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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 4 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 4 days ago

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

(HT images via ChatGPT)

Updated 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 days ago

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

Performing at the Grammys in 2025. (Getty Images)

Updated 5 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 5 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 11 days ago

Bite-sized cruelties: What we’re getting most wrong at restaurants

Don’t be that guy: Penny (Kaley Cuoco), a waitress, deals with an exasperating customer in The Big Bang Theory.

Updated 11 days ago

Insight out: What goes on in the brain, during an aha moment?

The eyes grow wide, the jaw drops. Some, like Archimedes, shout out version of ‘Eureka!’ Kiki from the Studio Ghibli film Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) has that universal ‘I’ve got it!’ expression.

Updated 11 days ago

Offside stories: Deepanjana Pal writes on football documentaries

In Pele, now streaming on Netflix, one sees how the legend seemed able almost to bewitch the ball into doing his bidding.

Updated 11 days ago

From YouTube to cinemas: Horror tales are bypassing studios to get to big screen

Backrooms stars Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor. Made on a budget of $10 million by 21-year-old YouTuber Kane Parsons, it has earned $330 million at the box office so far.

Updated 11 days ago

Race against time: As the US celebrates 250, Black History Month turns 100

Untitled - Man With Flag by artist David Hammons (1943-). How real is the struggle? On just one parameter, US Federal Reserve and census data indicates that about 44% of Blacks live in a home their family owns, compared to 73% of non-Hispanic Whites. (Glenstone Museum)

Updated 12 days ago

Red, white and the blues: Kashyap Kompella writes on the American Dream at 250

As unions and worker protections weakened from the 1980s on, the massive US economy grew around the working classes rather than for them. (Above) Norman Rockwell’s Freedom from Want (1943). (Wikimedia)

Updated 12 days ago

Above the fold: Wknd interviews Indian-Canadian journalist Haroon Siddiqui

Siddiqui beside an old linotype machine in the lobby of The Toronto Star, in 2001. ‘Whose side was I on? Nobody’s,’ he says. ‘I had a point of view that was based on what I saw, which others either didn’t see or chose not to.’ (Getty Images)

Updated 11 days ago

A promise postponed: The tragic story of the Bollywood classic Teesri Kasam

Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in Teesri Kasam. The uneven village paths, rustic dialogue and soulful soundtrack evoke a timeless mood.

Updated 18 days ago

Sting operations: Meet the professors building smart beehives for India

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Updated 18 days ago

Haute pursuit: A look at the making of a fashion show

Hussein Chalayan’s iconic 2000 Fall/Winter show in London. Models unzipped furniture upholstery and wore the pieces as dresses, reflecting the refugee experience of rebuilding a life with whatever one can find or carry. (Catwalk: The Art of The Fashion Show / V&A Dundee)

Updated 18 days ago

Lingering looks: A 125-year timeline of Dior, dolls and drama on the runway

Model Shalom Harlow poses at the Alexander McQueen 1999 Spring/Summer show as robots spray paint onto her dress. (Getty Images)

Updated 18 days ago

Pose and cons : A look at the 125-year arc of the fashion show

A 2017 Chanel show staged beneath a replica of a rocket. (Catwalk: The Art of The Fashion Show / V&A Dundee)

Updated 18 days ago

Meet the musician remoulding the Miles Davis sound

In an example of what Glasper is doing, his album Everything’s Beautiful reshapes material from the Davis archive, and is formally credited to Davis and him. (Via @RobertGlasper on Instagram)

Updated 19 days ago

Feels like home: How ‘digital twins’ are helping plan the future of our cities

Singapore was the first country to deploy such a system on a nationwide scale.

Updated 19 days ago

How on earth is he doing this?: Rudraneil Sengupta on Messi at the World Cup

He barely runs anymore, yet he’s always where one least expects. Above, the 39-year-old in action against Austria, during the ongoing World Cup. (Getty Images)

Updated 19 days ago

This Wiki, that year: The world’s online encyclopaedia turns 25

What Wikipedia is to the world of facts and information, Wikimedia has been to art, heritage and natural history. Seen here: Images of John Singer Sargent’s 1918 painting, Gassed; a necklace dating to 1800 BCE Egypt; and a Eurasian hoopoe.

Updated 19 days ago

We know now that, at our best, we can beat any team: hockey’s Manpreet Singh

“I want to win as many medals as there are for India,” says Singh, 34. “I want to be the role model others have been to me.” (Photo: FIH)

Updated 19 days ago

Maturity leave: Charles Assisi writes on watching heroes age

Metallica offers hope, via reinvention. Band members don’t live like they’re still in their 20s. They have treated aging somewhat like elite athletes do, following strict health regimens and travelling with physical therapists and trainers. (Redferns via Getty Images)

Updated 25 days ago

Capital Letters: Lore about eagles, swallows; how the turkey got its name

Is the owl a sign of wisdom, or of bad luck headed your way? The answer depends on where, geographically, you are standing. (Wikimedia)

Updated 25 days ago

What’s another word for...: Inside the Ashoka database of Indian translations

A still from Interstellar (2014). Translation too is a kind of time travel, each work a gift pieced together and transmitted to generations of the present and future.

Updated 25 days ago

Wicked little letters: Some of the world’s worst, and best, typos are on display

(HT Imaging)

Updated 25 days ago

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