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New ear resolution: Sanjoy Narayan on the iconic Sennheiser HD 600 headphones
A digital rip of Led Zeppelin’s Ten Years Gone is like a 3D soundscape. Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue sounds brand-new. This is music as it was meant to be heard.

Updated on May 24, 2025 06:04 PM IST
Doctors by Nature: Read an excerpt from a book about how animals heal themselves
We can play a role too. In this chapter, author Jaap de Roode explores how the modern urban garden shapes animal and insect ‘pharmacies’.

Updated on May 24, 2025 05:58 PM IST
Blocked buster: Deepanjana Pal on the tussle over the release of Bhool Chuk Maaf
The tug-of-war between theatrical dates and streaming release has entered a new phase, with a ₹60-crore lawsuit thrown in.

Updated on May 23, 2025 04:04 PM IST
What came before the UN?: In Egypt, China, ancient bids to administer the world
Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Updated on May 23, 2025 03:59 PM IST
For best results: Why countries group together, despite the UN
The earliest of these groupings – NATO – dates to just four years after the United Nations was formed. What role does the UN play, amid these alliances?

Updated on May 23, 2025 03:55 PM IST
An experiment UNdone: Prashant Jha writes on what ails the United Nations
There are no two ways about it: the UN, now 80 years old, has failed at its core mission of preserving the peace.What role can it play? Why do we still need it?

Updated on May 23, 2025 03:51 PM IST
How does it all go so pear-shaped?: Poonam Saxena writes on bonds with mothers
It can become something of a fractured relationship, the one with a mother. No one explored this with more delicacy than masterful Hindi writer Swadesh Deepak.

Updated on May 17, 2025 01:52 PM IST
The Ruins of Gour: Read an excerpt from a book on Bengal’s lost cities
Henry Creighton, a Scotsman working at an indigo factory, stumbled upon the ruins more than 200 years ago. His 1817 book notes what it was like. An excerpt.

Updated on May 17, 2025 01:45 PM IST
Capital gains: Tour the lost cities of Gaur and Pandua in West Bengal
These were once grand capitals. All that remain are fragments: a mausoleum, minar, parts of a palace. The good news: The influencers don’t yet know they’re here

Updated on May 17, 2025 01:42 PM IST
The end of the Age of Kohli: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on an exceptional leader
The former captain, now retired from Tests, didn’t just lead, rack up the runs, and win. He altered the DNA of the Indian team.

Updated on May 17, 2025 01:38 PM IST
A host of mini-me’s: History of the tiny bio, and what makes it so hard to frame
Chinese traders struggled to describe themselves in a few characters, in 300 CE. Such tags are battlegrounds of politics, power, delusion – even more so today.

Updated on May 10, 2025 03:13 PM IST
Blunt-force drama: Deepanjana Pal writes on the new series Black, White and Gray
The new series on Sony Liv offers both twists and familiar tropes – all the while asking: Has Bollywood made storytellers of us all?

Updated on May 10, 2025 02:44 PM IST
Jane character energy: How are Austen’s novels still the stuff of blockbusters?
How is it that her stories are still being retold, in Hindi, English, Japanese, Tamil? It comes down to her eye for people, says K Narayanan.

Updated on May 09, 2025 01:38 PM IST
It’s not just that the heat could kill you: Author, researcher Jeff Goodell
His latest book is an attempt to make this abstract threat more visible. “It wasn’t easy. It was like writing the biography of a ghost,” he says.

Updated on May 09, 2025 01:36 PM IST
Feel the burn?: The nature of the heat we face is changing
As summers become more deadly, governments are responding with literal alarm bells: awnings to cover entire streets, names and grades for heatwaves. Take a look

Updated on May 09, 2025 01:31 PM IST
The thing is...: Wknd interviews an unusual collector of everyday objects
Part of his horde ended up at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, raising the questions: Do power, status have to define a collection? Who are our museums for?

Updated on May 09, 2025 01:29 PM IST
India, Angola, Peru and the Moon: See who’s on an endangered heritage sites list
Why did Sea of Tranquility make the cut? What marks out ancient fields in Peru, a lake system in Kutch, an Indian city centre with a river running through it?

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:47 PM IST
The vault in our stars: Rudraneil Sengupta on Indian gymnastics
Interviewing a jubilant Brazilian gymnastics star recently was a bittersweet experience. How much hope, and help, she has had.

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:45 PM IST
Best fruit forward: Check out a unique ‘mango museum’ in Gujarat
Guests can walk through an orchard made up of 300 varieties. Expect rare breeds from Japan, Thailand and West Bengal, as well as lessons in climate resilience.

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:44 PM IST
The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide
India is third on the list of countries with the wealthiest billionaires. Meanwhile, less than 38% of households own a refrigerator.

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 AM IST
Just someone I used to know?: Charles Assisi writes on fading intimacy
When friends, or ex-lovers, drift apart, it may leave no bruises. But it’s still hard to reconcile, isn’t it, the quiet loss of a bond that once meant so much?

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:14 PM IST
What are we all watching?: Deepanjana Pal on the missing Hindi comfort show
There was a time when we had Gullak, Panchayat, Bandish Bandits. Why is a vivid vampire flick the best thing I can currently recommend?

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 02:58 PM IST
A thriller Top 10: Check out K Narayanan’s essential Hitchcock watchlist
Psycho, of course. But also The Lady Vanishes, and The 39 Steps. A century since his first film, Narayanan puts together a list of fan and critic favourites.

Updated on Apr 25, 2025 02:35 PM IST
‘Are we ready for this?’: Wknd interviews the astrophysicist who captured signs
At 45, Nikku Madhusudhan has made the discovery of a lifetime. How did he know where to look? What else could these gas signatures be? An exclusive interview.

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:07 PM IST
Read herrings: Poonam Saxena celebrates Hindi crime writer Surendra Mohan Pathak
His books are a mix of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English. These are the many Indias he has known. What keeps the pulp-fiction legend ticking?

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:59 PM IST
More than you can chew: Swetha Sivakumar explores extreme food records
What makes someone grow the biggest pumpkin or bake the largest loaf in the world? Exactly how risky are those eating competitions? Take a look.

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:54 PM IST
Pounds and prejudice: Graphic novel Shrink explores life in a large body
Artist and researcher Rachel Thomas traces childhood scars, everyday cruelties – and vital research around medical bias, anthropology, history.

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:51 PM IST
Lather, rinse, record: A new book traces the ancient history of dhobis of Delhi
They’ve been here since the founding of Shahjahanabad, says SM Channa. Her book explores their world then, and how they are now being edged out of their city.

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:57 PM IST
Leaps of fate: See how people of the past attempted to predict the future
Spiders, parchment, bone and complex math were among the methods ancient cultures used. What drives this need? Who are the soothsayers in our midst today?

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 05:26 PM IST
Landscape view: How the bungalow, born in Bengal,took on new shapes across India
Hybrid formats in Mysuru. A modernist take in Lutyens’ Delhi. Art Deco in Mumbai... see how each of these evolved, what made them special.

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 02:30 PM IST