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Landscape view: How the bungalow, born in Bengal,took on new shapes across India

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 09:00 IST

The Shovabazar Rajbari in Kolkata. The grandeur of these erstwhile homes came at a price. It cost about 10 times as much to build a bungalow in Kolkata as it did elsewhere in colonised India. (Getty Images)

Plot twist: How the bungalow was born in India and has travelled the world since

The Manale Tea Bungalow, built in the 1800s, in Munnar, Kerala. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 08:57 IST

The Living Air: Read an excerpt from the book on birding by Aasheesh Pittie

The Living Air: The Pleasures of Birds and Birding was published by Indian Pitta in 2023.

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 07:45 IST

No need to multi-mask: Life Hacks with Charles Assisi

Deux Tetes (Two Heads) by Karel Appel; 1953. (Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 18:02 IST

How does one perfect a staple? Swetha Sivakumar’s go-to recipe for aloo-beans

The no-fail aloo-beans. ‘It’s been such a success, my daughter said I could make it every week,’ says Sivakumar.

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 12:29 IST

That sudden urge to jump from a high place? It has a name: the call of the void

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 10:50 IST

Weekend Planner (April 12-13): Delhi-NCR residents, you must check this out!

Discover the best films, food fests, fitness, and cultural events in Delhi-NCR with HT City's Weekend Planner.

htcity delhi junction

Published on Apr 12, 2025 07:53 IST

The wrong side of the spotlight: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Studio

Seth Rogen seems like an unlikely choice at first, for the role of a studio head. In minutes, though, it is hard to imagine anyone else playing the part.

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 14:04 IST

Tooning in: Avatars are replacing sportstars on tennis courts, football pitches

The NFL streamed a Simpsons-themed Dallas Cowboys vs Cincinnati Bengals game, in December. (ESPN)

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 13:30 IST

Capital: Read an excerpt from the award-winning book by Rana Dasgupta

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 11:07 IST

The state we’re in: Rana Dasgupta on awards, AI, the decline of the nation-state

(Courtesy Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 17:50 IST

The pace maker: Indian runner Gulveer Singh is breaking new ground

If Gulveer Singh can shave a few seconds more off his time, he could truly become one of the global elite. (Courtesy SAI / X)

Updated on Apr 5, 2025 08:55 IST

A Beta world: A peek into the future of the next generation

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 09:56 IST

Fleshy, flame-born, voracious: The world’s strangest flowers

The carnivorous California pitcher. Read on to see how it traps its prey. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 10:13 IST

A mouthful of sky: Vir Sanghvi interviews chef Gaggan Anand

(HT Archives)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 09:55 IST

Ancient billboard: Tiny tales emerge from Kashmiri epigraphs

The epigraph at the 600-year-old Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. (Wikimedia Commons, Hakim Sameer Hamdani, Tabish Haider / Barakat Trust)

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 16:51 IST

Cricket has a new superhero: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on Glenn Phillips

Phillips in action, during the recent Champions Trophy match against India. (ANI)

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 16:43 IST

A ‘Google Maps’ for Low-Earth Orbit?: Meet founders of space start-up Digantara

Anirudh Sharma, Tanveer Ahmed and Rahul Rawat at the Digantara lab in Bengaluru. (Samuel Rajkumar / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 09:14 IST

How to beat the algo-rhythm: Sanjoy Narayan writes on curated playlists

Seek out the human-made lists and one begins to discover real gold, such as the 2022 album In Tense, by the New York-based composer and bassist Harish Raghavan.

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 09:22 IST

A shot in the arm: Swetha Sivakumar writes on the penicillin pushers

Spores of a penicillin fungus. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 10:13 IST

When a list just writes itself: The changing world of note-taking apps

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 09:19 IST

The silent type: Take a peek inside the world of wordless books

Sunaina Coelho brings her experiences as a mother and an artist together to tell a story of excitement, fear, and a boy’s first day at school, in this 2021 title.

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 09:14 IST

Notes from the sidelines: Deepanjana Pal writes on Anora and Sthal

A still from Sthal. Set in rural Maharashtra and enacted by a brilliant cast of non-actors, it is an unflinching portrait of what it means to be young and have dreams that are for-ever clashing with one’s reality.

Updated on Mar 14, 2025 10:56 IST

The Language Puzzle: An excerpt from a book on the history of the spoken word

Updated on Mar 14, 2025 10:54 IST

Vroom of her own: Wknd interviews 10-year-old go-karting champion Atiqa Mir

Mir at a 2025 World Series Karting race in Milan.

Updated on Mar 14, 2025 10:51 IST

Why are you so tired all the time?: Kashyap Kompella breaks it down

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Mar 13, 2025 13:56 IST

Where, when, how?: Dhamini Ratnam writes on the great office reshuffle

(HT illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Mar 8, 2025 07:22 IST

Redrawing the global map: Prashant Jha on how the pandemic reshaped geopolitics

A protest by anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers in Canada, in 2021. (Getty Images)

Updated on Mar 7, 2025 14:18 IST

The big pivots in global trade: Prashant Jha on the pandemic and globalisation

Shipping containers at a deserted port in Shanghai, in 2022. (Getty Images)

Updated on Mar 7, 2025 14:23 IST

Five years later: R Sukumar looks back on how we fared in and after the pandemic

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Mar 8, 2025 11:49 IST

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