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Big bang theory: The intriguing history of fireworks

A depiction of early experiments in China. First it was discovered that air pockets in the bamboo stalk explode with heat. When gunpowder was invented, the two were then combined. Paper wrapping came much later. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 10:47 PM IST

Twists of fete: Around the world in unusual festivals

Theyyam combines ancestor worship, fertility rites and myth, and is believed to have originated among indigenous tribes in the Malabar region of present-day Kerala. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 7:30 PM IST

Welcome to the party: This Diwali, a look at the ancient history of celebration

A painting dated to the 1700s shows Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah watching a fireworks display. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 7:21 PM IST

Foam improvement: Swetha Sivakumar on the history of toothpaste

The Dentist (1629), a satirical painting by Dutch artist Jan Miense Molenaer. In pre-industrialised Europe, there was no anaesthetic yet, and treatment was largely limited to gouging and tugging extractions performed by medicine men. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:46 PM IST

In neo-punk, rage finds an unlikely ally: Hope, says Sanjoy Narayan

Cover art for the album Love Like Snow by Candy.

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:38 PM IST

Tough acts to follow: Do footballers’ kids make good players?

Marcus Thuram of Inter Milan and his brother Khephren Thuram of Juventus during a Serie A game in February. (Getty Images)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:31 PM IST

Our Brains, Our Selves:An excerpt from the award-winning book by Dr Masud Husain

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:29 PM IST

How does the brain do it all? Dr Masud Husain chats with Wknd about his new book

(Photo by Oliver Mayhall)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:30 PM IST

Read ’em and leap: Charles Assisi on the shift from non-fiction to fiction

Free your mind: At the Jedi Archives, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), a set inspired by the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin.

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 12:59 PM IST

A wild muse chase: Sanjoy Narayan on the kinship of jazz and hip-hop

The Get Down (2016) on Netflix, starring Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Tremaine Brown Jr, Skylan Brooks and Jaden Smith, reminded us of what the Bronx in the 1970s really was: a crucible.

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 12:47 PM IST

Banishing acts: What is cancel-culture insurance and why does it exist?

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 5:07 PM IST

Are you seeing what I’m seeing?: Deepanjana Pal writes on Homebound

Homebound, starring Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa as the friends Shoaib and Chandan, is earnest and evocative. But why are poverty and marginalisation the two mens’ only identity?

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 11:47 AM IST

Tide and prejudice: In coastal Kerala, a play is a prayer for drowning villages

Sailaja Jayanthan, a daily-wage labourer, holds up a jar from her kitchen as she talks about the damage done to her home.

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 11:38 AM IST

Beyond our orbit: The strangest planets we have uncovered so far

HD 189733 b sits 64 light years away and looks quite Earth-like. But its blue comes from an atmosphere so hot, it has turned the silica in its air into glass. (NASA / JPL-CALTECH)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:11 PM IST

We scan and we will: A brief history of our efforts to listen for alien life

The planet factory in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy film (2005). Assuming there is intelligent life out there (a reasonable assumption), what might it look like? Where would we sit on the scale of such intelligence? Our search for answers continues.

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:04 PM IST

Mirror worlds: Planets we’ve uncovered that are sci-fi come to life

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:01 PM IST

Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for alien life planet

Stills from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Martian (2015) and Interstellar (2014). A NASA rendering of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068; an image of the Curiosity lander on Mars; and a rendering of the Trappist 1 system. (Images: NASA / CXC / SAO / J Schmidt and N Wolk; NASA / JPL-Caltech)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 5:56 PM IST

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: An excerpt from Steven Pinker’s book

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 5:53 PM IST

What I know you know...: Steven Pinker on how common knowledge shapes our world

Photo by Eric Haynes

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:17 PM IST

Insider exclusive: Poonam Saxena on Ba***ds of Bollywood and films about films

Helen and a group of dancers practise their moves on the keys of a giant red typewriter, in Bombay Talkie (1970).

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 4:18 PM IST

In photos: More snapshots from government offices around the world

In Shibam district, Yemen, Mohammed Hamid Azein works with the water department. (Jan Banning)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 4:16 PM IST

Paper trail: Take a tour, in photos, of government offices across 5 continents

At the Old Secretariat in Patna. (Jan Banning)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 4:14 PM IST

Opening stand: Rudraneil Sengupta on the early years of women’s cricket in India

September 30: India's Amanjot Kaur watches the ball after playing a shot during the ongoing ICC Women's World Cup, in a match against Sri Lanka in Guwahati. (AFP)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 4:11 PM IST

Rice, with a side of weaponry: Swetha Sivakumar on hidden talents of foodgrains

(Images: Adobe Stock)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 4:08 PM IST

Dark wellness: A new genre of fiction traces grim extremes of self-care

Updated on Oct 3, 2025, 6:31 PM IST

Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care

Luncheon of the Boating Party; 1881, by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Who gets to decide how one's time is spent? That has always been a measure of privilege. (Google Arts & Culture)

Updated on Oct 3, 2025, 6:28 PM IST

Less is core: Are many of us simply doing self-care wrong?

Updated on Oct 3, 2025, 5:32 PM IST

From Fire to Sabar Bonda: Dhrubo Jyoti on the quiet revolution in queer cinema

Bhushaan Manoj and Suraaj Suman are remarkable as the friends-turning-tentative-lovers Anand and Balya.

Updated on Oct 3, 2025, 4:55 PM IST

End Game: An exclusive excerpt from the new novel by Jeffrey Archer

Updated on Oct 3, 2025, 4:52 PM IST

It’s time to let go: Jeffrey Archer on mysteries, regret, writing his last novel

‘I wanted to be a politician. I would have liked to have been an opera singer. I would have liked to captain the England cricket team – and bowl Tendulkar out. But I ended up a storyteller. That’s a God-given gift. I got lucky,’ Archer says.

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 5:58 PM IST

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