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The wrong side of the spotlight: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Studio

Seth Rogen seems like an unlikely choice at first, for the role of a studio head. In minutes, though, it is hard to imagine anyone else playing the part.

Updated on Apr 11, 2025, 7:34 PM IST

Tooning in: Avatars are replacing sportstars on tennis courts, football pitches

The NFL streamed a Simpsons-themed Dallas Cowboys vs Cincinnati Bengals game, in December. (ESPN)

Updated on Apr 11, 2025, 7:00 PM IST

The best seats in the world: A look at seven mega-stadiums now being built

In a nod to Morocco’s rich culture and nomadic past, the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca is being built to resemble a massive tent. (Oualalou + Choi)

Updated on Apr 11, 2025, 5:39 PM IST

Capital: Read an excerpt from the award-winning book by Rana Dasgupta

Updated on Apr 11, 2025, 4:37 PM IST

The state we’re in: Rana Dasgupta on awards, AI, the decline of the nation-state

(Courtesy Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025, 11:20 PM IST

The thing about regret...: Simran Mangharam writes on sacrifice and love

A young rabbi, and an agnostic woman who hosts a podcast about intimacy, fall in love, in the series Nobody Wants This (2024). There is pain, conflict, but humour and hope too.

Updated on Apr 5, 2025, 2:56 PM IST

In photos: Check out more exhibits from the Museum of Rejects

Visual artist and zine maker Saloni Mahajan says she just couldn’t understand why she painted this piece. Feeling Scene has nonetheless been years in the making. Work on it began during the pandemic. “Over the years, elements kept adding themselves. Four years later, the piece revealed its meaning: the longing to be seen,” Mahajan writes in her concept note. (Courtesy Gaysi Family)

Updated on Apr 5, 2025, 2:54 PM IST

Saved as: Check out an exhibition celebrating rejected ideas, incomplete drafts

Stuti Jain’s sculpture Study in Liminality, which exploded in a kiln, missed the exhibition too, but sold at another event.

Updated on Apr 5, 2025, 2:29 PM IST

The pace maker: Indian runner Gulveer Singh is breaking new ground

If Gulveer Singh can shave a few seconds more off his time, he could truly become one of the global elite. (Courtesy SAI / X)

Updated on Apr 5, 2025, 2:25 PM IST

It takes time, patience: Meet India’s first winner of a Ramsar wetlands award

Her first inspiration, Vencatesan says, was her father Mayur Narasimhan. He worked as a salesperson, lived close to nature. His idea of success was to be useful to society. His idea of society encompassed animals and trees, rivers and lakes. (Ariprasath / Care Earth Trust)

Updated on Apr 5, 2025, 2:23 PM IST

Maybe AI will create a style of its own: Wknd interviews composer Steve Barakatt

(APV Photo)

Updated on Apr 5, 2025, 6:03 PM IST

The quantum realm in pop culture: Discworld, multiverses, and a Heart of Gold

Julian Voss-Andreae’s Quantum Man (2011) is a sculpture of a human figure that appears solid from one angle but dissolves into abstract forms from another, symbolising the wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 4, 2025, 6:32 PM IST

The quantum in our everyday: How this science gave us smartphones, GPS and more

Sadly, we don’t have the Jetsons’ Foodarackacycle yet.

Updated on Apr 4, 2025, 6:29 PM IST

The quantum leap: How a weird reality at subatomic scale has changed our world

Heisenberg’s model showed that, at subatomic levels, ‘a’ multiplied by ‘b’ wasn’t the same as ‘b’ multiplied by ‘a’. and this wasn’t the only rule being broken. (Photo Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Apr 4, 2025, 6:22 PM IST

Notes from a graveyard shift: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

A man gets a second chance at life, in the stellar Disney-Pixar film Soul (2020). He commits to living it fully.

Updated on Mar 29, 2025, 3:32 PM IST

Salty language: Adam Jacot de Boinod dives into terms given to us by the sea

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025, 3:31 PM IST

Bad, worse, better? How shifting baseline syndrome dims our outrage

An Antarctic ice shelf scored with cracks, as seen in 2016. (NASA)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025, 3:29 PM IST

Wrap album: Swetha Sivakumar digs into the history of food liners

Wax paper keeps all humidity out so effectively, it is still used to wrap sandwiches and cheese. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025, 3:27 PM IST

A Beta world: A peek into the future of the next generation

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025, 3:26 PM IST

Can India have its Adolescence? Deepanjana Pal writes on films that fill a void

A still from Pallavi Paul’s How Love Moves. The film is showing at Mumbai’s Project 88 gallery, until April 26.

Updated on Mar 28, 2025, 3:59 PM IST

Time and punishment: Film traces activist Umar Khalid’s years without bail

The poster for Lalit Vachani’s film, Prisoner No. 626710 is Present.

Updated on Mar 28, 2025, 3:57 PM IST

Fleshy, flame-born, voracious: The world’s strangest flowers

The carnivorous California pitcher. Read on to see how it traps its prey. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025, 3:43 PM IST

Stalk exchange: Flowers are being turned into climate warriors, space snacks

Researcher Eleni Stavrinidou works on turning a rose into an electricity conductor. (Thor Balkhed / Linköping University)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025, 3:39 PM IST

Petal to the metal: Inside the rise of India’s flower industry

Updated on Mar 29, 2025, 2:25 PM IST

A mouthful of sky: Vir Sanghvi interviews chef Gaggan Anand

(HT Archives)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025, 3:25 PM IST

Petal pushers: Poonam Saxena writes on Spring

At Delhi’s Sunder Nursery. In spring, the city is like a movie set just waiting for someone to yell ‘Action!. (HT Archives)

Updated on Mar 22, 2025, 10:24 PM IST

Ancient billboard: Tiny tales emerge from Kashmiri epigraphs

The epigraph at the 600-year-old Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. (Wikimedia Commons, Hakim Sameer Hamdani, Tabish Haider / Barakat Trust)

Updated on Mar 22, 2025, 10:21 PM IST

Sprig break: Meet the urban farmer selling ‘weeds’, and ancient recipes for them

White amaranthus at Kumar’s farm.

Updated on Mar 22, 2025, 10:17 PM IST

Cricket has a new superhero: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on Glenn Phillips

Phillips in action, during the recent Champions Trophy match against India. (ANI)

Updated on Mar 22, 2025, 10:13 PM IST

Grizzly midlife reflections: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the band Animal Collective

Updated on Mar 22, 2025, 9:02 PM IST

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