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Prize sensitive: Is it time for a change in how the Nobels are awarded?

Updated on Dec 6, 2024 13:49 IST

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The legend lives on: The essential Raj Kapoor watchlist

Did you know: Awaara, released in Russia in 1954 (three years after its India release), was the year’s biggest hit in that country.

Updated on Dec 6, 2024 13:41 IST

The wonder years: A tribute to the legendary Raj Kapoor, in his centenary year

Read on to see how Raj Kapoor’s films lit up screens in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean; how snatches are reappearing in films made today. (HT Archives)

Published on Dec 6, 2024 13:25 IST

Snap, crackle, pop: Fireside memories of winters gone by

At Lodhi Garden earlier this month. Nothing can erase the exquisite beauty of Delhi’s winter, but the smog we have all contributed to certainly does obscure it. (HT Archives)

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 12:12 IST

Mad Love: Check out Devan Rajkumar’s recipe for grilled broccolini chaat

Packed with nutrients and flavour, the grilled broccolini chaat brings together pomegranate seeds, crumbled honey goat cheese, garlic confit, and chevdo. (Photo: Suech and Beck)

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 10:55 IST

Indian-Jewish Food: Check out a recipe from Elana Benjamin’s cookbook

Benjamin’s favourite way to eat kakas is to dunk them in a cup of tea, although they’re equally good on their own, she says. (Photo: Shibani Mishra)

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 10:58 IST

Amrikan: Try Khushbu Shah’s recipe for jaggery and fennel Rice Krispie treats

(Photo: Aubrie Pick)

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 10:57 IST

Twist in the pot: Indian cookbooks are celebrating new kinds of mixed heritage

Meat blintzes by Elana Benjamin, a Baghdadi Jew in Australia. A range of fermented hot pepper sauces by Indian-Guyanese-Canadian Devan Rajkumar. Keralan fried chicken sandwiches with a curry leaf mayo by Khushbu Shah, a Gujarati in the US. (Photos:Shibani Mishra, Suech and Beck, Aubrie Pick)

Updated on Dec 1, 2024 03:32 IST

Purrfect holiday?: A new book traces cat lore around the world

In Netherlands, restaurants adopt cats as a way to keep rodents out. Amsterdam is also home to De Poezenboot (The Catboat), a rare floating cat shelter. It was founded in the 1960s, and now operates as the base of a cat-welfare NGO too. (Photo by Andrew Marttila)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 10:21 IST

Tales of kitty galore: A new book explores cat lore from around the world

In country after country, the book’s co-authors found, cats are worshipped, cared for and treasured as part of the landscape. Above, Hodge, the cat at London’s Southwark Cathedral. (Photo by Andrew Marttila)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 10:20 IST

Diss track: Rudraneil Sengupta on Australia, and India’s, history with sledging

Rishabh Pant and Australia’s Alex Carey. Pant’s banter, good-humoured but relent-less, is said to wear batsmen down. (AP)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 09:40 IST

Iru: Read an exclusive excerpt from the book on anthropologist Irawati Karve

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 08:26 IST

Bone of contention: How anthropologist Irawati Karve took on race theory

Karve at work in Gujarat, in 1944. (Images courtesy Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 08:25 IST

Mind craft: Brain researcher Shubha Tole discusses embryos, dreams and dance

‘The brain is like a magnificent building that constructs itself from the ground up, and somehow ends up with everything — stairs, windows, fire exits — in the right place,’ Tole says. (Photo: Gayatri Narayanan)

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 11:58 IST

Rolling with the hunches: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

The math is never easy: A still from the 1959 Disney film, Donald in Mathmagic Land.

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 14:15 IST

For the love of Goat: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Sweden’s cosmic folk concept band

At a festival in Barcelona in 2016. (Getty Images)

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 11:59 IST

Rich pickings: Swetha Sivakumar takes a look at ‘designer’ fruit

Today it seems absurd that pineapples were once prized fruits, but look closely and the legacy endures: an intricate, tiny replica of a pineapple still sits atop the Wimbledon men’s singles trophy. (Getty Images)

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 14:12 IST

Sick with worry?: A look at the arc of hypochondria

Girl Before A Mirror (1932) by Pablo Picasso. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 14:12 IST

Leap ears: AI is storming the headphones space

(Clockwise from top left) hearing aids from Orka, Starkey, Oticon, Phonak, Signia, Widex and Apple.

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 14:11 IST

What happened to the dream?: Deepanjana Pal on Bollywood’s fantasy factory

Despite its budget of about <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>150 crore, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, starring Kartik Aaryan, suffers from a lack of ambition, attention to detail and effort.

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 11:07 IST

A root awakening: The short film Murmurs of the Jungle is not to be missed

No artificial light was used in Murmurs of the Jungle. The soundscape mirrors the drifting voices of an evening spent by the edge of a village. (Digvijay Thorat)

Updated on Nov 8, 2024 15:40 IST

Sticks, stars, sickness: How early charts plotted the way we were

Dots, lines and Y-shaped symbols have been found near the paintings of deer and bison in France’s Lascaux caves. (Images via Wikimedia; Bennett Bacon et al, 2023)

Updated on Nov 8, 2024 15:39 IST

Plot twist: A quick history of charts, the elegant messengers of math

(HT illustration: Puneet Kumar; Images: Adobe Firefly)

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 11:00 IST

Right off the bat: A Wknd profile of cricket’s rising star, Smriti Mandhana

(ICC via Getty Images)

Updated on Nov 10, 2024 04:15 IST

On the frontlines: A Wknd interview with legendary journalist Bob Woodward

(Photo: Lisa Berg)

Updated on Nov 7, 2024 10:49 IST

Don’t overthink it, on early dates, says Simran Mangharam

Reclining Couple Reading a Letter, circa 1820s, attributed to Kikugawa Eizan.

Updated on Nov 2, 2024 09:17 IST

Indus creed: What we’re learning about the Harappan Civilisation, 100 yrs on

(Clockwise from top left) A bronze figurine now called Woman Riding Two Brahman Bulls; a bull seal; a yogi seal; an excavation site. (Images: Wikimedia Commons; Getty; ASI; MET; British Museum; HT Archives)

Updated on Nov 2, 2024 09:15 IST

A key goalpost is finally shifting: Rudraneil Sengupta on Rodri’s Ballon d’Or

Rodri (left) in action during a Premier League match between Manchester City and Arsenal in September. (Getty Images)

Updated on Nov 2, 2024 09:12 IST

Swipe, match, repeat?: How to get more out of your dating apps

In Nobody Wants This (2024-), Kristen Bell’s character develops the ick for the otherwise loveable Noah (played by Adam Brody). His fouls: Referring to a blazer as a sports coat, carrying enormous sunflowers, and using a fake Italian accent in a joke.

Updated on Nov 2, 2024 08:06 IST

Match point: If dating is a track event, what kind of runner are you?

(Image generated via Adobe Firefly)

Updated on Nov 2, 2024 08:04 IST

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