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Listen to the voice of Hind Rajab

Updated on Jun 20, 2026 11:04 IST

The fictionalised sections are set in the Red Crescent office, where frustrated aid workers end up lashing out at one another. The recordings of Hind’s calls are real.

We are all now editors, curators: Kashyap Kompella on our role, in the age of AI

What we stand to lose, if we don't play our role right, is the kind of inspired, spontaneous art MF Husain created when he arrived for a talk at Indian School of Business, years ago, and decided to paint instead. No brushes were available, so he dipped his fingers in pigment and simply painted on a flip chart. (Image: Kashyap Kompella)

Updated on Jun 19, 2026 15:24 IST

Can you imagine...: Kashyap Kompella on creativity in the age of AI

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Jun 19, 2026 16:22 IST

Undiscovered Corbett: A new book shines new light on the hunter-turned-protector

Updated on Jun 19, 2026 11:29 IST

‘The wildlife will return. We need to develop the will to let it’

‘From his letters to his sister Maggie, it seems like he was aware of the impact people were having on wildlife from before World War 1,’ Douglas says.

Updated on Jun 19, 2026 11:32 IST

Can your partner really ‘make’ you happy?

In The Angler (1874) by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a couple finds joy in time spent together, while pursuing their own hobbies. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 09:33 IST

Reel of fortune: Fishermen turn content creators, capturing life at sea

An octopus spotted in the deep seas off Tuticorin, in a still from the video posted by Thoothukudi Meenavan.

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 09:32 IST

Who doesn’t love a bit of magic on the football field?

France’s Rayan Cherki plays like he’s living for the joy of fantastic, free football. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 09:28 IST

Spark notes: Inside the fascinating world of computers powered by brain cells

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT)

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 09:27 IST

Hues that girl?: The art, photography, books that Marilyn Monroe inspired

The 1967 Marilyn Monroe screenprint by Andy Warhol. (Christie’s)

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 08:56 IST

The Marilyn we never knew: Looking back on Monroe in her centenary year

Posing for a portrait in Palm Springs, California, in 1954. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 12:38 IST

On a slide quest: Meet a music legend who drove a school bus to make ends meet

McIlwaine (1945-2021) performs in Chicago in 1980. Leave the slide guitar to the men, she was told. Instead, she played with a ferocity that was, at least for a while, impossible to ignore. She died five years ago this June. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 12:05 IST

Uprising: An exclusive excerpt from the new novel by Bangladesh’s Tahmima Anam

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 11:24 IST

Revolt aboard a floating brothel?: Tahmima Anam discusses her new book

(Photo by Probir Das)

Updated on Jun 12, 2026 11:19 IST

Zoom out, tune in: Charles Assisi on embracing abstractation

Life rarely unfolds with photographic clarity. The trick, therefore, isn’t gathering more clues but spotting patterns in the incomplete. (Above) At first glance, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation 31 (1913) seems obscure. Look closer, and a battle at sea emerges. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:07 IST

A crave new world: How food apps have gamed our brains

Food apps have built on the addictive nature of slot machines.

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:08 IST

Private but no equity: A new book traces the history of privacy

(Adobe Stock; Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:03 IST

Continuity error: Welcome to the age of the anti-romcom

(From left) The Drama, Beef Season 2 and Obsession look suspiciously like romcoms but feel nothing like them.They are depictions of love shaped by new labels and new identities navigated by a new generation.

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:40 IST

Cold truths: Does food taste better after a night in the fridge?

Zoom into a refrigerated curry at the molecular level and nothing is still. The moving molecules can make meats more aromatic the next day and salads soggy. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:03 IST

The odd squad: On World Environment Day, meet the strangest species around us

Leaf sheep can steal chloroplasts from algae, which it then uses to turn sunlight into energy, whenever algae itself becomes scarce. (WIKIMEDIA)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:07 IST

A cannon event: A Wknd chat with Stella Prize winner Lee Lai

(Photo: Laurence Philomene)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 13:03 IST

Worlds per minute: Poonam Saxena writes on the typewriter as an agent of change

Snapshots from the ’60s: Elisabeth Moss is Peggy Olson, secretary-turned-copywriter, on the TV series Mad Men (2007-15). (Above right) An advertisement for a Godrej device.

Updated on May 30, 2026 10:36 IST

Strangled at sea: Inside the race to get ghost gear out of the oceans

Ghost gear traps and kills an estimated 136,000 seals, sea lions and large whales worldwide each year, according to World Animal Protection. (The Pearl Protectors)

Updated on May 30, 2026 10:34 IST

To Die For: Excerpted recipes from an unusual new cookbook

The grave of Annabelle Gunderson, who ran a local car dealership with her husband in Northern California, immortalises the snickerdoodles she made for firefighters in wildfire season, to help keep them going. (James Jelin / To Die For)

Updated on May 30, 2026 09:32 IST

Rolls, roasts, cookies: A new book collects recipes left on gravestones

Cindy Clark-Newby’s recipe for no-bake cookies.

Updated on May 30, 2026 09:39 IST

Going once, going twice... going viral: Meet the new-age auctioneer

Liang-Lin Chen of Christie’s in Hong Kong is known for her calm but warm manner, ready smile, easy wit - and for her trademark qipaos, often in purple, turquoise or midnight blue, with a hint of shimmer. (Christie’s)

Updated on May 30, 2026 10:39 IST

Heard instinct: Sanjoy Narayan is on the hunt for new routes to music

The People’s Party hosted by Femi Koleoso of Ezra Collective is one of several remarkable offerings on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Updated on May 29, 2026 16:00 IST

A running start: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on India’s new sprinting records

Gurindervir Singh is the man hopes will be riding on, in the coming years. He’s 25 and just blazed to a 10.09 finish in the 100m. (Photo: Reliance Foundation Youth Sports)

Updated on May 29, 2026 15:57 IST

Cool aid: What will it take to offset carbon cost of comfort in a warming world?

An estimated 8% to 10% of Indian households currently own an air-conditioner. As this figure rises, alongside summer temperatures, we’re not yet ready – but we could be. (Unsplash)

Updated on May 29, 2026 15:22 IST

Code red: What it will take to make it through summer

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT & Midjourney)

Updated on May 29, 2026 15:19 IST

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