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The 30-track album: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Jeff Tweedy

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 09:05 IST

In an era of playlist culture and shortened attention spans, Jeff Tweedy’s latest 30-track album feels almost anachronistic. (Wikimedia)

Race to the Finnish: Sanjoy Narayan tries familiar flavours at Ravintola Indus

The Delhi papri chaat is cleverly served in a shell made of the papri, each piece designed to be popped whole into the mouth.

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 08:09 IST

Unsung heroes: One room, one song and a bunch of strangers

Musician and vocal coach Medha Sahi leads The Strangers’ Choir held in Mumbai on September 14. (Satish Bate/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Sep 19, 2025 11:48 IST

What fuels AI? Follow the lifecycle of a machine-learning model

Through its lifecycle, as the AI model adapts by “learning” from new data and feedback, it requires additional computation and storage, all of which comes at an energy cost (.)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 09:01 IST

Sound Bites: Swetha Sivakumar on the history of refrigeration

According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), just under 38% of Indian households, for instance, owned a refrigerator as of 2019-21. (.)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 09:04 IST

Look past the pearl earring: Into the world of Vermeer’s love letters

Mistress and Maid (1664-1667) (The Frick Collection, New York/Joseph Coscia Jr.)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 08:35 IST

Out and bout: Rudraneil Sengupta on India’s rising stars in women’s boxing

If Jaismine Lamboria, 24, continues to improve and acquire experience as she has been doing, she is a superb potential prospect at the Olympics. (BFI)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 09:02 IST

Say less, go small: How to slash AI’s footprint

If we don’t slow down, we could end up, like Wall-E (2008), in a wasteland of our making. (.)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 08:23 IST

Behind every click, a cloudburst: A chat with author Gerry McGovern

An email is never just that. When you send an email, it doesn’t just exist in one place, says McGovern. It may be copied 10 or 15 times across servers, and then it sits in the recipient’s inbox indefinitely. And that consumes energy and water, and has a carbon footprint.

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 08:25 IST

Surge pricing: Decoding the rising cost of our digital lives

. (HT IMAGING: PUNEET KUMAR VIA CHATGPT)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 08:21 IST

Magic gone wild: Filmmaker Raam Reddy on his film Jugnuma

“I wanted to tell a story that was driven by poetic suspense,” says Raam Reddy, 36 about his latest feature, Jugnuma, that premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. (.)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 08:58 IST

Can we, should we, slay the‘Good morning’ message?: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

How much of it can one take? Above, After the Ball, 1899; by Ramon Casas. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Sep 13, 2025 12:00 IST

Across the Jordan: K Narayanan on his love affair with the Wheel of Time books

Updated on Sep 13, 2025 11:58 IST

Re-routed: See how the world’s great migrations are changing

A herd of wildebeest in the Masai Mara, Kenya. This animal’s migrations, arguably among the world’s most dramatic, have been disrupted by roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines, housing, and fences to protect agriculture and livestock. The result: only three populations follow their traditional migration routes. This, in turn, has led to wildfires, altered landscapes and, as prey dwindles for major predators, even a higher incidence of giraffe-calf death. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Sep 13, 2025 11:56 IST

Butterflies, birds, fish: How the world’s great migrations are dwindling

Wildebeest in the Masai Mara, Kenya. This population is one of only three that still follow their original great migration routes. Many wildebeest populations no longer migrate at all. (Photo by TR Shankar Raman)

Updated on Sep 13, 2025 11:55 IST

Safe words: Meet teen researching Gen Alpha slang, with an eye on online safety

(HT illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Sep 13, 2025 16:49 IST

Masters of sound and silence: Sanjoy Narayana writes on the band Mogwai

Cover art for the band’s new album, The Bad Fire.

Updated on Sep 12, 2025 10:05 IST

On the horizon: Deepanjana Pal on India’s Venice winner Songs of Forgotten Trees

Songs of Forgotten Trees has some clumsy edges, but Roy is in her element as she traces the delicate bond between Thooya (Naaz Shaikh), an aspiring actress, and Shweta (Sumi Baghel), who works at a call centre.

Updated on Sep 12, 2025 10:11 IST

‘We need to rethink how we govern our oceans’

Ranganathan’s interdisciplinary approach — which takes into account international law as well as history, political economy, indigenous community efforts, and lessons learnt from the ills of colonialism — recently won her the prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, endowed with €1.5 million. (Maurice Weiss / Ostkreuz)

Updated on Sep 12, 2025 10:24 IST

A heated argument: Swetha Sivakumar writes on induction cooktops

They can be noisy, and they only work with certain grades of metal, but induction cooktops have come a long way. They don't even cost much more than a gas range today. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 6, 2025 06:39 IST

Novel journeys: Poonam Saxena on the lost joys of the long-distance train ride

Happy daze: Sharmila Tagore reads, while others look out at the passing countryside, during the train ride through the hills in Aradhana (1969).

Updated on Sep 6, 2025 06:43 IST

Bark to the beginning: Tracing spices through time

A wall painting from the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Spices were used in burial rites. Replicas were also found in this and other Ancient Egyptian tombs. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Sep 6, 2025 06:38 IST

Bubble path: Cola as medicine? The surprising history of our snacks

Pemberton’s French Wine Coca, which became Coca-Cola, was launched c. 1885 and pitched as a cure for ailments ranging from ‘nerve trouble’ and dyspepsia to coughs and constipation. As regulations were tightened, Coca-Cola, among other brands, dropped these claims.

Updated on Sep 6, 2025 06:22 IST

Wood you believe it?: The bloodied, grisly story of cinnamon

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via ChatGPT)

Updated on Sep 6, 2025 06:43 IST

Running for their lives: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on the athletes of Gaza

After competitive cyclist Alaa al-Dali (above left) was shot, he formed a paracycling team in 2020 called Gaza Sunbirds, made up of other amputees, all shot by Israeli forces. Al-Dali has since fled to Europe. He doesn’t know how many of his group survive. (@thisisaldali / Instagram)

Updated on Sep 5, 2025 08:42 IST

Say Gaa: Check out Garima Arora’s recipe for frozen chicken liver on toast

Spicy frozen chicken liver on toast with fresh summer fruits. (Photo via Lah)

Updated on Sep 5, 2025 15:50 IST

Turning up the eat: Vir Sanghvi interviews restaurateur Garima Arora of Banng

(Photo via Lah)

Updated on Sep 5, 2025 07:23 IST

What’s your threshold?: Charles Assisi writes on shifting social norms

A still from the videogame Lords of the Fallen: My cultural no-no is shoes in the home. I have no sword, sadly, but crankiness is my weapon in the battle of indoor vs outdoor.

Updated on Aug 30, 2025 10:32 IST

Points of hue: Adam Jacot de Boinod on tints and tones across languages

What colour do you see first? (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 30, 2025 10:30 IST

Agents of shield: What it takes to protect your smartphone

What kind of protection would a system like Jarvis, from the Iron Man films, need? Can a truly smart system simply guard itself? These are questions AI may soon help answer.

Updated on Aug 30, 2025 10:27 IST

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