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Game over?: Rudraneil Sengupta on the tragic decline of football in India

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 11:38 IST

The way we were: Baichung Bhutia scores a third goal for East Bengal against Mohammedan Sporting in a National Football League (NFL) match at the Salt Lake stadium in 2004. (HT Archives)

Word for word: See where carbon paper came from, and how it lives on

The cyclostyle machine was invented in the 1880s; it forced ink through a stencil to make copies. Carbon paper predates it by quite a bit. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 11:18 IST

Pasta, candy bars, soy: How war has shaped some of our favourite foods

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 14, 2025 14:47 IST

A moving feast: Recipes from Iraq, Syria, New Mexico

Updated on Nov 14, 2025 13:08 IST

Change of hearth: Three new books explore the food of refugees and the displaced

(HT imaging: Puneet Kumar; Images: Wikimedia, Michael Shaikh, Julia Gartland, Alex Lau with Jason LeCras)

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 12:04 IST

An Irish spell: Sanjoy Narayan on the stunning music of House of Guinness

The Netflix period drama chronicles the power struggle within Ireland’s most famous brewing dynasty, in the wake of the death of the head of the family, Benjamin Guinness, in 1868.

Updated on Nov 14, 2025 11:25 IST

From college classes to Paris Fashion Week: Self-taught designer Kartik Kumra

Kumra in embroidered pants from Kartik Research’s Fauji collection, and a coat designed by his idol, the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto. (Abhishek Khedekar)

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 07:07 IST

When do I get my clean chit?: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

Johnny Bravo in the house?: Come on, we’re not all this guy.

Updated on Nov 8, 2025 14:06 IST

Noise to let the light back in: Sanjoy Narayan writes on heavy metal

Cover art for the albums Hidden History of the Human Race (2019) by Blood Incantation.

Updated on Nov 8, 2025 14:00 IST

Windshields, holograms: What does the future hold for the TV set?

What else can a TV screen be? A still from The Truman Show (1998).

Updated on Nov 8, 2025 13:50 IST

The bug stops here?: Where we are in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

(HT imaging via Google Gemini)

Updated on Nov 8, 2025 13:41 IST

The shift key: How India is learning to cope with climate displacement

A village inundated following heavy rains in Golaghat, Assam, in September 2025. (PTI)

Updated on Nov 8, 2025 13:39 IST

Where do we go from here?: See how humans are moving, amid the climate crisis

A wildfire in Palaia Fokaia, south of Athens in Greece in August 2025. (AFP)

Updated on Nov 8, 2025 13:32 IST

Seeing double: Check out re-imagined versions of classics from within the Louvre

In his collage, Louvre Remix, the Beninese sculptor Georges Adeagbo places Eugene Delacroix’s famous painting of Liberty striding through a battlefield beside Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman dressed in the colours of the French flag – a seeming reminder that while the French standard (held aloft in the Liberty painting) signals freedom to those at home, it has meant very different things when it has travelled. (Mennour Archives, Paris)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 14:27 IST

Ctrl + See: Masterpieces from within the Louvre are getting a makeover

Rembrandt’s Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654) is re-imagined, by the Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming, as a portrait of the maid. (Wikimedia; Clerin-Morin, ADAGP, Paris)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 14:26 IST

Lore and order: Deepanjana Pal on the new Mahabharat series, and Lokah Chapter 1

Kalyani Priyadarshan as the superhero Chandra in Lokah Chapter 1.

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 09:23 IST

Rakesfall: Read an excerpt from the winner of the Ursula K Le Guin Prize

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 08:08 IST

The eras tour: A Wknd chat with Vajra Chandrasekera, author of Rakesfall

(Photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe)

Updated on Nov 8, 2025 14:11 IST

Smooth criminal: Poonam Saxena on the charm of Ajit, the unusual villain

You likely know the lines, even if you don’t know the name. “Mona Darling.” “Lily, don’t be silly.” Those were both Ajit.

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 11:38 IST

‘Our son was our rockstar. This is how we remember him’

The statue of Swarnab Bagchi surrounded by visitors, at the ‘memory museum’ built by his parents, Sthita and Manab Bagchi (extreme right).

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 07:50 IST

A long goodbye: Life-sized silicone statues are helping families in India mourn

Silicone sculptures of Samit Dutta’s parents, Arun and Hena Dutta, in Kolkata.

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 11:37 IST

Excerpts from The Curious Zoo…: Meet the deadly spider, a bug that sprays pee

Each story is translated into at least one more language, so some have versions in Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Telugu, Bangla, Hindi, Spanish or Thai. Above, a story on the springing worm in Hindi, in Japanese and in English. (Images; Bhamla Lab)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 13:33 IST

On the sunny side of the street: Swetha Sivakumar decodes SPF

Woman with a Parasol (1875) by the French impressionist Claude Monet. For most of settled history, the rich only sporadically spent time outdoors. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 11:30 IST

The Curious Zoo...: A comic uses science to cast bugs and spiders as superstars

A tale in The Curious Zoo of Extraordinary Organisms explains the gliding of the rapid ripple bug. (Image: Bhamla Lab)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 11:29 IST

Non-price inflation: When numbers lose all meaning

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 12:20 IST

Where is all your money going?: Kashyap Kompella on personal inflation

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 14:52 IST

‘We need to move fast’: As Vivek Menon makes history at IUCN, an interview

With a black-banded trinket snake in Meghalaya. (Subhamoy Bhattacharjee)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 09:05 IST

He ran for peace, and Palestine. His journey has ended

Maraheel, the first Palestinian athlete to compete at the Olympics (in 1996), was born into a Bedouin family. He died in a Gaza refugee camp last year, from an untreated kidney ailment, aged 61.

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 08:32 IST

Would he be proud of me today? Charles Assisi reflects on his younger self

Look again: A still from the videogame Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (2025). Set across two timelines, it follows a group of young women as they revisit their adolescence.

Updated on Oct 25, 2025 08:32 IST

That’s what they all say...: How idioms change around the world

‘Out of the frying pan...’ in Indonesian becomes ‘out of the tiger’s mouth, and into the crocodile’s’. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 25, 2025 08:30 IST

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