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Age against the machine: Charles Assisi on seniors and Digital India

OTPs time out, passwords must be changed, details verified in seconds. We’re cutting too many pieces out of the picture. (Above) Ted Danson in Man on the Inside (2024-).

Updated 4 days ago

This is us: Meet the man making documentaries about everyday Indian families

The Sharmas on a recent family trip to Varanasi. (Courtesy Famdocs Collective)

Updated 4 days ago

Seeing red: Deepanjana Pal writes on the Soviet-era space-race show Star City

There is espionage, star-gazing, an autocratic government, quiet rebellion – and a host of truly incredible performances.

Updated 5 days ago

Space race: What will the buildings of the future look like?

The façade of the Shanghai Grand Opera House in China forms a massive stepped space that can be climbed from the outside, and will serve as a free, 24-hour public park. (Snohetta)

Updated 4 days ago

Bouy wonder: Meet the open-ocean swimmer setting world records at 21

Jhingran in the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland, in 2023.

Updated 5 days ago

Crossover tales: Poonam Saxena writes on lesser-known Partition stories

Naseeruddin Shah and Diljit Dosanjh in Imtiaz Ali’s new film, Main Vaapas Aaunga.

Updated 11 days ago

Medal detector: India’s chances have dipped at CWG, says Rudraneil Sengupta

Even athletes such as Asian Games champion Parul Chaudhary will have to up their game. Her record of 15:04.26 makes her the best in Asia, but it would not have been enough to medal at the last CWG. (Getty Images)

Updated 11 days ago

Hue’s in the kitchen: The intriguing role that colour plays in food

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Updated 11 days ago

Your song: How tunes work as names in Meghalaya’s whistling village

The Jingrwai Iawbei or song-name is shaped by the mother as she holds, walks or soothes her baby in its earliest days. (Photo: Paiastar Khongjee)

Updated 12 days ago

Grand quest auto: Videogames weave the chaos of India’s roads into gameplay

A still from Detective Dotson.

Updated 12 days ago

Shots heard around the world : 200 years since the first-ever photograph

It took hours of exposure for Frenchman Nicephore Niepce to capture the world’s first image: a blurry view of rooftops and the countryside around his estate, titled View from the Window at Le Gras; 1826. (Wikimedia)

Updated 11 days ago

I write for children who feel invisible, says British author Patrice Lawrence

‘It’s like a Doctor Who regeneration: a new face, a new mission, built upon everything that has gone before,’ says Lawrence, 59. ‘This gives me a much larger platform on which to talk about the impact of children’s books and stories.’ (Getty Images)

Updated 12 days ago

Did you miss the ending too?: Charles Assisi on lack of intention in our lives

The quiet yesterdays of family time and simple conversation weren’t that long ago. We can still reclaim them. (Above) The Cottage Door (1778-80), by Thomas Gainsborough. (Wikimedia)

Updated 18 days ago

Constellation prize: The fears, myths that explain how planets got their names

An ancient Chinese star chart unearthed in the 7th century CE. (Wikimedia)

Updated 18 days ago

Errors in mapping: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Odyssey

Lupita Nyong’o doesn’t falter as Helen of Troy. But Nolan’s version is a fear-struck woman, a sort of apologetic alter-ego of Homer’s heroine.

Updated 18 days ago

The history of maybe: How far back does probability theory go?

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT)

Updated 18 days ago

For the Record is a gripping, sweeping history of music, says Sanjoy Narayan

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Boston Symphony in 1970. (Getty Images)

Updated 19 days ago

Disco’s revenge: Bhanuj Kappal writes on how the genre has come roaring back

Disco’s syncopated basslines underpin Dua Lipa’s Dance the Night and Beyoncé’s Summer Renaissance. It's in shows such as Bait and films like Dhurandhar: The Revenge. Read on to see why John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever (1977) never really did the genre justice. (Getty Images)

Updated 19 days ago

Stranger things: New Indian sci-fi blends caste, class, tech anxieties

Updated 19 days ago

Robot siblings, octopi societies, dark utopias: The latest from worlds of sci-fi

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via ChatGPT)

Updated 19 days ago

Frozen, not stirred: Inside polar explorer Romain Troublé’s Arctic winter quest

(Photo: Marin Leroux for Tara Ocean Foundation)

Updated 18 days ago

Is there a good way to say: I think your partner may be cheating on you?

In the masterful series Tuca & Bertie (2019), two anthropomorphised female birds cling to their friendship, amid the vagaries of life and love.

Updated 25 days ago

‘Breakfast isn’t colonial. It finds mention in the Ramayana’

Jadoh, a dish of red rice cooked with pork and spices, is sold early morning at food stalls in Shillong. (HT images via ChatGPT)

Updated 25 days ago

We munch at dawn!: A look at the long, delicious history of the Indian breakfast

(HT images via ChatGPT)

Updated 25 days ago

Re-rooting...: Meet the man saving trees by the thousands, with a simple formula

Peddireddi and his Vata Foundation operate mainly in Telangana and Maharashtra. The thing about translocation is it takes time, he says. ‘It takes about 21 days: trim branches, isolate roots, allow fresh leaves and roots to sprout. Then move the tree.’

Updated 25 days ago

Take a bite?: A new cookbook offers a tour of the foods of Somalia

Sambuus, which have a lot in common with the samosa, can be made with egg, poultry, beef. (Khadija Farah for Soomaaliya by Ifrah F Ahmed)

Updated 26 days ago

What happened to Brazil?: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on the football World Cup

Norway’s Erling Haaland (right) scores in the July 6 game that saw Brazil dismissed from the tournament. (AFP)

Updated 26 days ago

Playing all the parts: Music legend Joni Mitchell finally gets her due

Performing at the Grammys in 2025. (Getty Images)

Updated 26 days ago

I worry about how AI could affect my children: Helen Phillips, author of Hum

'Before my children, my fears were abstract,' Phillips says. ‘Now, the future is embodied in specific people: these two people. So, I guess I’m just trying to imagine what it might be like.’ (Getty Images)

Updated 26 days ago

Show and tell: See how museums and galleries are celebrating 250 in the US

Willem de Kooning’s 1956 abstract expressionist painting, January 1st, is part of Glenstone Museum’s celebration of pathbreaking art from America. (Glenstone Museum)

Updated 32 days ago

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