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Wolf pack: 80 years since the death of Hitler, why does his legacy endure?

Updated on Aug 30, 2025 10:18 IST

Adolf Hitler at a meeting of the Hitler Youth, in 1938. (Above right) The first Nazi concentration camps were built for political prisoners, in 1933. (Getty Images)

Sunken submarines, an early seed bank: Books, documentaries set amid World War 2

A still from the National Geographic documentary Drain The Oceans: Secrets of World War II.

Updated on Aug 30, 2025 09:54 IST

80 years since World War 2, flashbacks take the form of games, books, podcasts

A still from Wolfenstein: The New Order, a game set in an alternative future in which the Nazis won.

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 13:06 IST

Bombs away: Kashyap Kompella writes on the future of war

(HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 13:00 IST

No guts, no glory: Deepanjana Pal writes on the film War 2

The fights are unimaginative, the twists are tired.

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 12:02 IST

Shot sighted: How Chattisgarh’s Tulsi village got its ‘YouTube’ studio

The Hamaar Flix studio in Tulsi. (Rahul Verma, Deepak Verma (Mandal))

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 12:59 IST

A swell guy: Wknd interviews India’s champion surfer, Ramesh Budihal

(Photo courtesy Ramesh Budihal)

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 11:23 IST

Heart-tugging: Simran Mangharam on the pushes and pulls of early love

Oh, must you meet those annoying friends: Frederic William Burton’s Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864). (National Gallery of Ireland)

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 11:29 IST

Get the drift?: A look at the supercontinents of the future

(HT Imaging)

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 11:26 IST

Here we go a grain: Swetha Sivakumar on the origins and superpowers of quinoa

Once associated with ‘backwardness’, quinoa has only recently been rebranded as ‘proud Inca food’ in the Western world.

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 11:04 IST

If Kohli can love ‘strays’, so can you: The Sporting Life by Rudraneil Sengupta

Virat Kohli and an indie puppy in promotional material posted by Royal Challengers Bengaluru, in collaboration with Muthoot Fincorp. Kohli also runs a foundation for indies in Mumbai.

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 11:22 IST

In photos: See how William Morris’s designs still permeate our world

Wallpaper designed by William Morris. (William Morris Gallery)

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 10:41 IST

Speaking in Morris code: Where the designs on our phone covers, mugs came from

Strawberry Thief, one of Morris’s most popular designs. (William Morris Gallery)

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 08:33 IST

He left his wallet in El Segundo: Ryan Davis and the American archetype

Davis treats song-writing like furniture-making. His music is deliberate, tactile and built to last.

Updated on Aug 22, 2025 12:06 IST

Mermaids, wandering trees: Inside the world of lesser-known Indian folktales

A folktale about why trees grew roots, told in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, offers a curt reminder that there is a price to be paid for turning a forest against you. (HT Illustration by Malay Karmakar)

Updated on Aug 22, 2025 12:17 IST

Innovation starts with empathy: Wknd chats with teenaged innovator Gitanjali Rao

(Photo: Aspen Ideas)

Updated on Aug 22, 2025 16:04 IST

Ctrl + Halt + Reset: Charles Assisi on the power of the pause

You can do it without the death stare: Giancarlo Esposito is Gus Fring, the gentlemanly drug lord in Breaking Bad (2008-13) and the spinoff, Better Call Saul (2015-22).

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 09:52 IST

A mini-universe: What scientists found in 1 cubic mm of brain tissue

Inside the fragment, researchers found 150 million synapses and 9 inches of blood vessels in a delicate tapestry. (Above) A 3D illustration of neurons and synapses. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 09:48 IST

Whale said: How far have we come in our quest to eavesdrop on animals?

MAMA?: Research has shown that elephants respond to the unique calls family groups use for specific individuals. (Adobe stock)

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 09:46 IST

The Book of Disappearance: Read an excerpt from the novel by Ibtisam Azem

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 16:28 IST

And then there were none: Wknd interviews Palestinian author Ibtisam Azem

North Gaza in May. (Reuters)

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 16:27 IST

Delightfully weird: Deepanjana Pal writes on Season 2 of Wednesday

At a time when social media threatens to flatten the youth into a monoculture, Wednesday really matters.

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 08:01 IST

Why is Mahjong everywhere?

A mahjong afternoon at the fine-dine Chinese restaurant Yauatcha in Mumbai.

Updated on Aug 15, 2025 09:03 IST

Love mahjong? There are 40 versions of the game to consider

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 10:37 IST

If there is a ‘father of conservation policy’, it is Julian Huxley

Huxley also ushered in CITES, 50 years ago, a global trade agreement that is still saving species from extinction. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Aug 15, 2025 08:42 IST

Wild card entries: Check out 5 species saved by the CITES agreement

Overfishing had nearly wiped out the humphead wrasse, in the oceans of the Indo-Pacific. (A single fish can still fetch up to <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>75,000.) (Wikimedia)

Updated on Aug 15, 2025 08:38 IST

Jeopardy!: See how a global agreement is quietly helping save rare species

Spot: The red panda, Asian black bear, giraffe, common ostrich, tiger, rhinoceros, Humboldt penguin, Nico-bar pigeon, rufous-necked hornbill, Indian python, panther chameleon, and grey- headed flying fox. (HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Aug 15, 2025 08:36 IST

Through heartache and grief, running has been my loyal friend: Ashwini Ganapathi

In Bali, in 2024. ‘Endurance running has become the space in which I feel most alive,’ Ganapathi says.

Updated on Aug 15, 2025 08:32 IST

An automatic life sentence: Poonam Saxena takes a fresh look at Aadhe Adhure

Pratima Kazmi (left) is Savitri, in Aadhe Adhure. (NSD / Instagram)

Updated on Aug 9, 2025 08:16 IST

Oui Transfer: An archive turns playful in Puducherry

The mock office at the French Institute of Pondicherry. (IFP / École Française d’Extrême-Orient)

Updated on Aug 9, 2025 08:14 IST

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