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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).

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Published on Jan 01, 2026 03:00 pm IST

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

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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 on May 24, 2025 06:04 pm IST

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

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Updated on May 24, 2025 05:58 pm IST

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

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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 on May 23, 2025 04:04 pm IST

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

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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 on May 23, 2025 03:59 pm IST

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

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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 on May 23, 2025 03:55 pm IST

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

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(HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on May 23, 2025 03:51 pm IST

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

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Author Swadesh Deepak. (Image: Soumitra Mohan)

Updated on May 17, 2025 01:51 pm IST

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

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

Updated on May 17, 2025 01:45 pm IST

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

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The Firoz Minar in Gaur. (Leah Verghese)

Updated on May 17, 2025 01:42 pm IST

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

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

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

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(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on May 10, 2025 03:13 pm IST

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

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

Updated on May 10, 2025 02:44 pm IST

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

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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 on May 09, 2025 01:38 pm IST

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

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

Updated on May 09, 2025 01:36 pm IST

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

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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 on May 09, 2025 01:31 pm IST

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

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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 on May 09, 2025 01:29 pm IST

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

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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 on May 03, 2025 05:47 pm IST

The vault in our stars: Rudraneil Sengupta on Indian gymnastics

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

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:45 pm IST

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

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

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:44 pm IST

The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide

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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 ₹12.80 lakh. (Pixabay)

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 am IST

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

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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 on Apr 26, 2025 03:14 pm IST

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

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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 on Apr 26, 2025 02:58 pm IST

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

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Updated on Apr 25, 2025 02:35 pm IST

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

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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 on Apr 26, 2025 03:07 pm IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:59 pm IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:54 pm IST

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

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Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:51 pm IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:57 pm IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 05:26 pm IST

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