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Tide and prejudice: In coastal Kerala, a play is a prayer for drowning villages

Updated on Oct 11, 2025 06:08 IST

Sailaja Jayanthan, a daily-wage labourer, holds up a jar from her kitchen as she talks about the damage done to her home.

Beyond our orbit: The strangest planets we have uncovered so far

HD 189733 b sits 64 light years away and looks quite Earth-like. But its blue comes from an atmosphere so hot, it has turned the silica in its air into glass. (NASA / JPL-CALTECH)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 12:41 IST

We scan and we will: A brief history of our efforts to listen for alien life

The planet factory in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy film (2005). Assuming there is intelligent life out there (a reasonable assumption), what might it look like? Where would we sit on the scale of such intelligence? Our search for answers continues.

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 12:34 IST

Mirror worlds: Planets we’ve uncovered that are sci-fi come to life

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 12:31 IST

Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for alien life planet

Stills from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Martian (2015) and Interstellar (2014). A NASA rendering of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068; an image of the Curiosity lander on Mars; and a rendering of the Trappist 1 system. (Images: NASA / CXC / SAO / J Schmidt and N Wolk; NASA / JPL-Caltech)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 12:26 IST

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: An excerpt from Steven Pinker’s book

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 12:23 IST

What I know you know...: Steven Pinker on how common knowledge shapes our world

Photo by Eric Haynes

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 12:47 IST

Insider exclusive: Poonam Saxena on Ba***ds of Bollywood and films about films

Helen and a group of dancers practise their moves on the keys of a giant red typewriter, in Bombay Talkie (1970).

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 10:48 IST

In photos: More snapshots from government offices around the world

In Shibam district, Yemen, Mohammed Hamid Azein works with the water department. (Jan Banning)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 10:46 IST

Paper trail: Take a tour, in photos, of government offices across 5 continents

At the Old Secretariat in Patna. (Jan Banning)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 10:44 IST

Opening stand: Rudraneil Sengupta on the early years of women’s cricket in India

September 30: India's Amanjot Kaur watches the ball after playing a shot during the ongoing ICC Women's World Cup, in a match against Sri Lanka in Guwahati. (AFP)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 10:41 IST

Rice, with a side of weaponry: Swetha Sivakumar on hidden talents of foodgrains

(Images: Adobe Stock)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 10:38 IST

Dark wellness: A new genre of fiction traces grim extremes of self-care

Updated on Oct 3, 2025 13:01 IST

Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care

Luncheon of the Boating Party; 1881, by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Who gets to decide how one's time is spent? That has always been a measure of privilege. (Google Arts & Culture)

Updated on Oct 3, 2025 12:58 IST

Less is core: Are many of us simply doing self-care wrong?

Updated on Oct 3, 2025 12:02 IST

From Fire to Sabar Bonda: Dhrubo Jyoti on the quiet revolution in queer cinema

Bhushaan Manoj and Suraaj Suman are remarkable as the friends-turning-tentative-lovers Anand and Balya.

Updated on Oct 3, 2025 11:25 IST

End Game: An exclusive excerpt from the new novel by Jeffrey Archer

Updated on Oct 3, 2025 11:22 IST

It’s time to let go: Jeffrey Archer on mysteries, regret, writing his last novel

‘I wanted to be a politician. I would have liked to have been an opera singer. I would have liked to captain the England cricket team – and bowl Tendulkar out. But I ended up a storyteller. That’s a God-given gift. I got lucky,’ Archer says.

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 12:28 IST

Scars and stripes: Charles Assisi writes on pain as a blunt teacher

In Long Story Short, Shira’s pain is rooted in her inability to recreate her late mother’s signature dish. Pain, unlike fleeting success, lays bare what can and cannot be controlled.

Updated on Sep 27, 2025 08:47 IST

Ruff draft: Surprising canine-inspired terms in the English language

Dogs once provided so much labour that their exertion is where the phrase ‘dog tired’ comes from. (Above) Bandit and Chilli from the TV series Bluey.

Updated on Sep 27, 2025 08:45 IST

In photos: Glimpses from a British Museum exhibit on Indian idols

The Bimaran casket from Eastern Afghanistan, dated to the 1st century. The Buddha was first represented symbolically as footprints or a tree, and was only later depicted in human form. This gold reliquary may represent the earliest dateable image of the Buddha shown as a man. He stands with his right hand raised in the gesture of reassurance and is flanked by the Hindu deities Indra (right) and Brahma (left). (British Museum)

Updated on Sep 27, 2025 08:19 IST

I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: An excerpt from a new book on advice columns

Updated on Sep 27, 2025 07:41 IST

Asking for a friend: A look at the history of the advice column

The emblem of the Athenian Mercury on a page from the advice section, which began, incidentally, as a public experiment called The Question Project.

Updated on Sep 27, 2025 07:36 IST

Saints and sensibility: An exhibition in London traces evolution of our idols

A depiction of Gaja Lakshmi from 1780, based on an ancient Buddhist carving. (British Museum)

Updated on Sep 27, 2025 07:31 IST

A change of scene: Deepanjana Pal on Ba***ds of Bollywood and Humans in the Loop

In Humans in the Loop, AI is shown to be an empowering agent. That AI is controlled by corpor-ations with questionable agendas is acknowle-dged, but the film focuses more on what AI could mean for those who are invisibilised.

Updated on Sep 26, 2025 12:47 IST

Period drama: Check out punctuation marks lost to time

The Tironian et as used in the 10th-century work Grammaticus by the English grammarian Ælfric. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Sep 26, 2025 12:17 IST

Contempt of quote: The fight to save punctuation

A panel from the comic strip Loose Ends by artist Dave Blazek. (Apostrophe Protection Society)

Updated on Sep 26, 2025 12:16 IST

That’s going to leave a mark: How the world of punctuation is changing

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Sep 26, 2025 11:42 IST

The raw deal: Wknd interviews food safety researcher Sukhvinder Pal Singh

Singh works with farmers, packers and retailers to keep supply chains sanitised and ensure that produce such as rockmelons don’t spread disease. (Photo: Johnathon Davey / Melons Australia)

Updated on Sep 27, 2025 07:29 IST

Feelings of a delicate nature: Simran Mangharam on love’s radical measures

In the 2025 film Materialists, Pedro Pascal’s character spends $200,000 just to get a few inches taller, which he believes would make him more desirable in the dating market.

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 08:39 IST

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