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Hero worship gone wrong: Deepanjana Pal writes on Pushpa 2

Allu Arjun in Pushpa 2. Armed with a chip on his shoulder and delusions of victimhood, the risen underdog rages his way through the extended runtime of 200 minutes.

Updated on Dec 21, 2024, 7:06 PM IST

A skyfall playlist: The newest vaporwave music is climate-themed

A still from the Dreamweather track Hazardous Weather Alert. Weather channels once provided a sense of comfort and familiarity in an unfamiliar place, but that is changing, the artiste has said.

Updated on Dec 23, 2024, 2:15 PM IST

Forever and ever?: A timeline of how microplastics got everywhere

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Updated on Dec 21, 2024, 7:05 PM IST

Rain check: How microplastics can alter climate

In 2023, microplastics were found in the clouds over Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024, 5:06 PM IST

Hoard of small things: How you can combat the microplastics menace

Synthetic fibres are a major source of microplastics. A switch to natural fabrics will help. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 23, 2024, 2:15 PM IST

‘We’re using plastic wrong’: Meet the man who coined the term microplastics

(Photo courtesy University of Plymouth)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024, 7:05 PM IST

Paying with plastic: How microplastics are changing our world

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Updated on Dec 21, 2024, 11:31 PM IST

Trail mix: Check out photographs by the award-winning Steve Winter

A leopard walks through a residential neighbourhood in India. Leopard-human conflict has been on the rise here, as cities and towns encroach into dwindling forests. (Photo: Steve Winter / Big Cat Voices)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024, 7:04 PM IST

Wild things: Wknd interviews award-winning conservation storytellers

It can take very little to make a difference, Winter and Guynup say. (Photo courtesy Big Cat Voices)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024, 7:01 PM IST

Spark notes: Simran Mangharam, on what keeps a marriage going

Everything okay at home?: Portrait of a Married Couple; 1512, by the German artist Ulrich Apt the Elder. (Image via Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024, 4:02 PM IST

On death roe: Swetha Sivakumar on the cruelty of caviar

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Updated on Dec 14, 2024, 4:00 PM IST

Treble in the village: See what sets the Big Bang! Festival of Love apart

Japanese trombonist Chie Nishikori at the festival. (Image:Nilotpal Kalita)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024, 4:39 PM IST

Cutting etch: Tracing India’s most ancient rock art, and the efforts to save it

A petroglyph in Ladakh depicting a mask-like symbol. (Image courtesy Ahtushi Deshpande / Speaking Stones : Rock Art of Ladakh)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024, 3:59 PM IST

The curious case of Kylian Mbappe

If fans are perplexed, it’s hard to imagine how he must feel. (Getty Images)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024, 3:58 PM IST

Anatomy of fear: Sukanya Datta’s essential body horror watchlist

David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986) is considered a genre-defining classic. Watch it to see Jeff Goldblum lose his nails, vomit corrosive enzymes, and slowly turn into an insect-human hybrid. The film earned Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis an Oscar for makeup and prosthetics.

Updated on Dec 13, 2024, 8:36 PM IST

Blood, sweat and fears: Inside the rise of body horror

A still from Love Lies Bleeding (2024).

Updated on Dec 13, 2024, 8:42 PM IST

70 years, 38 movies, 1 monstar: A Godzilla timeline

Stills from Godzilla (1998), the first Hollywood production in the franchise; and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).

Updated on Dec 13, 2024, 8:02 PM IST

Beauty in the beast: A look at the tech behind the terror, as Godzilla turns 70

A still from Godzilla 2000: Millennium, released in 1999.

Updated on Dec 13, 2024, 8:00 PM IST

A roaring legacy: Wknd pokes at Godzilla, in his 70th year

Stills from the original Gojira (1954) and Godzilla Minus One (2023).

Updated on Dec 13, 2024, 8:43 PM IST

Season’s eatings: A Wknd interview with the stellar chef Mythrayie Iyer

Updated on Dec 13, 2024, 1:24 PM IST

Pause and effect: Charles Assisi spent a week being totally honest

Is the pause working yet?: Jim Carrey as a lawyer who can’t fib at all, for a day, in Liar Liar (1997).

Updated on Dec 7, 2024, 3:46 PM IST

Butter together: Swetha Sivakumar writes on nut-based spreads

Nutella, a hazelnut-based spread, was inspired by an ancient Italian recipe - and turned the Ferrero family into magnates of the confectionary world. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Dec 7, 2024, 3:39 PM IST

‘Lung’ tests for the Amazon: A new study will measure carbon intake per plant

The Amazon rainforest was one of the world’s largest carbon absorbers. It still releases 20 billion tonnes of water into the atmosphere a day, playing a crucial role in weather, carbon and water cycles. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Dec 7, 2024, 3:43 PM IST

Split screen: Deepanjana Pal writes on the reality of indie films

Chhaya Kadam and Kani Kusruti in All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia’s poetic ode to and lament for Mumbai.

Updated on Dec 7, 2024, 4:18 PM IST

Long-playing records: 5 albums that got Sanjoy Narayan started

Jethro Tull’s Aqualung blended acoustic and hard rock exquisitely and with complexity.

Published on Dec 6, 2024, 8:08 PM IST

Out of the shadows: See more of the Modernist Prafulla Dahanukar’s work

This work is part of a series of ink drawings and watercolours etched in a private sketchbook dating to 1961-62. They have never been exhibited before, but will be part of the retrospective in Mumbai. The series reveals a poignant range of early experiments with linear and calligraphic abstraction. (Image courtesy the Dahanukar family collection)

Updated on Dec 7, 2024, 3:48 PM IST

From the fringes to the frame: Why you haven’t heard of Prafulla Dahanukar

An untitled landscape by Dahanukar (1934-2014). A retrospective in Mumbai seeks to highlight the artist’s under-acknowledged body of work. (Images courtesy the Dahanukar family collection)

Published on Dec 6, 2024, 7:57 PM IST

Prize sensitive: Is it time for a change in how the Nobels are awarded?

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Updated on Dec 6, 2024, 7:19 PM IST

The legend lives on: The essential Raj Kapoor watchlist

Did you know: Awaara, released in Russia in 1954 (three years after its India release), was the year’s biggest hit in that country.

Updated on Dec 6, 2024, 7:11 PM IST

The wonder years: A tribute to the legendary Raj Kapoor, in his centenary year

Read on to see how Raj Kapoor’s films lit up screens in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean; how snatches are reappearing in films made today. (HT Archives)

Published on Dec 6, 2024, 6:55 PM IST

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