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Published on Sept 30, 2023 11:47 am IST

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Some foods simply can't be eaten with a fork and a knife, no matter where one's consuming them.

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Updated on Jun 12, 2023 12:51 pm IST

Gita Gopinath: Recovery agent

Economist Gita Gopinath

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Published on Dec 19, 2021 11:31 am IST

Photos: Life in some of Earth’s most extreme environments

Dhritiman Mukherjee, 46, a photographer from Kolkata, dives beneath the ice, in the ocean around Antarctica. Divers descend through a hole, with a tether around their waists. The tether is their only link to the surface. “If I lose the rope, there would be really very little chance of me finding my way back to the hole, under that vast expanse of ice,” Mukherjee says.

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Published on Jul 29, 2021 06:38 pm IST

Photos: What it takes to capture the cosmos

Astro-photography is a niche in which photographers try to capture intricate details and close-ups of stars, planets and even deep-space objects like nebulas. Soumyadeep Mukherjee’s celestial muse is the sun. Here, exhaust fumes from the plane’s engine create the illusion of licking flames, in an image captured in the afternoon.

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Updated on Jul 24, 2021 04:53 pm IST

Photos: Six Indian sites vying for a spot on the UNESCO World Heritage list

Maharashtra’s many, massive, centuries-old forts are built from stone and are seemingly impervious to time. Many stand just as they did when they were built, despite centuries of neglect. They’re scattered across the region — atop mountains in the foothills of the Sahyadris, on an island in the Arabian Sea. Fourteen forts are part of the Unesco nomination, all associated with the warrior-king Shivaji (1630 - 1680). They include the forts at Raigad and Rajgad, both of which served as Maratha capitals; Shivaji’s birthplace at Shivneri; the hilltop Torna Fort in Pune district, famously captured by Shivaji at 16; and one of the world’s finest examples of sea-fort architecture, the Kolaba fort at Alibaug.

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Updated on Jul 25, 2021 04:20 pm IST

Photos: Out in the field with the frog prince of India

Amphibian biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju with a golden-backed frog in the Western Ghats. In addition to discovering 105 species so far, Biju has conducted research that proved groundbreaking. He was instrumental in differentiating between the golden-backed frogs in India and those in Sri Lanka, for instance. After a decade-long survey in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, analysing DNA and morphology, Biju concluded that were no golden-backs that were common to both countries. Sri Lanka has one species and the Western Ghats has six, each existing in their own narrow geographies.

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Updated on Jul 16, 2021 12:29 pm IST

#AnimalSounds:Check out how Rohit Chakravarty is making bat calls audible

Rohit Chakravarty with a Joffre’s Pipistrelle bat. ‘As a researcher, I just want to de-stigmatise this animal that people have such an aversion to and have so many misconceptions about,’ the 29-year-old chiropterologist says.

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Updated on Oct 11, 2020 10:20 am IST

Capital in lockdown: Stories from around Delhi-NCR amid coronavirus pandemic

Stories from around Delhi picked by Delhiwala Mayank Austen Soofi

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:11 pm IST

Mumbai in the time of coronavirus pandemic

A masked couple sits by the Arabia Sea in Mumbai.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:42 pm IST

Sudhir Patwardhan’s exclusive artwork Departure depicts the frailty of Mumbai as home

Departure, pastel on paper, 2020

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:16 pm IST

A universe of meaning

Standing 7 feet tall, this new work is carved out of re-used wood that has been collected from various dismantled structures in and around Mumbai.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 01:03 pm IST

Art in an apocalypse

The artist collects different kinds of scissors because he thinks “they’re very interesting as a functional object and a piece of design.”

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 10:37 am IST

Hum-safar: Fellow Traveller a poem by Javed Akhtar. Watch video

Migrant workers walking towards Farrukhabad and Sultanpur pause during a sudden dust storm, along NH24 near Indirapuram in New Delhi on May 10, 2020.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 10:10 am IST

A walk in the park

English and Marathi writer Shanta Gokhale shares a story about a family during the coronavirus lockdown, and how a wife will stop at nothing to protect herself and her husband.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 10:36 am IST

Housekeeper of Hauz Khas

Kamni has been working as a housekeeper in Haus Khas for almost 20 years.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:46 pm IST

Our need for human connection stays

Photograph clicked by Sooni Taraporevala

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 10:35 am IST

Yellow Pages on Delhi’s walls: With the city shuttered amid Covid-19, vendors leave their phone numbers behind

The number of a vendor written on a blank number plate.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:47 pm IST

Her elegy to the ordinary: An IT professional’s ode to city life in coronavirus pandemic times

Jonaki Ray

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:45 pm IST

Vowels of the street in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo

Shops in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:13 pm IST

From choir to duet: Ramayan Paath in the times of coronavirus

Kshetra Pal and his wife, Pushpa, hold Ramayan Paath virtually.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 04:12 pm IST

Do you have apocalypse anxiety?

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 10:32 am IST

The science of forming good habits... and making them stick

Get your mind to believe that a habit is mundane and necessary and it will become part of your day more easily.

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Updated on Sept 06, 2020 10:34 am IST

A guerrilla gardener working in secret creates a forest in Kolkata

The forest is in Alipore.Over the past decade, mango, sheesham, plum, guava, tamarind and Asoka trees have come up on the 1-km-long strip.

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Updated on Sept 05, 2020 12:18 pm IST

A playlist to shake off the Covid blues

Hindustan Times editor Sukumar Ranganathan presents five songs, all released in the past few months as the world grappled with a virus and a lockdown

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Updated on Sept 04, 2020 08:12 pm IST

Harpreet Singh is carving the Punjabi music and film industry with creative content

The way the music industry has seen a rise with people demanding unique and soul-touching music, Harpreet decided to launch his own company called “Singhwithbenz”.

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Updated on Aug 10, 2020 06:11 pm IST

Her, in your ear: Female podcasters on food, science, history and more

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Updated on Jun 22, 2020 10:13 am IST

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