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Seeing double: Check out re-imagined versions of classics from within the Louvre

In his collage, Louvre Remix, the Beninese sculptor Georges Adeagbo places Eugene Delacroix’s famous painting of Liberty striding through a battlefield beside Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman dressed in the colours of the French flag – a seeming reminder that while the French standard (held aloft in the Liberty painting) signals freedom to those at home, it has meant very different things when it has travelled. (Mennour Archives, Paris)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025, 7:57 PM IST

Ctrl + See: Masterpieces from within the Louvre are getting a makeover

Rembrandt’s Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654) is re-imagined, by the Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming, as a portrait of the maid. (Wikimedia; Clerin-Morin, ADAGP, Paris)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025, 7:56 PM IST

Lore and order: Deepanjana Pal on the new Mahabharat series, and Lokah Chapter 1

Kalyani Priyadarshan as the superhero Chandra in Lokah Chapter 1.

Updated on Nov 7, 2025, 2:53 PM IST

Rakesfall: Read an excerpt from the winner of the Ursula K Le Guin Prize

Updated on Nov 7, 2025, 1:38 PM IST

The eras tour: A Wknd chat with Vajra Chandrasekera, author of Rakesfall

(Photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe)

Updated on Nov 8, 2025, 7:41 PM IST

Smooth criminal: Poonam Saxena on the charm of Ajit, the unusual villain

You likely know the lines, even if you don’t know the name. “Mona Darling.” “Lily, don’t be silly.” Those were both Ajit.

Updated on Nov 1, 2025, 5:08 PM IST

‘Our son was our rockstar. This is how we remember him’

The statue of Swarnab Bagchi surrounded by visitors, at the ‘memory museum’ built by his parents, Sthita and Manab Bagchi (extreme right).

Updated on Nov 1, 2025, 1:20 PM IST

A long goodbye: Life-sized silicone statues are helping families in India mourn

Silicone sculptures of Samit Dutta’s parents, Arun and Hena Dutta, in Kolkata.

Updated on Nov 1, 2025, 5:07 PM IST

Excerpts from The Curious Zoo…: Meet the deadly spider, a bug that sprays pee

Each story is translated into at least one more language, so some have versions in Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Telugu, Bangla, Hindi, Spanish or Thai. Above, a story on the springing worm in Hindi, in Japanese and in English. (Images; Bhamla Lab)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025, 7:03 PM IST

On the sunny side of the street: Swetha Sivakumar decodes SPF

Woman with a Parasol (1875) by the French impressionist Claude Monet. For most of settled history, the rich only sporadically spent time outdoors. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025, 5:00 PM IST

The Curious Zoo...: A comic uses science to cast bugs and spiders as superstars

A tale in The Curious Zoo of Extraordinary Organisms explains the gliding of the rapid ripple bug. (Image: Bhamla Lab)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025, 4:59 PM IST

Non-price inflation: When numbers lose all meaning

Updated on Oct 31, 2025, 5:50 PM IST

Where is all your money going?: Kashyap Kompella on personal inflation

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025, 8:22 PM IST

‘We need to move fast’: As Vivek Menon makes history at IUCN, an interview

With a black-banded trinket snake in Meghalaya. (Subhamoy Bhattacharjee)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025, 2:35 PM IST

He ran for peace, and Palestine. His journey has ended

Maraheel, the first Palestinian athlete to compete at the Olympics (in 1996), was born into a Bedouin family. He died in a Gaza refugee camp last year, from an untreated kidney ailment, aged 61.

Updated on Oct 31, 2025, 2:02 PM IST

Would he be proud of me today? Charles Assisi reflects on his younger self

Look again: A still from the videogame Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (2025). Set across two timelines, it follows a group of young women as they revisit their adolescence.

Updated on Oct 25, 2025, 2:02 PM IST

That’s what they all say...: How idioms change around the world

‘Out of the frying pan...’ in Indonesian becomes ‘out of the tiger’s mouth, and into the crocodile’s’. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 25, 2025, 2:00 PM IST

The Tree of Life: Read an exclusive excerpt from a new book by Max Telford

Updated on Oct 25, 2025, 1:59 PM IST

Click on all links: A look at the latest version of the Tree of Life

The tree, as of 2016. It still contains just a fraction of 1% of species estimated to be alive today. (Jill Banfield / UC Berkeley, Laura Hug / University of Waterloo et al)

Updated on Oct 25, 2025, 1:55 PM IST

Back tie affair: Unwrapping the history of the apron

Jeremy Allen White in The Bear.

Updated on Oct 25, 2025, 1:50 PM IST

The Diplomat, Tempest: Deepanjana Pal writes on a new numbers game

Keri Russell as Kate Wyler in The Diplomat.

Updated on Oct 25, 2025, 1:14 PM IST

Safer Agentic AI: Read an excerpt from Nell Watson’s book on guardrails

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:28 PM IST

Frankenstein, Skynet, Ultron: Sentient machines in pop culture

In Arthur C Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the supercomputer HAL prioritises mission objectives over the lives of crew members.

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:22 PM IST

Earlier machines replaced labour; these replace thought: AI ethicist Nell Watson

A still from Her (2013). Even assuming AI never crosses over into sentience, we must prepare for the illusion of it; and for the fallout of that ‘deception’.

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:18 PM IST

Mirror, mirror...: What to worry about when you worry about AI

(HT illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:37 PM IST

Railsong: Read an excerpt from the new novel by award-winning Rahul Bhattacharya

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 2:59 PM IST

Heart on the line: Wknd interviews Rahul Bhattacharya, author of Railsong

(HT Photo: Satish Bate)

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 2:55 PM IST

In sickness, in health, in law: Simran Mangharam on loving your spouse’s family

A still from The Flintstones. Don’t be primitive. Give things time. Let your partner find their own ways of turning mutual respect into affection, and eventually into kinship.

Updated on Oct 18, 2025, 7:04 PM IST

Built to last: 30 years on, the legacy of Catan

The boardgame requires players to strategise but also collaborate, in order to make the most of their resources, as they build new settlements.

Updated on Oct 18, 2025, 7:03 PM IST

Zebras crossing: Why life-sized animal puppets are ‘stampeding’ around the world

The Herds at the Jostedal Glacier in Norway. (Image: The Walk Productions / Vegard Aasen)

Updated on Oct 18, 2025, 7:00 PM IST

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