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Hidden charges: Sven Beckert discusses the surprising history of capitalism

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 14:15 IST

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

When two wrongs make a wry: Poonam Saxena on the satirist Harishankar Parsai

Parsai wrote about the daily hardships of ordinary people, in tales such as Sadachar Ka Taweez, Matadeen on the Moon, Bholaram Ka Jeev and Desh Ke Is Daur Mein.

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 10:30 IST

Right on track: Around the world in fascinating metro stations

Levels crafted in glass and steel are linked by footbridges, balconies and escalators at Paris’s Villejuif-Gustave Roussy. Above it all, a 230-ft-wide cylindrical shaft covered in glass directs light all the way down. Designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture, the subway stop opened last year. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 12:10 IST

Metro morphosis: Is the subway station the new frontier of architecture?

At Paris’s Villejuif-Gustave Roussy, a 230-ft-wide cylindrical shaft topped with glass directs sunlight all the way down. (Dominique Perrault Architects)

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 12:09 IST

Wish you were here: Inside Unesco’s virtual museum of stolen cultural objects

The virtual museum unfolds along a spiral path, fanning out like a baobab tree. (Images: Studio Francis Kéré; museum.unesco.org)

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 08:39 IST

How to spread a jam: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the genius of Shabaka Hutchings

(@shabaka hutchings/instagram)

Updated on Mar 27, 2026 14:57 IST

What new legend will be born this year?: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on IPL 2026

Chennai Super Kings has signed the reigning king of big hitting, Sanju Samson, 31. (AFP)

Updated on Mar 27, 2026 14:27 IST

The good news is, the reins are in our hands: water researcher Kaveh Madani

‘I believe we can do things differently. No one anywhere is immune to this. So, it’s a matter of accepting reality, admitting mismanagement and going back to the drawing board,’ Madani says.

Updated on Mar 27, 2026 14:35 IST

Where the giants sleep: Join Raza Kazmi on a trail of elephant memorials

(HT Illustration: Malay Karmakar)

Updated on Mar 27, 2026 14:22 IST

I admire those who refuse to pay the ‘status tax’, says Charles Assisi

Matthew Macfadyen as the social climber Tom Wambsgans in Succession. It can take all one’s energy to live this way, fretting over fripperies and desperate to impress.

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 11:53 IST

Sneeze the day: Why cultures around the world dread the sniffles

In Japan, one sneeze signifies praise; two is criticism; three, disparagement. One can only imagine how the populace must suffer in allergy season. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 11:52 IST

Bot on earth?: Check out Gemini’s melodrama, Claude’s fibs, in an AI experiment

Who’s who? Spot Gemini the catastrophiser; Claude indulging in lavish self-praise (regardless of the results); and OpenAI’s easily distracted GPT-5 Thinking. (HT Illustrations via ChatGPT)

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 11:57 IST

Scar struck: First-responders talk about the anxiety, exhaustion, guilt

The 1995 Flateyri avalanche in Iceland. ‘It was one of my first assignments. I located the final victim,’ says Petur Gudmundsson, now a firefighter in Sweden.

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 11:47 IST

This is not a drill: Climate, grief and the changing world of first-responders

(Photos: Shutterstock; HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 12:05 IST

Rock n’ role: Deepanjana Pal writes on women and the Oscars

‘I want all the women in the room to stand up... I don’t get here without you,” said Autumn Durald Arka-paw, the first woman and first woman of colour to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography (for Sinners). (Reuters)

Updated on Mar 20, 2026 15:33 IST

Love at first deadlift: How weightlifting changed my life

Starting small, with deadlifts of 30 kg, it would be a year before felt a change, she says

Updated on Mar 20, 2026 13:01 IST

Home is where the hurt is: Talking to Palestinian-American writer Hannah Assadi

“In certain moods, my father would introduce himself as ‘the man without a country’ or ‘the man whose country was stolen from him’,” Assadi says.

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 11:59 IST

Paradiso 17: Read an excerpt from the new novel by Hannah Lillith Assadi

Updated on Mar 20, 2026 12:45 IST

Err apparent: The guilt trip can be devastating in a relationship

No one wins, in the end: In Malcolm & Marie (2021; starring Zendaya and JD Washington), baggage surfaces in a fight that stretches on, with damage done and no clear resolution.

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 11:10 IST

One in a melon: A plant breeder’s 48-year love affair with gourds

At the World Vegetable Center in Thailand. The cucurbit group of vegetables holds the key to a good life, Dhillon says.

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 11:08 IST

India’s pace-keeping force: Is Jasprit Bumrah the best fast-bowler of all time?

As former South African captain Faf du Plessis put it: ‘You just give him the ball and he wins you games... It’s like having a genie. You just rub the lamp and out comes Bumrah.’ (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 11:02 IST

Float like a butterfly: See dramatic early aerial photographs by Alfred Buckham

A photo titled Sunshine and Showers from 1920, captured by Buckham. Read on for more on how how composed his images, using bits drawn from other negatives in the same real. (National Galleries of Scotland)

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 10:47 IST

Meet the daredevil who captured some of the world’s first aerial photographs

Buckham in 1918. As a Royal Air Force pilot, he survived nine crash landings during World War 1, and went on to fearlessly shoot volcanoes, castles and more. (Collection of Richard and John Buckham)

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 10:40 IST

The X Files: See how black money distorts our sense of wealth, earnings and self

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Mar 13, 2026 12:09 IST

Putting the rock in Ragnarok: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Nordic blues

Every country here has its legendary acts. Iceland’s Kaleo is four childhood friends from a town near Reykjavík who bonded over American music, recorded an album in Nashville, and went double-platinum in the US in 2016.

Updated on Mar 13, 2026 12:01 IST

A Guardian and A Thief: An excerpt from a new dystopian novel by Megha Majumdar

Updated on Mar 13, 2026 07:44 IST

A dystopic Kolkata fast running out of food: Megha Majumdar on her new book

(Marco Giugliarelli / Civitella Ranieri Foundation)

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 09:48 IST

Signature ’toons: The claymation studio behind Wallace & Gromit turns 50

A still from Robin Robin (2021), in which a robin is raised by a family of mice.

Updated on Mar 7, 2026 14:39 IST

Grit expectations: Why do we worship the myth of the self-made person?

The Sheltered Path (1873) by Claude Monet. ‘I chose my steps. But I did not build the road. Failing to acknowledge this distorts how we view others ,’ Assisi says. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Mar 7, 2026 14:00 IST

Meet a nun, a farmer, other outliers showing art at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Sister Roswin, 35, born Malu Joy, is showing 30 drawings, eight small terracotta busts, and two large sculptural installations, most of which feature older nuns. (Photos via the artists: Kochi Biennale Foundation; Dhamini Ratnam / HT)

Updated on Mar 7, 2026 13:44 IST

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