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Exit wounds: Ann Patchett on books, writing, family, and the power of love

Updated on May 29, 2026 14:40 IST

‘There are tremendous benefits to stability in family, and there are benefits to chaos... in the end, I don’t think there’s any family that’s not going to bruise,’ says Patchett, 62.

Ctrl + Alt + Deplete: Charles Assisi writes on why we all seem overwhelmed

Untitled (1967), by Mozambican painter and poet Malangatana Ngwenya, set during the country’s War of Independence from Portugal. Most of us do not live amid conflict, threat or need. Yet, even when nothing seems wrong, the unease remains. (Tate Galleries)

Updated on May 23, 2026 15:23 IST

Making cents of currency: Adam Jacot de Boinod writes on alternatives to money

Chinese men carry bricks of tea, of the kind used as currency, to Tibet, as documented by British explorer EH Wilson in 1908. (Wikimedia)

Updated on May 23, 2026 15:20 IST

What were you expecting? Two new books unpack surprises about motherhood

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on May 23, 2026 13:49 IST

A newt dawn: Whitley awardee Barkha Subba discusses her fight for salamanders

(Photo by Anirban Datta Roy)

Updated on May 24, 2026 07:21 IST

Something to riff through: A reading guide to Miles Davis, by Rachel Lopez

Art from Miles and the Search for the Sound (2023).

Updated on May 22, 2026 13:54 IST

Hear, there, everywhere: How Miles Davis left his mark on the Global South

Davis at the Zenith Jazz Festival in Paris in 1989. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 22, 2026 13:39 IST

A million Miles: In his 100th year, see how Miles Davis revolutionised jazz

(Images: Getty, Wikimedia; HT Imaging)

Updated on May 22, 2026 13:30 IST

Shear mastery: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Sheep Detectives

Hugh Jackman reads to his herd, in The Sheep Detectives. Based on a German novel from 2005, the story, unusually, finds the beauty in clouds without silver linings.

Updated on May 22, 2026 10:54 IST

Hearts and crafts: Simran Mangharam on what it takes to show up for a loved one

A still from the film Up (2009). Sometimes I think children’s movies do the best job of reminding us that there are better versions of our selves that we can be.

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:50 IST

Behind the seams: When caring feels exhausting, here’s how craftivism can help

The origami birds crowdsourced by WWF and hung outside Spain’s parliament, in an effort to protect a river, in 2016. (Image via M Navas for WWF)

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:43 IST

The economics of exclusion: How far have we come on caste?

The slim 50-page manifesto stands out for its lucidity and revolutionary invocation.

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:35 IST

Warrior, rebel, north star: Celebrating BR Ambedkar as his manifesto turns 90

(Above left) Ambedkar delivers a speech. (Above right) Ambedkar, at centre, with members of the drafting committee of the Constitution, in an image from 1947. (Images: Wikimedia; HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:45 IST

‘Tell me where it hurts’: Inside a videogame about life as a health worker

In the game, players must get women to talk about their health, gently probe if there are signs of negligence or abuse. If it feels tedious and exhausting, that’s exactly what the creators were going for.

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:47 IST

A room full of stars: Sanjoy Narayan on the Pitchblack Playback experience

Narayan listened to the 1975 album Who’s Next by The Who, at Helsinki’s Gilda cinema.

Updated on May 15, 2026 18:16 IST

Feat accompli: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on the rash of new records in sport

Armand Duplantis at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. The pole-vaulter has broken his own world record 15 times over six years. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 15, 2026 18:11 IST

Root awakening: Hysteria, gypped and other terms with troubling origins

“Once you start seeing the stories behind the words, you want to keep pulling at the threads,” says Karen Stollznow, author of On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present (2020) and Bitch: The Journey of a Word (2024). (HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on May 15, 2026 18:06 IST

Theft, loneliness, deception, murder... in tales for children aged 3 to 9?

Klassen’s picture-books introduce children to a world where the answers may not always be clear, and may not be what they wish for — but where they still retain the power to shape the tale. (Images via Jon Klassen)

Updated on May 15, 2026 18:01 IST

Will, and Grace: Charles Assisi writes on euthanasia

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on May 9, 2026 10:29 IST

Sing, Slivered Tongue: Read more poems by women, themed on trauma

Updated on May 9, 2026 10:27 IST

No-holds bard: Poems about trauma by women from across South Asia

The 19th-century Mughal watercolour that inspired Tishani Doshi’s poem, Tiger Woman. (Wikimedia)

Updated on May 9, 2026 10:23 IST

Against the flame: Raza Kazmi tours memorials to martyred guardians of forests

(HT Illustration: Malay Karmakar)

Updated on May 10, 2026 08:50 IST

Rue breakers: Rachel Lopez traces new twists in songs about regret

Among our key regrets from this week in pop culture: That we don’t all have a version of Emma Chamberlain’s dream-like van Gogh-inspired outfit. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 8, 2026 13:31 IST

Haute and bothered: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Devil Wears Prada 2

How did this happen? Instead of being the outsider who can tell beauty spots from warts, part two is the blinkered insider, unable now to critique the industry in which it is set.

Updated on May 8, 2026 12:34 IST

Won for the ages: Meet Sawan Barwal, Army man setting new records as marathoner

(Photo via Reliance Foundation Youth Sports)

Updated on May 8, 2026 12:19 IST

Prose and cons of a beloved city: A look back at Allahabad

Allahabad Fort by Charles Forrest of the British East India Company; 1824. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 11:57 IST

First-word problems: What did the earliest writers write about?

One of Kushim’s clay tablets, tracking cereals and beer, dated to 5,300 years ago. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 11:55 IST

In an alternate universe: How will the Mandela Effect evolve, in the age of AI?

Mr Monopoly doesn’t have a monocle. The Planters food company mascot, Mr Peanut, does. Because of how the brain organises memory, we apply the monocle to both. That kind of mixed-up ‘memory’ is called the Mandela Effect.

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 11:37 IST

It’s blooming time: Inside Japanese artist Mari Ito’s first exhibition in India

Ito against the canvas Joy Can Last Forever Depending on How You Perceive It.

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 11:35 IST

What do they know that we don’t?: How indigenous people fight invasive species

In Ethiopia, there are poems about the dangers of the fast-spreading invasive Prosopis juliflora, brought to the country in the 1970s as part of a fodder and anti-land-erosion effort. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 16:54 IST

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