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Picture perfect: See more posters from Zubaan’s feminist archive

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 09:01 IST

This poster bears no words, just a heartfelt wish. It shows a woman reclining in a sari, her feet up on a stool, a book in her hands and a cathode-ray TV on its stand in front of her. A cup of tea sits at her side, and she wears a carefree smile. (Courtesy Poster Women)

Word on the street: Trace the story of India’s feminist movement through posters

Two women dance like no one’s watching. The slogan reads: “There are no paths… paths are made by walking.” (Above right) A many-armed woman struggles under the weight of unshared labour. (Zubaan Archives)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 06:30 IST

Closing the loop: See how Singapore is pushing for water self-sufficiency

MacRitchie reservoir is Singapore’s oldest catchment, completed in 1868 to address its water shortages. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 17, 2026 15:15 IST

H2... Whoa - The Wknd water special: Let the mighty Ganga tell our story

At the Gangotri Glacier, where the Ganga originates. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 12:40 IST

H2... Whoa: In a world of water bankruptcy, a look at where we stand

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT)

Updated on Apr 17, 2026 15:02 IST

The eyes have it: A Wknd chat with Sheeba Chadha, co-star of Riz Ahmed’s Bait

(Photo: Arjun Kamath Photography)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 06:29 IST

Surface tension: Simran Mangharam on love – and looks, status, class

SHOULD WE, SHOULDN’T WE?: In the award-winning videogame Florence (2018), a 25-year-old woman must decide whether to stay with the man she thinks she loves.

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 08:34 IST

Storm in a Cup?: Rudraneil Sengupta on FIFA, Trump and football

It’s a far cry from the ‘Football unites the world’ spirit of the 2022 World Cup. Above, crowds in South Africa, in 2010. (Getty Images)

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 08:03 IST

The World in a Phrase: Read an exlusive excerpt from a new book on aphorisms

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 08:01 IST

Terribly tiny truths: A new book traces the arc of the aphorism

An embroidered cotton kanga by South African artist Lawrence Lemaoana. (Image courtesy Lawrence Lemaoana)

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 07:54 IST

A sway with words: Sanjoy Narayan writes on talk-singing

Gil Scott-Heron, too often omitted from this lineage, belongs near the top of it. He established the form’s possibilities as social witness. (Getty Images)

Updated on Apr 10, 2026 15:35 IST

When you cannot march, you… sing?: What punk has meant to Asia

The Chinese band Brain Failure.

Updated on Apr 10, 2026 14:30 IST

50 years of punk: Sanjoy Narayan writes on a movement that changed the world

Punk gave the world Ramones, Nirvana, piercings, studded leather, safety-pin jewellery, and a reminder: rock and roll has always been for people with little to lose.

Updated on Apr 10, 2026 14:07 IST

Grim fairytales: See how Dutch artist Afra Eisma’s work fights to reclaim joy

Eisma at her studio in the Hague, with an art work titled hold heart jumping (2024). (Katherina Heil)

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 07:48 IST

Watch this pace: Is time really ‘slipping by’, asks Charles Assisi

One of British artist Antony Gormley’s life-sized sculptures on Crosby Beach, England. What is the passage of time but a mirror image of what we’re doing with it? (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 4, 2026 07:12 IST

The revolution will not be...: A look at how the mind navigates defiance

A Banksy mural in Paris shows a Napoleonic figure in a headscarf, in an art work inspired by the marginalisation of refugees and by an early-19th-century painting, by Jacques-Louis David, of Napoleon crossing the Alps. (Images: Getty, Shutterstock; HT Imaging)

Updated on Apr 4, 2026 07:10 IST

Easy as abc: See how friendslop is changing the world of gaming

In Roadside Research, aliens posing as humans must man a gas station.

Updated on Apr 4, 2026 07:03 IST

Ctrl-Alt-Deceit: Anja Shortland discusses major crimes, ransomware and you

(Photo: Urszula Soltys)

Updated on Apr 4, 2026 06:49 IST

Mischief managed: Deepanjana Pal writes on Riz Ahmed’s biting new series, Bait

Riz Ahmed and Guz Khan, who play cousins in Bait, have fantastic chemistry, and some of the best lines in the show.

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 16:16 IST

What really is late-stage? Welcome to era of Capitollism, says Kashyap Kompella

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 14:28 IST

Capitalism: A Global History: Read an excerpt from the new book by Sven Beckert

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 14:10 IST

Hidden charges: Sven Beckert discusses the surprising history of capitalism

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 14:15 IST

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

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