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Diary of a peacekeeper: Art show traces India’s forgotten role in a Korean war

Hind Nagar, the temporary Indian peacekeeping base set up at the DMZ.

Updated on Jul 19, 2025, 12:55 PM IST

In photos: What did our fruits, vegetables look like thousands of years ago?

Italian painter Giovanni Stanchi’s still-life painting from the 17th century shows a pale version of the modern watermelon. This fruit started out almost white, and quite bitter. (Courtesy Christie’s)

Updated on Jul 18, 2025, 5:06 PM IST

Crisper effect: Fruits, vegetables of future could heal, kill, aid in defence

Above, a representation of how AI views the future of produce. The real evolution is, in some ways, stranger. Already, labs are turning out bananas that pack a vaccine punch and cabbages imbued with a scorpion’s sting.

Updated on Jul 18, 2025, 5:05 PM IST

Secrets in Aisle 3: See how our fruits and vegetables once looked

The watermelon has its roots in the bitter, white-fleshed Kordofan melon, native to Africa. (HT photo illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Jul 18, 2025, 5:03 PM IST

The Dream Hotel: An exclusive excerpt from Laila Lalami’s dystopian new novel

Updated on Jul 18, 2025, 9:03 PM IST

There are always ways to resist: Wknd interviews dystopian author Laila Lalami

(Photo by Beowulf and Shaheen)

Updated on Jul 19, 2025, 1:01 PM IST

A full-throttle flashback: Poonam Saxena on India’s early F1 film, Apradh

A full-throttle flashback: Poonam Saxena on India’s early F1 film, Apradh

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:49 PM IST

A souper Swiss spectacle: Notes from the festival of L’Escalade in Geneva

(Kalpana Sunder)

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:48 PM IST

A woman in Wisconsin is making dolls that look like the child they’re meant for

Julia with her doll. Each doll is designed to mirror the special abilities as well as the personality, hairdo and fashion choices of its recipient. (A Doll Like Me)

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:45 PM IST

Toy story: Swetha Sivakumar on the tussles over kitchen appliances

Swetha Sivakumar with some of her toys: a panini maker, small grinder, food processor, electric pressure cooker, egg poacher, air fryer, two blenders and a small chopper.

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:40 PM IST

Who am AI, really?

Are you spinning out, or is it the bot you’re talking to? (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:39 PM IST

The X factor: An Indian has cracked the code to randomness in the virtual world

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:01 PM IST

Echoes of a Master: As Krishen Khanna turns 100, artists describe his impact

The Black Truck (1974) by Krishen Khanna. (Image courtesy Saffronart)

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:05 PM IST

Art on his sleeve: As Krishen Khanna turns 100, an exclusive Wknd interview

(HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 12, 2025, 2:04 PM IST

A thing of beauty: Rudraneil Sengupta on Shubman Gill at Edgbaston

Gill celebrates 200. (Reuters)

Updated on Jul 10, 2025, 5:49 PM IST

Write and wrong: We’re losing our last manual skill, says Charles Assisi

The Woman at the Desk by German impressionist Lesser Ury; 1898. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Jul 5, 2025, 1:06 PM IST

Can your mixed emotions make you a better thinker? New science says they can

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 5, 2025, 12:54 PM IST

Stream team: Check out Deepanjana Pal’s mid-year watchlist

The Apothecary Diaries wears its progressive, feminist heart on its sleeve.

Updated on Jul 5, 2025, 12:37 PM IST

Hot plate: The climate crisis is now changing the flavour of our food

Longer summers are affecting the European hops that give beer its distinct flavour. Warming ocean waters have altered, and then led to the deaths of, billions of snow crabs in the Bering Sea. Onions are gaining pungency in drought conditions. A shortage of acorns amid heatwaves and droughts is affecting the prized Ibérico ham in Spain. (Adobestock)

Updated on Jul 6, 2025, 10:26 AM IST

Guru Dutt at 100: A Wknd tribute to a tortured artist and his enduring art

(HT Archives)

Updated on Jul 4, 2025, 6:21 PM IST

Filmmaker Raj Khosla at 100: A tale of Dutt, dacoits and a double life

(Wikimedia)

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

Guru Dutt at 100: See how other filmmakers have paid tribute through the years

A still from Rahenge Sadaa Gardish Mein Taare; Saif Hasan (2017), a teleplay built around the story of Dutt, his wife singer Geeta Dutt (nee Roy) and the rumours of a great love between him and his muse, Waheeda Rehman.

Updated on Jul 4, 2025, 3:50 PM IST

Wicket smart: Wknd interviews psychologist-turned-cricket star Pratika Rawal

(Saikat Das / Sportzpics for BCCI)

Updated on Jul 4, 2025, 3:30 PM IST

Cupid’s caveat: What happens when a great love meets an insurmountable challenge

To give up a love that works — in every way except logistically — is an excruciating thing. Above, a still from Wong Kar-Wai’s tragic In the Mood for Love (2000)

Updated on Jun 28, 2025, 1:17 PM IST

Toronto’s finest treblemakers: Sanjoy Narayan is live at a gig by BadBadNotGood

The cover art for Mid Spiral, released last July.

Updated on Jun 28, 2025, 1:05 PM IST

At India’s No-Agenda Spaces, read, laze, lounge in a stranger’s home

Chaudhury's home is ‘open’ five days a week, from 12.30 pm to 4.30 pm.

Updated on Jun 28, 2025, 1:14 PM IST

The scenic root: A look at the ancient and modern history of the garden

A 17th-century tile panel from Isfahan, Iran, representing the Persian chahar-bagh. (Grant Anderson)

Updated on Jun 28, 2025, 1:11 PM IST

Pant’s on fire: Rudraneil Sengupta on India’s fearless Test batter

Pant during the Test series against England this week. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 28, 2025, 1:10 PM IST

Re-wind: The loud history of the alarm clock

A knocker-upper uses a long pole to wake workers in the Netherlands. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Jun 28, 2025, 1:08 PM IST

Tsampa, puffed ragi, agar agar: Swetha Sivakumar on trying new ingredients

How strange is too strange? That’s a subjective question. Agar-agar, for instance, can be used to make these, errr..., interesting fruit jello cakes. (Pixabay)

Updated on Jun 27, 2025, 4:52 PM IST

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