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The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide

Updated on May 4, 2025 02:31 IST

Viewed as a separate country, India 1 - made up of the top 10% - would consist of about 140 million people, with per capita income at about <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>12.80 lakh. (Pixabay)

Who’s rich? Who’s poor? Who’s middle-class?

How unequal are we? The bottom half of the country currently owns less than 7% of the nations wealth. The top 1% controls nearly 40%. And the gap is growing.

Updated on May 4, 2025 01:31 IST

‘For us physicists, beauty is a new idea that unifies and explains’

‘I find it amazing that the entire universe runs as per these mathematical laws, unchangingly. That… to me, that’s God,’ Jain says.

Updated on May 4, 2025 24:30 IST

Just someone I used to know?: Charles Assisi writes on fading intimacy

We rarely even talk about it, except perhaps in the movies. (Above) Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg play cousins, once close and now in different worlds, in the masterful film A Real Pain (2024).

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:44 IST

Workout tunes: Sanjoy Narayan puts together a playlist to help you flex

The cover of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue.

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:40 IST

Palm before the storm: A look at how gestures can be misunderstood

Stop, thanks, or shut your face? Even the simplest gesture can hold a range of meanings.

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:38 IST

Spin cycle: Why Earth’s rotational speed is changing

At capacity, China’s Three Gorges Dam holds back 10 trillion gallons of water. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:34 IST

Where is the love? See why couples are breaking up, in the world of birds

On Australia’s Phillip Island, fertility rates are down, and separation rates within the world’s largest colony of penguins are shooting up. (Getty Images)

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:33 IST

What are we all watching?: Deepanjana Pal on the missing Hindi comfort show

Hollwood is still doing the comfort watch fairly well. This year’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a good example. It allows Jones to retain her silliness but adds layers of depth and even pathos.

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:28 IST

Dial hard: An archive of Nokia designs that never made it to the factory floor

A rendering of virtual-reality goggles, from the Nokia Design Archive at Aalto University.

Updated on Apr 25, 2025 09:15 IST

A thriller Top 10: Check out K Narayanan’s essential Hitchcock watchlist

Updated on Apr 25, 2025 09:05 IST

Through the rear window: On Alfred Hitchcock, 100 years since his first film

North by Northwest; 1959: Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant), an ad executive mistaken for a spy, is chased by a crop-duster trying to mow him down. ‘That plane’s dusting crops where there ain’t no crops,’ he says.

Updated on Apr 25, 2025 09:03 IST

‘Are we ready for this?’: Wknd interviews the astrophysicist who captured signs

The gas signatures Madhusudhan and his team at Cambridge have detected are the surest signs of life outside Earth that humanity has ever encountered. How we interpret and build on this data, from 124 light years away, will be crucial, he says.

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 09:37 IST

Read herrings: Poonam Saxena celebrates Hindi crime writer Surendra Mohan Pathak

Pathak’s aura remains undimmed, even though the glory days of Hindi pulp-fiction themselves are long over. (HT Archives)

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 11:29 IST

More than you can chew: Swetha Sivakumar explores extreme food records

Where do you draw the line?: Shaggy and Scooby-Doo.

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 11:24 IST

Pounds and prejudice: Graphic novel Shrink explores life in a large body

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 11:21 IST

Lather, rinse, record: A new book traces the ancient history of dhobis of Delhi

A dhobi at work in Jangpura, Delhi. (HT Archives)

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 11:27 IST

Victory formations: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on FC Barcelona’s killer trios

Raphinha, Lewandowski and Yamal at a Champions League game. (Image: FCBarcelona.com)

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 11:18 IST

Divination, Oracles & Omens: Excerpt from book on ancient predictive methods

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 09:05 IST

Leaps of fate: See how people of the past attempted to predict the future

A 19th-century Chinese wheel of fortune. (Courtesy Divination, Oracles & Omens)

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 11:56 IST

Landscape view: How the bungalow, born in Bengal,took on new shapes across India

The Shovabazar Rajbari in Kolkata. The grandeur of these erstwhile homes came at a price. It cost about 10 times as much to build a bungalow in Kolkata as it did elsewhere in colonised India. (Getty Images)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 09:00 IST

Plot twist: How the bungalow was born in India and has travelled the world since

The Manale Tea Bungalow, built in the 1800s, in Munnar, Kerala. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 08:57 IST

The Living Air: Read an excerpt from the book on birding by Aasheesh Pittie

The Living Air: The Pleasures of Birds and Birding was published by Indian Pitta in 2023.

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 07:45 IST

Feather report: Wknd interviews award-winning birder Aasheesh Pittie

‘Be patient, be mindful. Pause the chase for posts and Likes; leave some of that expensive camera equipment behind. It isn’t about the perfect picture… not at all,’ Pittie says. (HT Photo: Abhinandita Mathur)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 07:43 IST

No need to multi-mask: Life Hacks with Charles Assisi

Deux Tetes (Two Heads) by Karel Appel; 1953. (Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 18:02 IST

Bungle in the Nordic jungle: Sanjoy Narayan goes live, with Jethro Tull

Photography was prohibited at the Helsinki gig, but here’s Ian Anderson, now 77 (at centre), and the band, during the Prog Years tour in 2021. (Nick Harrison / Jethrotull.com)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 10:52 IST

How does one perfect a staple? Swetha Sivakumar’s go-to recipe for aloo-beans

The no-fail aloo-beans. ‘It’s been such a success, my daughter said I could make it every week,’ says Sivakumar.

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 12:29 IST

Too many cooks? I’d say too few: Swetha Sivakumar on the perils of video recipes

(Freepik)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 10:12 IST

That sudden urge to jump from a high place? It has a name: the call of the void

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 10:50 IST

Cirrus business: Why do we still know so little about clouds?

Where are they going? They just won’t say: Cumulus clouds race across the sky. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 14:16 IST

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