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Rachel Lopez

Rachel Lopez

Rachel Lopez is a a writer and editor with the Hindustan Times. She has worked with the Times Group, Time Out and Vogue and has a special interest in city history, culture, etymology and internet and society.

Articles by Rachel Lopez

Something to riff through: A reading guide to Miles Davis, by Rachel Lopez

Art from Miles and the Search for the Sound (2023).

Updated on May 22, 2026 13:54 IST

Rue breakers: Rachel Lopez traces new twists in songs about regret

Among our key regrets from this week in pop culture: That we don’t all have a version of Emma Chamberlain’s dream-like van Gogh-inspired outfit. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 8, 2026 13:31 IST

Make way for Clog-Zilla: Rachel Lopez writes on fatbergs

In American illustrator Nathan T Wright’s children’s book, The Adventures of Fatberg (2015), the stinky sewer blockages are imagined as friendly, misunderstood creatures.

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 09:28 IST

Review: In The beginning There Was Bombay Duck by Pronoti Datta

A neighbourhood in central Mumbai. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 22:30 IST

Sight, sound, smell, space: How humans have tracked time across millennia

Big Ben, completed in 1859, predates Greenwich Mean Time (agreed upon in 1884). (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:33 IST

Look ma, no hands: Rachel Lopez pays a visit to India’s atomic clocks

The atomic clocks are expensive, and need constant monitoring. But they are India’s pride, says Poonam Arora, head of the IST Metrology Division. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:29 IST

Tick talk: Rachel Lopez takes a trip through time, as IST turns 120

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:24 IST

Rachel Lopez picks her favourite reads of 2025

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 11:55 IST

Cambridge Dictionary names ‘Parasocial’ word of 2025

Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year.

Updated on Nov 19, 2025 24:03 IST

Travel special: Almaty in Kazakhstan is one of the world’s last secrets

Almaty’s subway stations are works of art in themselves. (Rachel Lopez)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 12:22 IST

Hit list: Is it time to retire Top 10 lists and random rankings?

Most lists — such as ‘Zendaya’s Best Looks’ — are largely troll bait. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 12:16 IST

Ulterior motifs: 100 years of Art Deco - in jewellery, art, fashion

Artist AM Cassandre’s masterpiece of a poster for the passenger ship SS Normandie, created in 1935, gives on the sense of looking up, even when one is simply looking across.

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 11:19 IST

Review: The Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix

Migrants’ belongings on the beach of Wimereux, on November 25, 2021, in Calais, France. At least 31 people died trying to cross the Channel to the UK in an inflatable dinghy. The Small Boat is based on this incident. (Kiran Ridley/Getty Images)

Updated on May 17, 2025 24:00 IST

A complete unknown: Rachel Lopez on how we met new needs in the pandemic

The arts helped keep humanity from falling apart. (Above) A still from the Broadway play Hamilton, which was released on streaming platforms in 2020.

Updated on Mar 8, 2025 07:27 IST

Swan song: Why we need to bring back the big movie soundtrack

Remember when Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Lil’ Kim and P!nk sang Lady Marmalade for Moulin Rouge?

Updated on Mar 7, 2025 11:25 IST

Click bait: When to go beauty shopping online and when to hit the stores

When it comes to makeup, buy it in person. Lighting, good staff and testers make all the difference. (ADOBE STOCK)

Updated on Feb 7, 2025 11:48 IST

Listicle: 10 Instagram accounts that feel like a warm hug

Uyen Ninh and her German boyfriend – now fiance – are everybody’s favourite Internet couple. (INSTAGRAM/@UYENNINH)

Updated on Jan 3, 2025 10:10 IST

Chase the cormorants to find new havens: What Rachel Lopez learnt in 2024

Make an afternoon of scouting for Soviet-era art at Moscow’s metro stations. (Image: Rachel Lopez)

Updated on Dec 28, 2024 10:08 IST

A class apart: Rachel Lopez lists her favourite high-IQ podcasts of 2024

The 12 episodes of HT Smartcast’s 1947: Road to Indian Independence rush past like a story half-remembered, but they’re also packed with beautiful detail and fresh research.

Updated on Dec 28, 2024 09:39 IST

Rachel Lopez picks her favourite read of 2024

Of Black Americans telling their children about everything from microagressions to how to survive police encounters (Henry Holt and Co.)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 10:09 IST

Listicle: 10 stage-to-screen adaptations that we can’t stop watching

Wicked is a tale of friendship and revenge, a commentary on identity and power.

Updated on Dec 13, 2024 09:44 IST

Iconic fashion designer Rohit Bal dies weeks after final show

Fashion designer Rohit Bal presented his last collection “Kaaynaat: A Bloom in the Universe” as a part of the FDCI x Lakme Fashion Week, in New Delhi on October 14. (ANI)

Updated on Nov 2, 2024 03:21 IST

6 cities. 60 menus. Secret sauces. Taboo treats: Here’s what India eats now

We examined more than 60 menus from Delhi, Mumbai, Goa, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata to see what the county is eating. (Malay Karmakar)

Updated on Mar 22, 2024 10:36 IST

Women, babies, growth: ‘Not a switch that can be turned on and off’

We need to plan migration policies and invest in rural communities once India approaches or hits peak population, Muttreja says.

Updated on Mar 4, 2024 07:34 IST

The countdown begins: What the coming dip in global population means for us all

(HT illustrations: Mohit Suneja)

Updated on Mar 1, 2024 17:45 IST

Listicle: 10 fits to rock on the red carpet at the Oscars

Angelina Jolie's 2012 dress was full length but one slit showed off her entire leg.

Updated on Feb 2, 2024 11:11 IST

We’re not making it up: Fiction will really change your life. Here’s why

The Underground Railroad, offers a better understanding of American slavery than most history books.

Updated on Jan 12, 2024 09:45 IST

Rachel Lopez picks her favourite reads of 2023

Rock & roll and lapis lazuli (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 12:10 IST

New robes for Red Square: India shines at Brics+ Fashion Summit in Moscow

Designers, retailers, franchise dealers and creative professionals at the Summit’s B2B showroom. (BRICS+ Fashion Summit)

Updated on Dec 23, 2023 16:15 IST

Listicle: Meet 10 women named India who shine in their diverse fields

India Amarteifio plays young Queen Charlotte in Netflix's Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.

Updated on Aug 11, 2023 14:46 IST

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