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Weekend Planner (Jan 3-Jan 4): Delhi-NCR residents, you must check this out!

From late veteran Dharmendra and Agastya Nanda-starrer Ikkis and Rakesh Badi's Love Online to winter special brunches and handicrafts bazaars, this week has a lot to offer. Check out HT City's Weekend Planner before you plan your Saturday (January 3) and Sunday (January 4).

Published 192 days ago

New ear resolution: Sanjoy Narayan on the iconic Sennheiser HD 600 headphones

These humble German cans that can be bought for about $270 are the audiophile’s equivalent of a beat-up Fender guitar: a tool that melts into the art instead of stealing the spotlight.

Updated 414 days ago

Doctors by Nature: Read an excerpt from a book about how animals heal themselves

Updated 414 days ago

Blocked buster: Deepanjana Pal on the tussle over the release of Bhool Chuk Maaf

Bhool Chuk Maaf, starring Rajkummar Rao, needn’t have had such a crisis of confidence. With just a two-week window before it becomes available on streaming, the odds are now stacked against its theatrical run.

Updated 415 days ago

What came before the UN?: In Egypt, China, ancient bids to administer the world

The remarkable Terracotta Army was crafted during the Qin dynasty, in the 3rd century BCE. At one point, this dynasty aimed to govern “all under heaven”. (Shutterstock)

Updated 415 days ago

For best results: Why countries group together, despite the UN

A child on a swing outside a Kyiv building bombed by a Russian missile. When fading or dysfunctional multilateralism doesn’t meet a country’s interests, it will find other ways to exert influence or extract resources. This is where the role of the UN becomes vital. (Getty Images)

Updated 415 days ago

An experiment UNdone: Prashant Jha writes on what ails the United Nations

(HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated 415 days ago

How does it all go so pear-shaped?: Poonam Saxena writes on bonds with mothers

Author Swadesh Deepak. (Image: Soumitra Mohan)

Updated 422 days ago

The Ruins of Gour: Read an excerpt from a book on Bengal’s lost cities

The Kadam Rasul or Footprint of the Messenger mosque. (The Ruins of Gour)

Updated 422 days ago

Capital gains: Tour the lost cities of Gaur and Pandua in West Bengal

The Firoz Minar in Gaur. (Leah Verghese)

Updated 422 days ago

The end of the Age of Kohli: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on an exceptional leader

When was the last time we had a cricketer who wore his heart on his sleeve as Virat Kohli did? (PTI)

Updated 422 days ago

A host of mini-me’s: History of the tiny bio, and what makes it so hard to frame

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated 428 days ago

Blunt-force drama: Deepanjana Pal writes on the new series Black, White and Gray

Palak Jaiswal in Black, White & Gray - Love Kills.

Updated 429 days ago

Jane character energy: How are Austen’s novels still the stuff of blockbusters?

The Bridget Jones franchise is the story of Pride and Prejudice, retold. Watch the fourth instalment, this year’s …Mad About the Boy, for the way it moves its characters beautifully into uncertain middle-age.

Updated 430 days ago

It’s not just that the heat could kill you: Author, researcher Jeff Goodell

A pharmacy in Rome displays the day’s temperature, as a means of alerting pedestrians. (Getty Images)

Updated 430 days ago

Feel the burn?: The nature of the heat we face is changing

Rajpath shimmers in the Delhi heat. IMD does not yet factor humidity levels into its heatwave parameters. This is an issue, because humidity levels are rising - as part of the urban heat island effect - even in the drier megacities. This is part of what is making heat more deadly. (HT Archive)

Updated 430 days ago

The thing is...: Wknd interviews an unusual collector of everyday objects

Over 50 years, Khandakar has collected 12,000 objects. Some are extraordinary – antiques dating to the Mughal era. Many are simply the nuts and bolts of the everyday: pens, toys, perfume bottles, beads, letters. (Anand Kumar Ekbote; Dotgain Info for Berlin Biennale 2022)

Updated 430 days ago

India, Angola, Peru and the Moon: See who’s on an endangered heritage sites list

The Sea of Tranquillity, with its unusually flat surface, has served as a landing pad for numerous Moon missions, including the first manned one, featuring Buzz Aldrin. A flag, a boot print and assorted trash and memorabilia now lie strewn across the area. (Getty Images)

Updated 435 days ago

The vault in our stars: Rudraneil Sengupta on Indian gymnastics

What does it take to pull off this kind of balancing act? Don’t ask the Gymnastics Federation of India. (Photo Courtesy Laureus)

Updated 435 days ago

Best fruit forward: Check out a unique ‘mango museum’ in Gujarat

Samples of the red ivory, strawberry, banana and King of Chakapat mangoes grown on the Jariyas’ 12-acre farm.

Updated 435 days ago

The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide

Viewed as a separate country, India 1 - made up of the top 10% - would consist of about 140 million people, with per capita income at about <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>12.80 lakh. (Pixabay)

Updated 435 days ago

Just someone I used to know?: Charles Assisi writes on fading intimacy

We rarely even talk about it, except perhaps in the movies. (Above) Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg play cousins, once close and now in different worlds, in the masterful film A Real Pain (2024).

Updated 442 days ago

What are we all watching?: Deepanjana Pal on the missing Hindi comfort show

Hollwood is still doing the comfort watch fairly well. This year’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a good example. It allows Jones to retain her silliness but adds layers of depth and even pathos.

Updated 442 days ago

A thriller Top 10: Check out K Narayanan’s essential Hitchcock watchlist

Updated 444 days ago

‘Are we ready for this?’: Wknd interviews the astrophysicist who captured signs

The gas signatures Madhusudhan and his team at Cambridge have detected are the surest signs of life outside Earth that humanity has ever encountered. How we interpret and build on this data, from 124 light years away, will be crucial, he says.

Updated 442 days ago

Read herrings: Poonam Saxena celebrates Hindi crime writer Surendra Mohan Pathak

Pathak’s aura remains undimmed, even though the glory days of Hindi pulp-fiction themselves are long over. (HT Archives)

Updated 449 days ago

More than you can chew: Swetha Sivakumar explores extreme food records

Where do you draw the line?: Shaggy and Scooby-Doo.

Updated 449 days ago

Pounds and prejudice: Graphic novel Shrink explores life in a large body

Updated 449 days ago

Lather, rinse, record: A new book traces the ancient history of dhobis of Delhi

A dhobi at work in Jangpura, Delhi. (HT Archives)

Updated 449 days ago

Leaps of fate: See how people of the past attempted to predict the future

A 19th-century Chinese wheel of fortune. (Courtesy Divination, Oracles & Omens)

Updated 449 days ago

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