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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

The film at crossroads: An essay by Balraj Sahni, from the HT archives

Sahni in the 1953 Bimal Roy classic, Do Bigha Zamin. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jan 25, 2025, 12:15 AM IST

Constructive pacifism: An essay by C Rajagopalachari, from the HT archives

The atomic bomb sends a mushroom cloud out over Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jan 25, 2025, 12:10 AM IST

Intellect and cultural renaissance: An essay by Humayun Kabir, from HT archives

At a National Cadet Corps (NCC) camp in 1976. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jan 24, 2025, 3:13 PM IST

Building up India’s health: A 1951 essay by Amrit Kaur, from the HT archives

At a Delhi hospital in 1988. ’Even in the cities the facilities afforded to the poor were not such as to inspire confidence in the patient or cater adequately to the general need,’ Amrit Kaur writes. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jan 24, 2025, 3:11 PM IST

Our two main problems: An essay by Lal Bahadur Shastri, from the HT archives

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at a refugee camp in Srinagar in 1948. ‘Khadi should be given the utmost encouragement and the people encouraged to use it even if it is somewhat costly. Government should also patronise it fully,’ Shastri writes. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jan 25, 2025, 12:13 AM IST

Take it from the top: R Sukumar writes on the Republic @75

(Image created with Adobe Firefly; HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

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

Getting the words out: The importance of saying ‘I love you’

A painting of Laila and Majnu. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 7:12 PM IST

Early rock formations: Sanjoy Narayan picks his favourite music podcasts

What connects The Byrds, The Beatles, Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane? Andrew Hickey has answers, in A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs.

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 7:10 PM IST

Time for some palm readings: Swetha Sivakumar on the coconut tree

At Khao Sok National Park, Thailand. At full maturity, the coconut kernel is 50% water, 33% oil, some protein and carbs. But, also trapped within, is air. Because the fruit needs to be able to float.

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 7:06 PM IST

Heads or tales?: A new photo project focuses on the stray dogs of Goa

Photographer Rohit Chawla has had exhibitions around the world, featuring powerful art and award-winning projects, but this one is closest to his heart, he says. (Rohit Chawla / Rain Dogs)

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 6:46 PM IST

Why Ahmedabad?: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on India’s Olympic bid

At the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 6:41 PM IST

Faithful Unto Death: An exclusive excerpt from a book on unusual pet memorials

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 6:40 PM IST

Somewhere Rover the rainbow : Unusual memorials for pets around the world

The grave of Jonny, a snail that lived for over a year in a man’s backyard in Los Angeles. (Paul Koudounaris)

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 6:38 PM IST

Ladakh’s Climate Cup aims to serve as an alarm bell, and an example

Six teams participated in the second edition of the Climate Cup, in Ladakh last year.

Updated on Jan 17, 2025, 8:18 PM IST

Sear factor: How heat impacts an athlete

‘I was shivering. Nothing made sense. It felt like my body was shutting down... I’m now trying to become more aware of my body’s signals and recognise when to stop,’ says Indian triathlete Pragnya Mohan.

Updated on Jan 17, 2025, 8:16 PM IST

Collapsing on the track made me want to speak up, says Olympian Rhydian Cowley

Rhydian Cowley, 34. (Photo: Athletics Australia)

Updated on Jan 17, 2025, 8:13 PM IST

Climate crisis and sport: We’re climbing in T-shirts, says Himalayan mountaineer

Skalzang Rigzin, 43.

Updated on Jan 17, 2025, 8:01 PM IST

Fever pitch: See how the climate crisis is changing the world of sport

(Clockwise from above) Swiss triathlete Max Studer collapses at the Tokyo Games. Tennis’s Novak Djokovic tries to cool off during the 2018 US Open. Danish cyclist Christopher Juul Jensen at the 2022 Tour de France; roads had to be hosed down to keep them from melting. Canadian runner Berhanu Degefa at the midnight marathon in Doha, in 2019. (Photos: Getty Images, Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 17, 2025, 8:12 PM IST

My Head for a Tree: Read an excerpt from Martin Goodman’s book on the Bishnoi

Updated on Jan 17, 2025, 7:10 PM IST

My Head for a Tree: Author Martin Goodman discusses his new book on the Bishnoi

Martin Goodman with an injured chinkara (Indian gazelle) fawn at the Khejarli animal sanctuary. (Ram Niwas Budhnagar Bishnoi)

Updated on Jan 18, 2025, 1:37 PM IST

Know reservations: Charles Assisi writes on dogma, religion and being an atheist

‘I’d rather be an atheist who occasionally marvels at stained-glass windows and soaring choir music than someone locked in a fortress of pride masquerading as absolutes.’ (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jan 11, 2025, 2:04 PM IST

Hell of a time: Let a new book take you to imagined versions of the afterlife

A still from the series Upload.

Updated on Jan 11, 2025, 2:02 PM IST

All we imagine as perfect: Deepanjana Pal takes a second look at AWIAL

Parvaty (played so masterfully by Chhaya Kadam) ought to have been a protagonist. Instead, she exists only to help flesh out the main character (Kani Kusruti’s Prabha).

Updated on Jan 11, 2025, 1:59 PM IST

Check out more artefacts from the Amsterdam exhibit of ancient Asian bronzes

At the exhibition. (Erik and Petra Hesmerg / Rijksmuseum)

Updated on Jan 11, 2025, 1:07 PM IST

Secrets and alloys:In Amsterdam hidden tales tumble out of ancient Asian bronzes

The 15th-century Tibetan statuette of a three-headed deity. (Erik and Petra Hesmerg via Rijksmuseum)

Updated on Jan 12, 2025, 12:58 PM IST

Ads, dresses, spindly elephants: More from the Dali universe

The iconic lobster dress created in collaboration with fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.

Updated on Jan 10, 2025, 6:26 PM IST

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