4, 2021 09:13 IST

Unusual flight path: Conversations with a great Indian twitcher

The Eurasian blackcap is a common warbler in Europe, sometimes seen in Kenya, but never in India before. ‘The furthest east it had been seen was Iran,’ Jain says. (Kuttettan Munnar)

Updated on Nov 27, 2021 09:40 IST

Love, actually: How female novelists are rewriting romance in India

‘Every book of mine comes with the message that one can live with self-respect; that women have a right to claim their place in the world,’ says romance novelist Sundari Venkatraman. (HT Illustration: Jayachandran)

Updated on Nov 20, 2021 07:38 IST

Romance writing in 2021: What works, and what just doesn’t

(Pixabay)

Updated on Nov 19, 2021 13:27 IST

Discover Indian superfoods with a unique forgotten foods calendar

Meenakshi Boopathi’s Forgotten Foods calendar features 35 ingredients in five categories: edible flowers; fruits and seeds; remedial leaves; stems; roots and tubers.

Updated on Nov 13, 2021 13:28 IST

Baby hair is brushing back into style. Is it the trend for you?

Priyanka Chopra’s natural-look baby hair at the 2017 Met Gala; American actress Tessa Thomson; singer Selena Gomez.

Updated on Nov 13, 2021 14:34 IST

Sweet, sour, savoury and... sad? Making sense of the depression meal

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 6, 2021 10:06 IST

Attack of the clichés: How to survive in a horror film

It never ends well for token minorities and sex symbols in Hollywood horror. (Scream)

Updated on Oct 30, 2021 13:52 IST

From graveyard ghosts to elevated horror: A Hollywood evolution

Some of the earliest horror films in Hollywood play on the fear of the non-conformist. Dracula was a foreigner with a very unusual way of life. Frankenstein (1931; top left) was hubris and genius run amok. By the ’60s and ’70s, filmmakers were as likely to see their increasingly fractured society as a source of monstrosity, as in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974; left). What’s being called elevated horror today (Squid Game, 2021 and US, 2019) brings the audience face to face with the most extreme reaches of racism, capitalism, patriarchy, stripped of metaphor and often the sense of a resolution.

Updated on Oct 30, 2021 13:58 IST

I like food fads. They can represent the peak of creativity: Chef Gary Mehigan

Updated on Oct 23, 2021 07:39 IST

Keeping it real: Shyam Benegal on retirement, change, his first film in 11 years

Benegal at his office in Tardeo, Mumbai. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Oct 15, 2021 14:52 IST

On a wing and a prayer: How women priests are setting new norms

Nandini and Ruma of Shubhamastu officiate at a wedding in Kolkata.

Updated on Oct 9, 2021 10:15 IST

I like to play women who have a voice, or find their voice: Shweta Tripathi

‘One thing I wasn’t prepared for was how hard it would be to get out of character, especially a dark character like Golu,’ Tripathi says.

Updated on Oct 2, 2021 10:52 IST

A film should make all its viewers a little less lonely: Alankrita Shrivastava

‘It’s a deeper question of what purpose culture and stories serve in our society. Our culture needs to reflect the voices of the other, and not just the narrative of the dominant,’ Shrivastava says. (HT Archives)

Updated on Oct 2, 2021 10:52 IST

Where have all Bollywood’s bad girls gone?

Anti-heroines in mainstream Hindi cinema through the decades: The Bollywood bad girl is still on your screens. But now she’s often the lead. And she’s not all bad or all good; she’s sometimes scheming, sometimes struggling or revelling in her misdeeds, often just muddling through, wondering how she got to where she is.

Updated on Oct 2, 2021 10:50 IST

Women were seen as vamps when they started asking for their rights: Guneet Monga

Updated on Oct 1, 2021 14:31 IST

A smiling Kashmiri effort: Preaching unity in words and deeds

Handu uses Facebook and Instagram (@asvunkoshur) to unite Kashmiri children from different communities. ‘I have a lot of faith in kids. I believe if you want to teach something positive to people, catch them young,’ she says.

Updated on Sep 18, 2021 09:01 IST

In defense of boredom

(HT Illustration: Jayachandran)

Updated on Sep 11, 2021 09:03 IST

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