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Can AI ‘think’? In a few years, this won’t be a question, says Indian researcher

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:15 IST

Bagugoshe (Pears): Read Swadesh Deepak’s story, in translation

Updated on May 17, 2025 08:24 IST

How does it all go so pear-shaped?: Poonam Saxena writes on bonds with mothers

Author Swadesh Deepak. (Image: Soumitra Mohan)

Updated on May 17, 2025 08:22 IST

The Ruins of Gour: Read an excerpt from a book on Bengal’s lost cities

The Kadam Rasul or Footprint of the Messenger mosque. (The Ruins of Gour)

Updated on May 17, 2025 08:15 IST

Crystal maze: Swetha Sivakumar writes on the mystery of clear ice

(Images: Adobe Stock)

Updated on May 17, 2025 08:19 IST

Connecting the dots: Check out a ‘tattoo garden’ in Manipur

Across Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, hand-tapped dots and stripes serve as markers of identity, age, class, marital status, or even how many rivals a brave warrior has killed in battle. (Headhunters’ Ink)

Updated on May 17, 2025 12:48 IST

Capital gains: Tour the lost cities of Gaur and Pandua in West Bengal

The Firoz Minar in Gaur. (Leah Verghese)

Updated on May 17, 2025 08:12 IST

The end of the Age of Kohli: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on an exceptional leader

When was the last time we had a cricketer who wore his heart on his sleeve as Virat Kohli did? (PTI)

Updated on May 17, 2025 08:08 IST

India’s Renaissance woman: Chandrima Shaha, a biologist, cricketer, photographer

Shaha resets a camera lens, during her years as a photographer, in the 1970s. (Courtesy Chandrima Shaha: A Lifelong Journey of Scientific Inquiry)

Updated on May 16, 2025 12:05 IST

Is a River Alive?: Read an exclusive excerpt from Robert Macfarlane’s new book

Updated on May 16, 2025 11:49 IST

‘Why do companies have rights, but not rivers’: Nature writer Robert Macfarlane

‘We’ve forgotten that rivers are life-givers. We’ve redefined them as a resource. They carry our waste away, provide power. The fact that not a single river in the UK is in good health is proof that the stories we’ve been telling are inaccurate,’ Macfarlane says. (Photo: Bryan Appleyard)

Updated on May 16, 2025 11:47 IST

In photos: See designs by Charles Frederick Worth, the father of haute couture

One of the designs on display in Paris until September 7, in collaboration with the Palais Galliera. Worth, an Englishman who moved to Paris, founded the House of Worth there in 1858. (Petit Palais art museum)

Updated on May 16, 2025 12:03 IST

Why the cart is always full: The rise of the microtrend in fashion

King Louis XIV (r. 1643 -1715) is the reason we have ‘royal’ blue. Also above, gowns from 18th-century England and China. 19th-century Paris, 20th-century Australia, and H&M and Zara collections from 2025 and ’24. (National Museum of China, Wiki-media, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Updated on May 16, 2025 11:55 IST

King Louis IX to birth of couture: The surprising history of fashion forecasting

In the 1850s, Charles Frederick Worth began to sew tags into his designs, bearing his name. This made him, essentially, the inventor of the “fashion label”. (Above) The Worth label on a Russian court dress from 1888. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 16, 2025 11:53 IST

Spin cycle: Inside the world of trendspotting and fashion forecasting

What’s coming our way?: A still from the H&M Spring 2025 campaign.

Updated on May 16, 2025 11:51 IST

Do a little Sault-searching: Sanjoy Narayan writes on an invisible British band

Sault does everything their own way. The band’s latest album, 10, was unveiled on Good Friday, then disappeared until Easter Sunday, echoing its themes of death, rebirth and renewal.

Updated on May 10, 2025 09:40 IST

Listen, don’t leap: Charles Assisi writes on coping with opposing worldviews

The animated film Flow is certainly about the cat, but the capybara is really the hero of the tale. A peaceful creature, it steps up when a stand must be taken, works to unite, and quietly inspires.

Updated on May 10, 2025 09:57 IST

The anti-rot police: Swetha Sivakumar on how produce stays so fresh these days

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on May 10, 2025 09:55 IST

Tuning into beetle mania: At the Audubon insectarium in New Orleans

Startled, a desert ironclad beetle plays dead in its enclosure at the insectarium. (Sonia Nazareth)

Updated on May 10, 2025 09:52 IST

A host of mini-me’s: History of the tiny bio, and what makes it so hard to frame

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on May 10, 2025 09:43 IST

Blunt-force drama: Deepanjana Pal writes on the new series Black, White and Gray

Palak Jaiswal in Black, White & Gray - Love Kills.

Updated on May 10, 2025 09:14 IST

Jane character energy: How are Austen’s novels still the stuff of blockbusters?

The Bridget Jones franchise is the story of Pride and Prejudice, retold. Watch the fourth instalment, this year’s …Mad About the Boy, for the way it moves its characters beautifully into uncertain middle-age.

Updated on May 9, 2025 08:08 IST

It’s not just that the heat could kill you: Author, researcher Jeff Goodell

A pharmacy in Rome displays the day’s temperature, as a means of alerting pedestrians. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 9, 2025 08:06 IST

Shields up: See how Seville, Paris, Sydney, Ahmedabad are tackling deadly heat

Paris has a network of cool islands – pools, fountains and parks - mapped on the government’s heat app. When temperature breach dangerous levels, the app pings with alerts and can guide the user to the nearest such spot. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 9, 2025 08:03 IST

Feel the burn?: The nature of the heat we face is changing

Rajpath shimmers in the Delhi heat. IMD does not yet factor humidity levels into its heatwave parameters. This is an issue, because humidity levels are rising - as part of the urban heat island effect - even in the drier megacities. This is part of what is making heat more deadly. (HT Archive)

Updated on May 9, 2025 08:01 IST

The thing is...: Wknd interviews an unusual collector of everyday objects

Over 50 years, Khandakar has collected 12,000 objects. Some are extraordinary – antiques dating to the Mughal era. Many are simply the nuts and bolts of the everyday: pens, toys, perfume bottles, beads, letters. (Anand Kumar Ekbote; Dotgain Info for Berlin Biennale 2022)

Updated on May 9, 2025 07:59 IST

Inviting a whole bot of trouble: Simran Mangharam on AI in relationships

Mobile Lovers, a mural created by Banksy, in Bristol. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 3, 2025 12:20 IST

India, Angola, Peru and the Moon: See who’s on an endangered heritage sites list

The Sea of Tranquillity, with its unusually flat surface, has served as a landing pad for numerous Moon missions, including the first manned one, featuring Buzz Aldrin. A flag, a boot print and assorted trash and memorabilia now lie strewn across the area. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 3, 2025 12:17 IST

The vault in our stars: Rudraneil Sengupta on Indian gymnastics

What does it take to pull off this kind of balancing act? Don’t ask the Gymnastics Federation of India. (Photo Courtesy Laureus)

Updated on May 3, 2025 12:15 IST

Best fruit forward: Check out a unique ‘mango museum’ in Gujarat

Samples of the red ivory, strawberry, banana and King of Chakapat mangoes grown on the Jariyas’ 12-acre farm.

Updated on May 3, 2025 12:14 IST

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