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Sprout of the ordinary: Have we completely misunderstood what plants are?

Updated on Oct 12, 2024 10:06 IST

(HT illustration: Jayanto)

In Devi-elopment: Deepanjana Pal writes on Durgas in cinema

The film CTRL by Vikramaditya Motwane is effective, if imperfect. Crucially, Ananya Panday’s character Nella isn’t someone who could shapeshift into a Neil.

Updated on Oct 12, 2024 08:01 IST

A man befriends a cloud, in a touching debut by filmmaker Abhinandan Banerjee

A still from Manikbabur Megh, featuring theatre veteran Chandan Sen.

Updated on Oct 12, 2024 07:58 IST

Going bunkers on screen: See how tech-driven dystopias have played out

As satellites fail and communication systems blink out, smart cars go rogue and block highways in the Netflix film Leave the World Behind (2023).

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 14:29 IST

Rivals, pirates, malware: Whispers of cyberthreats from the future

The threat of outages is real too. The US’s computer model DAGGER uses AI and other algorithms to analyse solar wind and geomagnetic disturbances and predict their likely impact worldwide, at least 30 minutes before they occur. (NASA / ESA / SOHO)

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 14:30 IST

There’s a battle brewing...and it will be fought in ones and zeroes

(HT Illustration: Rahul Krishnan)

Updated on Oct 12, 2024 10:31 IST

How I got here: See panels from the graphic novel Voices from Nepal

(Courtesy Dan Archer / Voices from Nepal)

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 08:02 IST

Quick on the draw: A Wknd interview with comic journalist Dan Archer

In some of Archer’s VR and AR comics, the viewer walks through a re-enactment as it unfolds. This allows for multiple perspectives, he says. ‘Which is a very important reminder that there is no one single truth.’ (Images courtesy Dan Archer / Voices from Nepal)

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 08:05 IST

The thing about starting over: Simran Mangharam, on finding love again

In the Netflix series Nobody Wants This (2024), an almost-engaged rabbi is single again. A new love involves conflict, sacrifice, and rethinking what he wants and who he wants to be.

Updated on Oct 5, 2024 08:16 IST

Finding a deeper register: Sanjoy Narayan on rising British star Nadine Shah

Updated on Oct 5, 2024 08:14 IST

Kin’s speech: One woman is archiving folk songs of insult and dissent from Bihar

An illustration by Amrit Sufi of an Angika song being sung as the jhoomar dance is performed by women in Banka, Bihar.

Updated on Oct 5, 2024 08:13 IST

Well, well, well: Meet the artist documenting stepwells around India

The 9th-century Chand Baori in Rajasthan. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Oct 5, 2024 08:11 IST

Similar battle, new arena: Rudraneil Sengupta on Vinesh Phogat the politician

Phogat campaigns on a Congress ticket, ahead of the Haryana Assembly elections. (PTI)

Updated on Oct 5, 2024 08:08 IST

Wlot, no dialogue, very little food: How The Blair Witch Project was made

The three actors - Heather Donahue (above), Joshua Leonard and Michael C Williams - were sent out each day with GPS coordinates to follow. All dialogue was ad-libbed.

Updated on Oct 4, 2024 11:00 IST

Tipping the scales: Wknd interviews retired Supreme Court justice Hima Kohli

(HT Photo: Arvind Yadav)

Updated on Oct 5, 2024 15:15 IST

Too much, too much, of everything: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

A still from The Great Gatsby (2013). Happiness and fulfilment don’t come from wealth, popularity or opulence alone. We know this. Why is it so easy to forget?

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 10:41 IST

Talk time: Are you a pepper mill or a cowbell?

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 10:35 IST

Taming of the shroom: Swetha Sivakumar writes on truffles

A ripe truffle doesn’t look like much; the white Alba resembles a potato and the black Perigord looks like a pebble. Because they grow underground, they use aromas rather than appearance to draw seed dispersers. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 15:30 IST

Ballast from the past: How did Bronze Age boats sail the open seas?

(Photo courtesy Emily Harris / Zayed National Museum)

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 10:32 IST

All puns blazing: What makes a good joke?

(HT Illustrations: Jayanto)

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 10:28 IST

Could Alia revive the Bollywood love story?: Deepanjana Pal looks ahead in hope

A still from Jigra, Bhatt's new film. Directed by Vasan Bala, it flips the script to have her play a woman going to war for her brother.

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 10:21 IST

Lost and sound: Bhanuj Kappal writes on the new Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album

Updated on Sep 27, 2024 15:42 IST

Inside the Anokhi archive of hand-printed fashion

(Images courtesy Anokhi)

Updated on Sep 27, 2024 15:40 IST

Style files: What five things would you put in a fashion archive?

Iterations of the Chanel tweed jacket from the 1950s to the present day. About 100 years after it was created, it is still fashionable, and instantly recognisable. (Getty Images)

Updated on Sep 27, 2024 15:39 IST

Swatch this space: Inside the archives of some of Indian biggest fashion labels

(Left to right) Designs from the archives of Rahul Mishra, Tarun Tahiliani, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, the late Wendell Rodricks and Payal Jain.

Updated on Sep 27, 2024 15:34 IST

‘It’s like our very own Tarun Tahiliani Wikipedia’

(Centre) At the Tahiliani archive. (Above left) A sketch from 2013 that helped recreate an iconic dress (above right).

Updated on Sep 27, 2024 15:37 IST

Rolling in the deep: A Wknd interview with award-winning filmmaker Mike Pandey

(Image: Riverbank Studios)

Updated on Sep 27, 2024 15:29 IST

Can I have a katha or kahani, please, says Poonam Saxena

A still from the outstanding new Malayalam series Manorathangal, based on the writings of MT Vasudevan Nair.

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 08:30 IST

Folk, spoken word, jazz: Give the old mix a shuffle, says Sanjoy Narayan

Cover art for the album Veena by American rapper Heems (birth name: Himanshu Kumar Suri).

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 07:59 IST

Track changes in Bastar: Check out medleys by tribal artists, Mumbai band Daira

(Clockwise from top left) Lakheshwar Khudaram, Vineeta Pandey, Rahul Raikwar on the flute, and Soma playing the todi.

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 07:57 IST

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