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The woods are lovely... and we now know more about why

Updated on Feb 28, 2026 09:22 IST

A sketch of the Qilian juniper growing in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. The ancient tree, over 2,000 years old, is a symbol of undying love and resilience in local folk tales and songs. (Blaze Cyan / In the Circle of Ancient Trees)

Sweet Excess: Read an excerpt from a new book on mishti by Ishita Dey

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 12:39 IST

Sweeter than history: A new book traces the journeys of Bengal’s mishti

These concoction have such an elevated status in West Bengal that some, such as the tatwa mishti or wedding sweets, form part of the wedding trousseau. (Above) A platter of mishti made to resemble a woollen shawl. (Courtesy Jalbhara Surjya Kumar Modak)

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 12:38 IST

Mine craft: Inside the rush for in-space manufacturing

Could in-space manufacturing potentially help build habitation and other infrastructure on the moon? (Via Google Gemini)

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 10:33 IST

Roles with the punches: Wknd interviews actor Mona Singh

‘Jassi taught me that the audience will follow you if they believe in your work,’ says Singh.

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 09:48 IST

Sweat equity: Charles Assisi on finding joy in the physical world

Tom Hanks shares his passion for collecting typewriters in the 2016 documentary, California Typewriter.

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 10:51 IST

Glance encounter: Adam Jacot de Boinod on how the world sees the evil eye

A Tibetan evil-eye mask to protect homes from ill-fortune.

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 10:54 IST

Think outside the bot: Indiscriminate use of AI may cause ‘cognitive debt’

. (HT Imaging; Adobe Stock)

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 10:32 IST

Mist opportunity: Deepanjana Pal on Kohrra season 2

Compelling as it is, Kohrra 2 relies on the actors to elevate the writing. Mona Singh and Barun Sobti in a still from the show.

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 10:44 IST

Live aid: What happens to a concert when fans track the setlist?

With just a few clicks on Setlist.fm, one can see what Taylor Swift’s Eras songlists have looked like, over the course of that juggernaut of a tour. For each artist, there’s also analysis: set length, oft-performed songs and average concert start time. (Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 10:30 IST

Ski you at the finish line: Kunal Pradhan on Winter Olympics

Austria's Benjamin Karl in the finale of the men’s parallel giant slalom at Milano Cortina 2026 in Livigno. (AP)

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 14:41 IST

Bot else is new?: How CAPTCHA is training AI, reading ancient texts

Each time we click on a grid of images to identify parts of fire hydrants, bicycles or traffic signals, we are contributing to massive datasets.

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 14:34 IST

CAPTCHA games: Slay imps, monitor stocks to prove you are human

There’s a kind of CAPTCHA in which the user plays Doom to pass the bot check. The premise is simple: kill three enemies.

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 14:36 IST

Proof of life: How CAPTCHA changed the internet

(HT Imaging: Rahul Pakarath via ChatGPT)

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 14:33 IST

Taking her shot: A Wknd chat with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir

“I think representation is incredibly important on film. It’s important to have it particularly in documentaries because this format, in many ways, started out as a colonial exercise,” Gandbhir says. (Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 14:21 IST

Know hard feelings: Simran Mangharam writes on embracing one’s wants

What don’t you want anymore? That’s a good question to ask too. It's a question the young Inuk mother Siaja explores to great effect, in the Netflix series North of North (2025).

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:17 IST

Arresting images: An ex-cop turns back time with his photographs

Shivaraju and his mother Gowramma pose as characters from the Ramayana.

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 18:45 IST

In photos: Artefacts from 1,000 years of samurai history

A still from the 2003 film When the Last Sword is Drawn. Many of the apocryphal legends about samurai were created, interestingly, by samurai.

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:09 IST

Cracks in the code : How much do we really know about the samurai?

A suit of armour from 1696, designed to make the wearer identifiable to comrades, and fearsome to the enemy. (British Museum)

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:05 IST

In photos: Iconic cats in art and popular culture

A still from the Oscar-winning animated film Flow (2024), about a cat in a post-apocalyptic world.

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:00 IST

Playing for Italy, Canada, Ireland, UAE, meet the young stars of T20 cricket

Yuvraj Samra of Canada, named after Yuvraj Singh, his father’s favourite cricketer, bats during a warm-up match with Italy in Chennai. (ICC via Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:02 IST

Brave mew world: Be the cat, in videogames

Night in the Woods, in which a young cat returns to a dying American town after dropping out of college, won the British Game Academy award for best narrative game in 2018.

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 13:54 IST

Settling scores: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the audacious music of Fargo

Chris Rock plays gang leader Loy Cannon in 1950s Kansas City, in Season 4. The soundtrack serves as a socio-political map, a collision of the sophisticated and the raw.

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 10:20 IST

Locked in the volt: Does the future of AI hinge on nuclear power?

A coal-fired power plant in Virginia. Data centres accounted for roughly 1.5% of global power demand in 2024. This could more than double by 2030. AI is the fastest-growing slice of total data-centre load. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 09:41 IST

Home truths: Bafta-nominated director of Boong discusses her tale about Manipur

Since 2023, when the film was made, members of her crew, including her 12-year-old lead actor’s family, have had to move to relief camps, Devi says. (Getty Images for IMDb)

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 07:16 IST

The devil is in the compromise: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

It isn’t that the first shift damns you; it’s that the second takes far less effort. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 10:38 IST

Yore’s sincerely: Decoding the origin of handsome, pittance, shambles

For something to technically be a shambles, it would need to be covered somewhat in slaughtered meat! Even the Shambles aren’t a shambles any more. Above, stores line a street in York where butchers once displayed meat on “fleshammels” or “flesh shelves”, which is where we get the term. (Wikinedia)

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 10:29 IST

See you swoon?: Deepanjana Pal on plot tangles, Bridgerton and Heated Rivalry

In some ways, Heated Rivalry (2025) is beating Bridgerton at its own game. It has the elaborate intimacy scenes, and doesn’t lose track of the plot.

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 10:12 IST

Floating cities, shrunken rivers: World-building is taking off in Indian cinema

The Complex, the floating inverted pyramid home to the elite, in the complex imagined world of Kalki 2898 AD.

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 10:10 IST

Party of one: A new anthology explores the many shapes of solitude

“Our goal was to show that this emotion is rooted in the social, cultural and political,” says editor Semeen Ali. “It is shaped by the structures of the very world we live in.”

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 10:16 IST

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