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Ulterior motifs: 100 years of Art Deco - in jewellery, art, fashion

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 11:19 IST

Artist AM Cassandre’s masterpiece of a poster for the passenger ship SS Normandie, created in 1935, gives on the sense of looking up, even when one is simply looking across.

Line of beauty: Wknd and MAP Academy celebrate 100 years of Art Deco

(Clockwise from top left) The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture in Moscow; the Visalam Chettinad mansion-turned-hotel in Tamil Nadu; Hoechst Dyeworks in Frankfurt, Germany; and Central Market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Images: Adobe Stock, Art Deco by Norbert Wolf)

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 14:45 IST

Stoicism 101: What is it and how deeply does it resonate in India?

Generated by Kashyap Kompella via ChatGPT.

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 11:17 IST

The Stoic Capitalist: An exclusive excerpt from the book by Robert Rosenkranz

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 11:15 IST

Stoic in the boardroom: An interview with Wall Street mogul Robert Rosenkranz

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 14:39 IST

Is time ‘moving faster’ for you too? Charles Assisi has answers in Life Hacks

An astronomical clock in Prague. To make better sense of time, seek out precious or new experiences. As we create memories, time ‘stretches’, researchers say. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 21, 2025 10:36 IST

Spot the mane clause: Equine terms are hiding where you’d least expect them

In more recent times, a stellar show starring Will Arnett as BoJack gave the term horseman a new meaning.

Updated on Jun 21, 2025 10:33 IST

Private Revolutions: Read an excerpt from Yuan Yang’s new book on China

Updated on Jun 21, 2025 10:01 IST

Year of the... dragon?: Yuan Yang’s book explores the flip side of China’s boom

Street art in Chongqing. ‘There is growing uncertainty, particularly among the urban middle-class,’ says journalist, author and UK MP Yang. ‘An idea that, even with greater effort, the returns will be lower.’ (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 21, 2025 10:00 IST

Love, and other bugs: Deepanjana Pal writes on Materialists

Even Pascal’s crinkly-eyed smile can’t plug the gaps. Materialists isn’t nearly as heart-wrenching as writer-director Celine Song’s last film, Past Lives (2023).

Updated on Jun 21, 2025 09:33 IST

The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City: An exclusive excerpt

Updated on Jun 21, 2025 10:30 IST

Word on the street: A delightful collection of poems celebrates Indian cities

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 08:48 IST

Bans, partner programmes, baby sharks: A look at YouTube by the numbers

Home run: Stills featuring some of India’s biggest YouTubers — Ajey Nagar aka CarryMinati, Amit Sharma aka Crazy XYZ, Bhuvan Bam of BB Ki Vines and Prajakta Koli aka MostlySane.

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 08:20 IST

Deep in the shadowlands: Check out YouTube’s best-kept secrets

Deep YouTube, as researchers are calling it, has ended up a sort of record of who we are, how we lived, what we loved. Fragments range from experimental selfies to raw footage from dashcams, private events and a child’s rap song about Neptune’s many moons.

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 08:17 IST

Our world on autoplay: K Narayanan writes on 20 years of YouTube

SPOT the first-ever video, the ice-bucket challenge, Justin Bieber, Moo Deng, MrBeast, Dhanush and Kolaveri Di, Pomplamoose, Logan Paul, Charlie and his brother, SNL’s early viral Lazy Sunday sketch, Hanumankind, Baby Shark, PewDiePie, Jamie Oliver, Psy, and Tay Zonday singing Chocolate Rain.

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 08:06 IST

The Elsewhereans: Read an exclusive excerpt from Jeet Thayil’s new book

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 08:00 IST

I spent years trying to be the black sheep of my family: Jeet Thayil

(Photo by Pallavi Gaur)

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 07:58 IST

A stroll down Jane street: Poonam Saxena on Austen as the ultimate comfort read

Frothy, funny and acerbic, Northanger Abbey (1817) is often seen as a satire on the Gothic novel. Above, a still from the 1987 film adaption.

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 11:18 IST

Beauty in the beast: Sanjoy Narayan on the joys of Deafheaven’s sonic paradox

The cover art for Roads to Judah (2011).

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 13:20 IST

Cellular memory: Tales of exiles and prisoners from the Dagshai jail museum

The cells in the modern prison were used to house freedom fighters and, for one night, Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin, Nathuram Godse. (Gustasp & Jeroo Irani)

Updated on Jun 16, 2025 11:04 IST

Wood omens: What will the forests of the future look like?

Pipes pump carbon into the air above a contained canopy, in an experiment underway in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. (Courtesy AmazonFACE)

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 11:10 IST

Smooth operators: Swetha Sivakumar on blenders, ice and the age of the smoothie

For decades, blenders couldn’t handle ice. The Vitamix kicked off a revolution and, today, smoothie-makers have blades made of aircraft-grade stainless steel that can reach speeds in excess of 25,000 rpm. (Adobe stock)

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 11:05 IST

New details are emerging of Indian WW1 troops amid the Christmas Truce of 1914

Troops in the trenches, during World War 1. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 11:02 IST

‘What does loneliness sound like?’

Home (2016) by Indian artist Sudhir Patwardhan. (Courtesy Sudhir Patwardhan / Vadehra Art Gallery)

Updated on Jun 13, 2025 10:53 IST

A Biography of Loneliness: Read an excerpt from the book by Fay Bound Alberti

Updated on Jun 13, 2025 10:57 IST

Robots, ‘happy cabs’: How governments are stepping in to tackle loneliness

Room in New York (1932) by the American realist Edward Hopper. (Image Courtesy University of Nebraska)

Updated on Jun 13, 2025 10:55 IST

‘Is it just me, or....’: A Wknd special on loneliness

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Jun 13, 2025 10:52 IST

Master of disguise: Meet the inventor of a state-of-the-art invisibility cloak

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 11:25 IST

Why aren’t we nicer to ourselves?: This week’s Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

A toilet cleaner finds beauty in the everyday, in the exquisite Japanese film Perfect Days (2023). Some music, a few moments of relaxation, these can be treated as essentials too.

Updated on Jun 7, 2025 10:03 IST

Waste Wars: Read an exclusive excerpt from the book by Alexander Clapp

Updated on Jun 9, 2025 07:58 IST

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