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The I’m Special calendar: A new-year revolution
By Natasha Rego | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON NOV 21, 2020 12:01 PM IST
Brought out by Swarga Foundation in Coimbatore, it features differently abled people each year and is now drawing hundreds of applicants. Meet the 12 young achievers of 2021.
Frozen assets: Paintings from Ajanta enter doomsday world archive
By Natasha Rego | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON NOV 21, 2020 08:36 AM IST
A selection of photographs of the 2,000-year-old art in India’s Ajanta caves has been deposited in the Arctic World Archive. Meet the Indians who made that happen.
Capital in lockdown: Stories from around Delhi-NCR amid coronavirus pandemic
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:11 PM IST
Mayank Austen Soofi aka Delhiwale picks six stories that capture the essence of what has been lost, as life in Delhi endures during the pandemic. Read on to find out which one is the most heart touching.
Mumbai in the time of coronavirus pandemic
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:42 PM IST
We asked six master artists — the poet Javed Akhtar, photographer Sooni Taraporevala, writer Shanta Gokhale, and artists Sudhir Patwardhan, Sudarshan Shetty and Sameer Kulavoor — what the lockdown had meant to them. Here’s what they had to say.
Sudhir Patwardhan’s exclusive artwork Departure depicts the frailty of Mumbai as home
By Dhamini Ratnam | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:16 PM IST
In July, Hindustan Times invited artist Sudhir Patwardhan to create an original work that centred around the theme of the Mumbai and the pandemic. The work is a line drawing titled Departure, and it is a visceral portrayal of three migrants with a child walking with luggage through a deserted street.
A universe of meaning
By Dhamini Ratnam | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 01:03 PM IST
In a 2019 work titled Pieces Earth Left Behind, Sudarshan Shetty displayed 99 pieces of wooden sculptures, each modeled on an object that he found in Mumbai’s Chor Bazaar, a place where old, disused items find a new lease of life.
Art in an apocalypse
By Sameer Kulavoor | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 10:37 AM IST
Like everyone else, I’ve felt like I was in the middle of an apocalypse, hearing about natural disasters, man-made disasters, blasts, politics fuelled by religion and God knows what else.
Hum-safar: Fellow Traveller a poem by Javed Akhtar. Watch video
By Javed Akhtar (Translated from the Urdu version by Rakhshanda Jalil) | Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 10:10 AM IST
Read the English translation and watch Javed Akhtar recite the original Urdu version of his poem Hum-safar about what the coronavirus lockdown meant to the poet and writer.
A walk in the park
By Shanta Gokhale | Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 10:36 AM IST
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.
Housekeeper of Hauz Khas
By Mayank Austen Soofi | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:46 PM IST
For 20 years, Kamni has been working as a housekeeper to scores of one-room pads in Hauz Khas Village, rented mostly by single people pursuing all sorts of occupations. Most of her employers went back home after the Covid-19-triggered lockdown started, because of job losses or salary cuts, leaving Kamni with less income.
Our need for human connection stays
By Sooni Taraporevala | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 10:35 AM IST
Mumbai chronicler Sooni Taraporevala writes about Mumbai during lockdown, “I took myself to the sea that has been part of my childhood and adult years — whether it was zipping down Marine Drive on the back of my dad’s scooter or photographing Parsis at prayer on the day and month of Ava, the water divinity; for me, the sea fronts are the most iconic feature of our city.”
Yellow Pages on Delhi’s walls: With the city shuttered amid Covid-19, vendors leave their phone numbers behind
By Mayank Austen Soofi | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:47 PM IST
When the markets shut down, when the Delhi Metro trains stopped running, and those who had the luxury of a house exiled themselves within it; when the sky regained its blue, the streets emptied out, and all stalls that had no shutter to pull down had to close too, some left their phone numbers behind.
Her elegy to the ordinary: An IT professional’s ode to city life in coronavirus pandemic times
By Mayank Austen Soofi | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:45 PM IST
Jonaki Ray has a day job in an IT company, as a technical editor. She no longer has to commute to Noida to mark her office attendance — thank you, Coronavirus! — and wrote a pandemic-era city-life poem for these pages.
Vowels of the street in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo
By Mayank Austen Soofi | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:13 PM IST
In Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo, each door on the long winding street is marked with an ‘O’ or ‘E’ painted in yellow. While easing up the Coronavirus-triggered lockdown, the Delhi government had announced that shops could finally open for business on an “Odd-Even basis”, and that’s what the ‘O’s and ‘E’s allot.
From choir to duet: Ramayan Paath in the times of coronavirus
By Mayank Austen Soofi | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 04:12 PM IST
Every July, Kshetra Pal and his wife, Pushpa, hold Ramayan Paath, a continuous 24-hour reading of the complete Ramcharitmanas, at their home in Ghaziabad. But how were they to do this during the Covid-19 pandemic when any gathering was deemed life threatening?
Straight Outta Lockdown: The best sounds of 2020
By Rachel Lopez | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 04, 2020 10:55 PM IST
The year has been awful for everything but consistently fantastic for music. Classic and contemporary artists have been on top of their game with new releases. And this is just a sampling (Editor’s Note: look up Secret Machines). Stream these now
The science of forming good habits... and making them stick
By Vanessa Viegas | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 10:34 AM IST
The key lies in neither willpower nor virtue, but in being able to trick your mind.
Watch: Javed Akhtar recites Hum-safar (Co-travellers)
UPDATED ON SEP 05, 2020 08:52 AM IST
A playlist to shake off the Covid blues
By Sukumar Ranganathan | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 04, 2020 08:12 PM IST
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
#Travel: Trekking up a glacier in Iceland
By Mohit Khushalani | Hindustan Times
PUBLISHED ON JUN 08, 2019 03:57 PM IST
Myths come to life amid the black volcanic mountains, falling snow and clear blue ice.
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