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

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:50 IST

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.

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

Pretty little liars: The struggle to stop the lantana

Lantana camara is now among the most widespread invasive alien species worldwide. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 16:51 IST

Resident aliens: Check out the damage done by invasive plants, fish, insects

Spot the red fox, tropical fire ants, lantana, tree of heaven, pleco fish, branched pipe coral and water hyacinth. (images: Shutterstock; HT Illustration via ChatGPT)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 16:49 IST

New set of trainers: Rudraneil Sengupta on women managers in men’s football

It is, in fact, still so rare that journalists from around the world flocked to Eta’s first press conference and first match. (AFP)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 13:13 IST

Bass to the future: Sanjoy Narayan on the many moods of Thundercat

Cover art for the single I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time, from Distracted.

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 12:34 IST

Make way for Clog-Zilla: Rachel Lopez writes on fatbergs

In American illustrator Nathan T Wright’s children’s book, The Adventures of Fatberg (2015), the stinky sewer blockages are imagined as friendly, misunderstood creatures.

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 09:28 IST

A dash of seasoning: How salt gave us the words salary, salad, saucer

A 2,500-year-old mural at the Mayan site of Calakmul in Mexico shows salt being traded. It is believed to have served as a form of money and a vital commodity here. The man in the broad-brimmed hat (likely made from vegetable fibre) was likely the buyer in this transaction. (Rogelio Valencia, Proyecto Arqueológico Calakmul via Louisiana State University)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 09:20 IST

The quiet dread you’re feeling has a name: hyper-normalisation

Anti-war protests in LA; Disaster Girl memes; starvation in Gaza; US-Israel missiles exploding in Tehran. (Images: Shutterstock, AP)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 09:14 IST

That sounded better in Mandarin: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Drama vs a C-drama

Pursuit of Jade, Chinese TV’s first truly global hit, tells the love story of a haughty nobleman and a female butcher.

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 09:06 IST

Are you there yet?: Decoding the new maths of adulthood

(HT illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 17:38 IST

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