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Match point: Simran Mangharam writes on meet-cutes in the real world

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How many of us would smile at a stranger today, exchange numbers, allow for the idea that they may not be a threat? (Above) A still from The Bridges of Madison County (1992).

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Updated on Aug 08, 2026 02:50 pm IST

Memory Keepers and Future Seekers: Excerpt from a book on heritage homes in Goa

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The photobook was conceived and executed by documentary photographer Ulka Chauhan, with essays by Samira Sheth.

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Updated on Aug 08, 2026 02:38 pm IST

Down memory lane: A photobook steps inside centuries-old mansions in Goa

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The 300-year-old D’Sa Condillac House in Aldona. (Photo courtesy Ulka Chauhan)

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Updated on Aug 08, 2026 09:00 pm IST

Drawings, notes, hopes and dreams: Inside a rare museum of children’s notebooks

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Tales of war and winter, boredom and scarcity.... an entire parallel history of a kind sits in the 2,500 documents preserved at the Milan museum. (Museum of Children’s Books)

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Updated on Aug 08, 2026 02:47 pm IST

In the throws of victory: Rudraneil Senguta unpacks India’s ties to the javelin

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Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage and India’s Annu Rani and Neeraj Chopra. (PTI, Getty, ANI)

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Updated on Aug 08, 2026 01:15 pm IST

Scream therapy: 10 Stephen King films you probably haven’t watched – and should

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In Dolan’s Cadillac (2009), a bereaved husband devises an elaborate plan that takes years to execute, centred on a gangster’s prized car.

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Updated on Aug 08, 2026 03:00 pm IST

Turning pointe: See how a ballet set in India has been reimagined

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The revised La Bayadere features characters that feel authentic, mixed-race dancers, and backdrops that contain footage of real locations in Tamil Nadu. (Image courtesy Altin Kaftira)

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Updated on Aug 08, 2026 02:44 pm IST

Let the record show...: Sanjoy Narayan on Foreign Tongues by The Rolling Stones

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At a gig in Amsterdam in 2022. Jagger is now 83, Keith Richards is 82, and Ronnie Wood, 79. Yet there is no attempt in the new album to lean on an incredible past, or even trot out familiar sounds. (Shutterstock)

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Updated on Aug 07, 2026 06:24 pm IST

I found joy so late in life, I can’t lose my smile:Para-athlete Sharmila Dhankar

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The shot-putter has won India's first-ever gold in para-athletics at a CWG. ‘I want to say to women facing domestic abuse: Don’t be scared. Take your shot and your life might just change completely,’ Dhankar says.

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Updated on Aug 07, 2026 02:50 pm IST

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

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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-).

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Updated on Aug 01, 2026 04:47 pm IST

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

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

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Updated on Aug 01, 2026 08:12 pm IST

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

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

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Updated on Jul 31, 2026 06:46 pm IST

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

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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)

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Updated on Aug 01, 2026 04:26 pm IST

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

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

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Updated on Jul 31, 2026 05:42 pm IST

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

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

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Updated on Jul 26, 2026 02:59 pm IST

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

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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)

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Updated on Jul 26, 2026 09:00 pm IST

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

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Updated on Jul 25, 2026 07:47 pm IST

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

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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)

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Updated on Jul 25, 2026 03:00 pm IST

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

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A still from Detective Dotson.

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Updated on Jul 24, 2026 07:16 pm IST

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

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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)

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Updated on Jul 25, 2026 06:05 pm IST

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

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‘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)

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Updated on Jul 24, 2026 03:53 pm IST

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

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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)

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Updated on Jul 18, 2026 06:09 pm IST

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

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

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Updated on Jul 18, 2026 06:12 pm IST

Errors in mapping: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Odyssey

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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.

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Updated on Jul 18, 2026 05:55 pm IST

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

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Updated on Jul 18, 2026 06:07 pm IST

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

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

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Updated on Jul 17, 2026 10:14 pm IST

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

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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)

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Updated on Jul 17, 2026 05:35 pm IST