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    Sukanya Datta

    Sukanya Datta is principal correspondent at HT Wknd, the Sunday features section of Hindustan Times. She writes on science, climate, art, culture, communities and anthropology. Outside the newsroom, she likes to swim, try out Instagram recipes and daydream about her next trip.

    Articles by Sukanya Datta

    Tap out: Are we at the stage where we need to curate our own friction?

    A still from the music video for the song Are You Lost in the World Like Me? (2016) by Moby & the Void Pacific Choir. In it, screen addicts post selfies, send emojis or hunt for Pikachu, oblivious to the world around them.
    art culture
    Updated on Sep 5, 2026 12:44 IST

    Wknd explains: The rise of ‘competency porn’

    The Pitt (2025-), set in an underfunded, overcrowded ER, is a prime example of a fictional world in which excellence consistently wins over chaos.
    art culture
    Updated on Aug 29, 2026 07:23 IST

    Wood you look at that?: Inside India’s lichen and gymnosperm gardens

    Most people take both types of plants for granted; lichen is even somewhat disliked, for appearing where it wasn’t ‘invited’. The aim of the parks is to highlight the crucial role both play in ecosystems. (Yogesh Chandra Tripathi)
    art culture
    Updated on Aug 22, 2026 08:14 IST

    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    Updated on Aug 1, 2026 11:16 IST

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

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    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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.
    art culture
    Updated on Jun 20, 2026 14:07 IST

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

    (HT Imaging via ChatGPT)
    art culture
    Updated on Jun 13, 2026 09:27 IST

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

    (Adobe Stock; Shutterstock)
    art culture
    Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:03 IST

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

    (Photo: Laurence Philomene)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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.
    art culture
    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.
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    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)
    art culture
    Updated on Dec 12, 2025 15:25 IST
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