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    Can we rise to the ask?: Charles Assisi writes on the power of questions

    Too many of us have lost the art of listening too. We are eager to do the talking, and restless to move on to the next thing. Above, Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef, Jason Schwartzman and Cory Michael Smith in a still from Mountainhead (2025), in which self-absorption and hubris combine to spark chaos.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 2 days ago

    Tree’s company: In this artist’s work, the garden city of Bangalore lives on

    KR Circle, Bangalore - A Collage (1979). (Courtesy Rumale Art House)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 2 days ago

    Licence to flail: Deepanjana Pal on the outstanding streaming series Slow Horses

    (From right) River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) makes the most spectacular mistakes. Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) is a tech wizard but a shifty one. Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), a Cold War-era operative, is grimy and goes out of his way to offend. Yet he is the man I would bet on every time.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 2 days ago

    ABCs of survival: An exhibition explores war through the eyes of children

    Nine-year-olds Alina and Artem in an underground car park-turned-bomb shelter in Ukraine, in 2022. (Unicef / Oleksiy Filippov)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 2 days ago

    Search warrant: The curious case of what humans want to know

    (HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 3 days ago

    How we search is changing: Are we headed for a post-query world?

    (HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath; Photos: Adobe Stock)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 3 days ago

    Music, and lyrics?: Wknd talks to Julie Elie, the award-winning scientist decoding bird calls

    In the field, studying zebra finch calls in Australia, in 2008. Elie has been studying the species since 2004. (Julie Elie / UC Berkeley)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 3 days ago

    An empire of odds and ends: Poonam Saxena on our capacity to hoard

    An Aaditi Joshi installation from 2018, of painted and treated plastic bags, acrylic and wood. (Photo by Ashish Chandra, courtesy TARQ)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 9 days ago

    Hex marks the spot: An exhibition explores how magic has evolved

    An ivory wand inscribed with spells, used to protect pregnant women and newborns, in Ancient Egypt. (Walters Art Museum)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 9 days ago

    Now you see them... now you don’t?: The evolution of camouflage

    Swatches of the brushstroke, tiger stripe, French lizard, frog skin, and MultiCam patterns. (Wikimedia; Museum of Modern Art)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 9 days ago

    The Things We Never Say: Read an excerpt from the new novel by Elizabeth Strout

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    Lifestyle
    Updated 9 days ago

    Cat got your heart?: Sanjoy Narayan writes on a unique artist

    At a concert in Los Angeles, last year. (Getty Images)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 10 days ago

    Winnie the who?: See how the beloved books upended lives, upset their author

    Art from the cover of Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection, released by Dutton to mark the 100th anniversary of the first book. (Art courtesy Penguin Young Readers)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 10 days ago

    We no longer speak openly about politics: A Wknd chat with author Elizabeth Strout

    (Getty Images)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 9 days ago

    Creak show: Is it sound that makes horror films so scary?

    The human scream is echoed in the shrieking violins, in the shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).
    Lifestyle
    Updated 16 days ago

    Case closed? Deepanjana Pal writes on Drishyam 3

    Vijay Salgaonkar, played by Ajay Devgn, has had something of a glow-up since we first met him in 2015.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 16 days ago

    A Japanese guide to keeping it together... when disaster strikes

    The sakura picnic tradition began centuries ago, as a way to tamp down the earth on river banks to prevent flooding in spring. Above, a mid-19th-century depiction by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. (Wikimedia)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 16 days ago

    The time being: Charles Assisi writes on the power of simply waiting

    I and the Village (1911) by Marc Chagall. (Wikimedia)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 16 days ago

    Riffs and resistance: Sanjoy Narayan on how jazz speaks up

    Max Roach’s 1960 landmark album We Insist! Freedom Now Suite.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 16 days ago

    A nod and a rink: A Wknd chat with Indian ice-hockey player Padma Chorol

    A still from Birds on Ice, which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 17 days ago

    To sync or swim? Simran Mangharam on learning how to gracefully agree to disagree

    When it comes to individual journeys, a couple can live and let live. Keeley Jones and Roy Kent from Ted Lasso (2020-), are worlds apart but choose to not let their differences overshadow their relationship.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 23 days ago

    U-turn: Mridula Ramesh writes on the high cost of cheap urea

    (Right) A farmer scatters fertiliser on a banana field in Nashik. Convincing farmers that cheaper urea is not necessarily better urea will not be easy. The aim should be to protect farm incomes while encouraging a more balanced use of nutrients. (Shutterstock)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 23 days ago

    Kicking into beast mode: Rudraneil Sengupta on the sport that demands the most from its player

    Norway’s Erling Haaland (below, right) scores against Brazil during the FIFA World Cup 2026. A footballer may be the most comp-lete athlete in the world: running, jumping, sprinting, braking, with power and flexibility. (Getty Images)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 23 days ago

    Duel purpose: Debunking the myth of the gladiator

     Paul Mescal in Gladiator II (2024). In real life, gladiators weren’t the lean body-builders that Hollywood has glorified. They were conspicuously heavy, with scarred faces, and often-deformed bodies. (Right) Pollice Verso, an 1872 painting of a fight by Jean-Léon Gérôme. (Wikimedia Commons)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 23 days ago

    Book-smart and shelf aware: How AI and bots are changing libraries

    The shelf-reading bot at Singapore’s National Library Board-operated libraries has been helping the staff solve a notoriously familiar problem: spotting misplaced books. (NLB Singapore)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 23 days ago

    Room of requirement: Why libraries now offer drills, telescopes, 3D printers apart from books

    (HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 23 days ago

    Bacteria to Buddha: Read an exclusive excerpt from Ramanan Laxminarayan’s new book

    Bacteria to Buddha: Read an exclusive excerpt from Ramanan Laxminarayan’s new book
    Lifestyle
    Updated 23 days ago

    Micro’s scope: A Wknd chat with epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan

    (Photo: Hsu Li Yang)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 24 days ago

    The measure of a man: Why do we curate a life for the camera?

    We have become people who need evidence our lives happened. In Emily in Paris (2020 -), the protagonist documents everyday moments of her new life in Paris.
    Lifestyle
    Updated 30 days ago

    Right in the feels: Why music gives us ‘chills’

    The strongest predictor of a chill, it turns out, is not volume or a beat drop, but expectation: The brain quietly anticipating the next note, and then being surprised. (HT ILLUSTRATION: MOHIT SUNEJA)
    Lifestyle
    Updated 31 days ago
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