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    Rachel Lopez

    Rachel Lopez is Editor, HT Brunch. She also sets the popular TWTW quiz on Sundays, and writes long-form features on subjects ranging from prehistoric art to atomic clocks. Her interests include the arts, urbanism, history and the absurd.

    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).
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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.
    art culture
    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)
    books
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:24 IST

    Rachel Lopez picks her favourite reads of 2025

    Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (Penguin)
    books
    Updated on Dec 26, 2025 11:55 IST

    Cambridge Dictionary names ‘Parasocial’ word of 2025

    Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year.
    india news
    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)
    brunch
    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)
    brunch
    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.
    art culture
    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)
    books
    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.
    art culture
    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?
    brunch
    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)
    brunch
    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)
    brunch
    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)
    art culture
    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.
    art culture
    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.)
    books
    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.
    brunch
    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)
    india news
    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)
    brunch
    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.
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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.
    brunch
    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.
    brunch
    Updated on Jan 12, 2024 09:45 IST

    Rachel Lopez picks her favourite reads of 2023

    Rock & roll and lapis lazuli (Penguin)
    books
    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)
    art culture
    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.
    brunch
    Updated on Aug 11, 2023 14:46 IST
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