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Zara Murao

Zara Murao

Zara heads the weekend features and special projects teams in Mumbai. She has been a journalist for 15 years, but a grammar Nazi for much longer.

Articles by Zara Murao

Zara Murao picks her favourite read of 2025

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Penguin Random House)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 11:54 IST

Travel special: How to make big plans in little Diu

Diu Fort, with its many gates, still seems like discovering a secret in 2025. (CAROL LOBO)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 12:21 IST

Zara Murao picks her favourite reads of 2024

Vital disturbances in a carefully calibrated view of the world (One World; Metropolitan Books)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 11:01 IST

Zara Murao picks her favourite reads of 2023

A sweeping look at a species that has always been on the move (Hachette)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 12:11 IST

Baffling: Crickets craft tiny megaphones to up their chances of finding a mate

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Sep 16, 2023 14:52 IST

Cute aggression: Why you want to bite the baby

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 24, 2023 09:35 IST

Van Gogh 360: Should you Gogh?

Giant screens turn a makeshift shelter at the World Trade Center, Mumbai, into a room full of van Goghs. Here, visitors against a backdrop of The Starry Night (Zara Murao)

Updated on Jul 20, 2023 09:09 IST

Zara Murao picks her favourite read of 2022

Slaying the siren of infinite growth (HT Team)

Updated on Dec 30, 2022 11:07 IST

‘It’s a proud Hindi moment’, says Indian author on International Booker shortlist

HT Image

Updated on Apr 7, 2022 18:41 IST

Zara Murao, Editor, Wknd, picks her favourite read of 2021

Mae Martin’s book addresses the concerns of people new to the idea of sexuality as a spectrum. (HT Team)

Updated on Dec 24, 2021 22:20 IST

Lovlina Borgohain: The early years

’Everyone needs motivation. Needs someone to tell them they’re so good, they could win with a broken arm. That is how winners are made,’ says Borgohain. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 20, 2021 12:16 IST

I used to live in a bit of fear:Talking boxing, life,loss with Lovlina Borgohain

(Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 20, 2021 12:15 IST

Eye for an I: Existential riddles with author Meghan O’Gieblyn

Updated on Jul 31, 2021 07:48 IST

The slippery slope of pandemic fatigue, and how to stay off it

A still from Animal Crossing. Parties, get-togethers and brunches are moving offline again, while the threat from the pandemic remains the same.

Updated on Nov 8, 2020 16:52 IST

Do you have apocalypse anxiety?

Updated on Sep 6, 2020 05:02 IST

100 days of Covid-19: Learning to parent through a pandemic

As everyone pitches in to take on new chores, children have benefited from seeing gender roles ease in the household

Updated on Jun 21, 2020 16:05 IST

Newsmaker: A new and improved Sacha Baron Cohen takes on the ‘Silicon Six’

Speaking at the American NGO Anti-Defamation League’s Never is Now Summit, Cohen — who was being awarded their International Leadership Award — argued that because platforms like Facebook refuse to distinguish between opinion and micro-targeted lies, “democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, and autocracy, which thrives on shared lies, is on the march”.

Updated on Dec 6, 2019 15:40 IST

Newsmaker: As India fetes David Attenborough, a look at an incredible career

A still from Life in Colour, coming to Netflix in 2021. Attenborough has been knighted, honoured and awarded around the world for doing more than perhaps any other individual, as one panel put it, to reveal the wonders of the natural world to us. But many naturalists say the pristine habitats depicted in his films have, for decades, failed to reflect reality.

Updated on Nov 29, 2019 13:10 IST

#Newsmaker: As BoJack airs its last season, a look at all we’ll miss

Cut loose: They say Netflix has found that the optimal number of seasons for a show is two. After that, it just doesn’t bring in new subscribers. BoJack Horseman lasted six seasons; part two of its finale will air in January. Meanwhile, there’s another theory that it is ending, amid its successful run, because its crew unionised.

Updated on Nov 8, 2019 12:08 IST

Hot Tip: Why you should be reading Lie With Me

Updated on Nov 1, 2019 10:30 IST

Newsmaker: Robert Pattinson has been quietly remaking himself since Twilight

A still from The Lighthouse, due for release soon, where Pattinson - totally unrecognisable in a funny moustache - retreats from the world and into slowly unravelling madness.

Updated on Nov 1, 2019 10:16 IST

Who is Billie Eilish and why is everyone talking about her?

Eilish’s lyrics are said to resonate with a post-9/11 generation that has grown up amid uncertainty and insecurity.

Updated on Sep 7, 2019 08:04 IST

#Newsmaker: Greta Thunberg has sailed across the Atlantic. What now?

Extreme measures make sense to Thunberg because extreme is our reality now. And so she’s voyaged across the Atlantic in a yacht with no toilet and no kitchen. But is there much point in such a statement, if the example one is setting cannot be followed?

Updated on Aug 30, 2019 12:14 IST

The changing romcom: Romantic hero types through the years

Jake Gyllenhal and Heath Ledger caused more hearts to flutter than anyone would have thought, in Brokeback Mountain.

Updated on Aug 23, 2019 08:50 IST

#Newsmaker: Taylor Swift has a new song out, a new album and a new persona

At a June 2 concert in LA.

Updated on Jun 22, 2019 11:47 IST

‘Transport apps holding customers to ransom’

Updated on May 31, 2016 19:32 IST

Women cannot do it all. And they shouldn’t

Updated on Jul 8, 2014 17:44 IST

How to pick travel buddy

HT Image

Updated on Mar 23, 2013 11:55 IST

An all-new Brand Bandra

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Updated on Dec 1, 2012 18:55 IST

The worst form of bullying

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Updated on Sep 29, 2011 18:08 IST

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