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Captain hook: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on fiery pro boxer Nishant Dev

Dev (above right) floors his opponent, California boxer Alton Wiggins, at his first pro bout in Las Vegas, in January.

Updated on Mar 2, 2025, 2:46 PM IST

Code breakers: Could gene editing ready species for a rapidly changing world?

(HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar. Images: Midjourney, Glenn Ramit, Innovative Genomics Institute, Colossal Biosciences, Pairwise)

Updated on Feb 28, 2025, 4:23 PM IST

A truck driver’s son, an orderly: Graphic novel explores who can be a scientist

Becoming a Scientist, available free online, is aimed at readers aged 12 to 18. Created by Adrian Liston, a professor of pathology, it hopes to inspire young people to consider careers in these fields.

Updated on Feb 28, 2025, 3:48 PM IST

Learning from Silence: Read an exclusive excerpt from Pico Iyer’s new book

Learning from Silence looks back on the author’s time in a monastery in California, soon after a wildfire consumed his childhood home.

Updated on Feb 28, 2025, 3:50 PM IST

Pause and effect: Pico Iyer talks silences and wildfires, in a Wknd interview

“I’ve always had a longing for monastic places,” Iyer says, “in the way some people will see cheesecake or a bottle of whiskey and feel a great pull.” (Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 28, 2025, 7:25 PM IST

Seven Deadly Sins: Read an excerpt from the book by Guy Leschziner

Updated on Feb 25, 2025, 4:35 PM IST

A twist on the taskmaster: Charles Assisi on finding calmness in chores

In Perfect Days (2023), a toilet cleaner finds a meditative rhythm in the mundane.

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 9:23 PM IST

From civets to snow leopards: Check out this field guide to Indian Mammals

The capped langur, which gets its name from dark patch of fur atop its head, is a forest-dwelling primate native to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Myanmar. (Vivek Menon)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 9:07 PM IST

Trees of South India: Read an excerpt about reviving an ancient native forest

A rare of Albizzia lathamii, an endangered species, that the restorers found in a sacred grove near Pandalgudi, a village in Tamil Nadu. (Courtesy: Auroville Botanical Gardens)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 9:15 PM IST

Enlightened Leadership: Read an exclusive excerpt from Bhutan PM's book

Enlightened Leadership: Read an exclusive excerpt from a book by Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay

Updated on Feb 22, 2025, 4:48 PM IST

Birth rites: How cultures across the world pick a name for newborns

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 9:21 PM IST

Glowing with possibilities: Swetha Sivakumar decodes phosphorus

Phosphorus, in Greek, means ‘bringer of light’. Large stores of it lie trapped in Earth’s mantle, and have leaked onto the surface via volcanic activity, particularly in the early years, as the planet cooled. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 9:21 PM IST

Vice in our veins: The science behind the sins that make us human

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Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 8:59 PM IST

Shoot it, shrink it, stream it: Step into the world of micro-dramas

(Clockwise from top) Stills from Love Potion, I Wish It Were You, Found A Homeless Billionaire Husband for Christmas and Forbidden Desires: Alpha’s Love.

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 8:53 PM IST

Name, place, animals and trees: A guide to the new field guides of India

1. A wandering wisp damselfly and a paddyfield parasol dragonfly found in north-west India. 2.The Tickell’s blue flycatcher has been spotted in its breeding season in Delhi. 3. The Pila maura or Assam apple snail, found only in the north-east India. 4. The Indian Gaur, one of three species of massive wild cattle found in India. 5. The Hugonia mystax or climbing wax straggler found in the forests of southern India. 6. The Kashmir flycatcher, a winter migrant to South India. 7. An illustration of the wine glass or pencil shaving mushroom, found in Bengaluru. 8. The Khaire’s black shieldtail, a species of burrowing snake endemic to India. 9. The rare galaxy frog found in pockets of the Western Ghats. (Dheerendra Singh, Adobe Stock, Aravind NA, Vivek Menon, Auroville Botanical Gardens, David Raju, Survya Ramachandran, Nuvedo)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 9:48 PM IST

Inclined to greatness: A Wknd chat with Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay

Now in his second stint as PM of Bhutan, Tobgay, 59, explores peace, wisdom, stability, happiness, sustainability and service as ideas rooted in Bhutanese culture in his upcoming book, Enlightened Leadership. (Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025, 9:12 PM IST

Funk dial: Sanjoy Narayan on the return of the ’70s band Cymande

A scene from the 2022 documentary, Getting It Back.

Updated on Feb 22, 2025, 4:43 PM IST

Men who pause: Deepanjana Pal on heroic masculinity on screen

In Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, starring Daniel Craig as Lee, the men are shatter-patterns of loneliness. The heartbroken and heartbreaking heroes are a break from the alpha males who have taken over Indian popular cinema.

Updated on Feb 22, 2025, 4:42 PM IST

A fluid legacy: Poonam Saxena on one of India’s earliest queer novels

A still from Badnam Basti.

Updated on Feb 15, 2025, 11:04 PM IST

All the sketchy details: Children’s books on lives of India’s leading artists

An illustration from Breaking Moulds: Meera Mukherjee. (Image courtesy Shivam Choudhary / Art1st and KNMA)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025, 10:58 PM IST

Can we put the artistry back in football, asks Rudraneil Sengupta

Ronaldinho (second from left) of Brazil dribbles past Turkey players at the 2003 FIFA Confedera-tions Cup in France. (Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025, 10:56 PM IST

Breaking Moulds: Read an excerpt from a book on sculptor Meera Mukherjee

(Image courtesy Shivam Choudhary / Art1st and KNMA)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025, 11:02 PM IST

The Secret World of Mehlli Gobhai: Read an exclusive excerpt

(Image courtesy Kripa B / Pratham Books)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025, 11:00 PM IST

Lore, legend and just so many syllables: OED is in the midst of a revamp

Updated on Feb 14, 2025, 7:00 PM IST

What does it take to weave a personal brand?: An essay by Charles Assisi

Updated on Feb 14, 2025, 6:58 PM IST

Here, there, everywhere: Gandhi in your world

The Gandhi memorial in Washington DC. (Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 14, 2025, 6:51 PM IST

What makes Mahatma Gandhi such an abiding brand?: An essay by Ambi Parameswaran

Updated on Feb 14, 2025, 6:49 PM IST

Industrial relations and labour welfare: An essay by VV Giri, from HT's archives

Workers at a coal mine. ‘Facilities such as creches and canteens are crucial for workers,’ writes Giri. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jan 25, 2025, 12:39 AM IST

Are women freer in free India?: An essay by Begum Hamid Ali from the HT archives

At a protest in Madras in 1945. Women emerged from their homes in large numbers to participate in the Swadeshi movement, which acted as a turning point in this respect, in India. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Jan 25, 2025, 12:20 AM IST

The charm of Gandhiji: An essay by Arthur Moore, from the HT archives

Gandhi at Noakhali (then in East Pakistan, now in Bangladesh) during the Partition riots. He would be assassinated months later, on January 30, 1948. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jan 25, 2025, 12:18 AM IST

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