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Sukanya Datta

Sukanya Datta

Articles by Sukanya Datta

On the same wavelength: Why do we like the same birdsongs that birds like?

Overwhelmingly, humans and animals have turned out to prefer the same sounds — even within the chirps, trills and warbles of creatures such as the zebra finch. (Image: Raina Fan)

Updated on Aug 15, 2026 11:42 IST

Turning pointe: See how a ballet set in India has been reimagined

The revised La Bayadere features characters that feel authentic, mixed-race dancers, and backdrops that contain footage of real locations in Tamil Nadu. (Image courtesy Altin Kaftira)

Updated on Aug 8, 2026 09:14 IST

This is us: Meet the man making documentaries about everyday Indian families

The Sharmas on a recent family trip to Varanasi. (Courtesy Famdocs Collective)

Updated on Aug 1, 2026 11:16 IST

Stranger things: New Indian sci-fi blends caste, class, tech anxieties

Updated on Jul 17, 2026 12:17 IST

Robot siblings, octopi societies, dark utopias: The latest from worlds of sci-fi

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via ChatGPT)

Updated on Jul 17, 2026 12:16 IST

Haute pursuit: A look at the making of a fashion show

Hussein Chalayan’s iconic 2000 Fall/Winter show in London. Models unzipped furniture upholstery and wore the pieces as dresses, reflecting the refugee experience of rebuilding a life with whatever one can find or carry. (Catwalk: The Art of The Fashion Show / V&A Dundee)

Updated on Jun 27, 2026 10:35 IST

Lingering looks: A 125-year timeline of Dior, dolls and drama on the runway

Model Shalom Harlow poses at the Alexander McQueen 1999 Spring/Summer show as robots spray paint onto her dress. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 27, 2026 10:29 IST

Pose and cons : A look at the 125-year arc of the fashion show

A 2017 Chanel show staged beneath a replica of a rocket. (Catwalk: The Art of The Fashion Show / V&A Dundee)

Updated on Jun 27, 2026 10:30 IST

What’s another word for...: Inside the Ashoka database of Indian translations

A still from Interstellar (2014). Translation too is a kind of time travel, each work a gift pieced together and transmitted to generations of the present and future.

Updated on Jun 20, 2026 14:07 IST

Spark notes: Inside the fascinating world of computers powered by brain cells

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT)

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 09:27 IST

Private but no equity: A new book traces the history of privacy

(Adobe Stock; Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:03 IST

A cannon event: A Wknd chat with Stella Prize winner Lee Lai

(Photo: Laurence Philomene)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 13:03 IST

Going once, going twice... going viral: Meet the new-age auctioneer

Liang-Lin Chen of Christie’s in Hong Kong is known for her calm but warm manner, ready smile, easy wit - and for her trademark qipaos, often in purple, turquoise or midnight blue, with a hint of shimmer. (Christie’s)

Updated on May 30, 2026 10:39 IST

What do they know that we don’t?: How indigenous people fight invasive species

In Ethiopia, there are poems about the dangers of the fast-spreading invasive Prosopis juliflora, brought to the country in the 1970s as part of a fodder and anti-land-erosion effort. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 16:54 IST

Resident aliens: Check out the damage done by invasive plants, fish, insects

Spot the red fox, tropical fire ants, lantana, tree of heaven, pleco fish, branched pipe coral and water hyacinth. (images: Shutterstock; HT Illustration via ChatGPT)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 16:49 IST

Terribly tiny truths: A new book traces the arc of the aphorism

An embroidered cotton kanga by South African artist Lawrence Lemaoana. (Image courtesy Lawrence Lemaoana)

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 07:54 IST

Wish you were here: Inside Unesco’s virtual museum of stolen cultural objects

The virtual museum unfolds along a spiral path, fanning out like a baobab tree. (Images: Studio Francis Kéré; museum.unesco.org)

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 08:39 IST

The good news is, the reins are in our hands: water researcher Kaveh Madani

‘I believe we can do things differently. No one anywhere is immune to this. So, it’s a matter of accepting reality, admitting mismanagement and going back to the drawing board,’ Madani says.

Updated on Mar 27, 2026 14:35 IST

Scar struck: First-responders talk about the anxiety, exhaustion, guilt

The 1995 Flateyri avalanche in Iceland. ‘It was one of my first assignments. I located the final victim,’ says Petur Gudmundsson, now a firefighter in Sweden.

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 11:47 IST

This is not a drill: Climate, grief and the changing world of first-responders

(Photos: Shutterstock; HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 12:05 IST

Sweeter than history: A new book traces the journeys of Bengal’s mishti

These concoction have such an elevated status in West Bengal that some, such as the tatwa mishti or wedding sweets, form part of the wedding trousseau. (Above) A platter of mishti made to resemble a woollen shawl. (Courtesy Jalbhara Surjya Kumar Modak)

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 12:38 IST

Deja brew: How matcha made the leap onto menus, and then everywhere

We’ve had activated-charcoal burger buns, blueberry shampoo, boba in every flavour, and matcha in cosmetics. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 1, 2026 10:27 IST

Fright club: Check out an archive that untangles India’s vibrant ghost stories

In Jharkhand, there are tales told of a dowry ghost, a woman who died by suicide after running away from her wedding and her demanding groom-to-be. She now haunts wedding processions, seeking out grooms who behave as hers did. (HT illustration: Malay Karmakar)

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 10:59 IST

How the order half lives: Can micro-efficiencies improve your life?

(Imaging: HT; Images via Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 15:23 IST

Smog and mirrors: A Wknd interview with an aerosol scientist and advisor to WHO

(Image courtesy Queensland University of Technology)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 11:39 IST

Sleigh what? Weird and wonderful Christmas traditions from around the world

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via Midjourney)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 16:43 IST

State of play: A new book dives into the story of modern Karnataka

A yakshagana performance. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 12, 2025 15:25 IST

What would it take for you to be happy?: Excerpts from Questions Without Answers

Compiled over four years, the book was crowdsourced via X, Reddit and parenting and childcare communities online. (Art from Questions Without Answers: Liana Finck; Text courtesy Sarah Manguso)

Updated on Nov 21, 2025 11:27 IST

Aww struck:A new book puts together some of the best questions asked by children

(Art from Questions Without Answers: Liana Finck; Text courtesy Sarah Manguso)

Updated on Nov 21, 2025 11:25 IST

Pasta, candy bars, soy: How war has shaped some of our favourite foods

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 14, 2025 14:47 IST

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