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Fright club: Check out an archive that untangles India’s vibrant ghost stories

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 10:59 IST

In Jharkhand, there are tales told of a dowry ghost, a woman who died by suicide after running away from her wedding and her demanding groom-to-be. She now haunts wedding processions, seeking out grooms who behave as hers did. (HT illustration: Malay Karmakar)

Swish set: Swetha Sivakumar brushes up on nail polish

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 10:30 IST

New at the crease: Rudraneil Sengupta on 16-yr-old cricket wonder Deeya Yadav

Is she nervous, given that her only experience has been with her Under-16 and Under-19 Haryana state teams? “No…,” Yadav says, as if that’s an odd question.

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 10:28 IST

Soul survivors: Sanjoy Narayan on the magic of a retro music movement

The retro-soul movement is being led by bands such as Thee Sacred Souls, which emerged from the garage scene of San Diego.

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 03:49 IST

Burn rate: Can we pass a global law against ecocide, and would it help?

Retreating Iraqi forces set fire to over 600 Kuwaiti oil wells during the 1991 Gulf War. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 16, 2026 13:55 IST

Shadows on the bedroom wall: At home with Satyajit Ray

Ray with Ravi Shankar at a recording session for the music of his debut film, Pather Panchali (1955). (Wikimedia)

Updated on Jan 16, 2026 13:22 IST

Mastering the swirl: Celebrating the graphic art of Satyajit Ray

Early indications of Ray’s evocative use of light and shadow are visible in a print ad for Jabakusum, an Ayurvedic oil to treat hair fall.

Updated on Jan 16, 2026 13:05 IST

You gotta have fate: Charles Assisi on the invisible hand that shapes our lives

Manoj Bajpayee as the angel Dev works on his wings, in the film Jugnuma (2024).

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 15:49 IST

How the order half lives: Can micro-efficiencies improve your life?

(Imaging: HT; Images via Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 15:23 IST

A 10,000-year clock, a future library: Grand creative projects set in the future

Inside the Clock of the Long Now, being built in Texas. Designed to keep time for 10,000 years, its century hand will advance once every 100 years.

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 15:54 IST

Clone rangers: Meet the two Indians behind the world’s first self-cloning rice

Venkatesan Sundaresan and Imtiyaz Khanday. (Jael Mackendore/ UC Davis)

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 14:31 IST

The controlled chaos of Geese: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the rock quartet

Geese frontman Cameron Winter, 23, is the gravitational centre of the band. He has been compared to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 13:12 IST

A tribute to a mighty heart: Deepanjana Pal writes on Ikkis

Agastya Nanda plays Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, who was 21 when he refused to follow orders to retreat during the 1971 India-Pakistan war, eventually blocking a breakthrough for Pakistan. It was a victory for India that he and his tank’s radio operator, Sowar Nand Singh, paid for with their lives.

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 12:29 IST

Save as...: Why do women invest as they do, are there lessons in this for us?

NO WAY UP?: Women tend to find their savings stuck in a loop, in something akin to the Penrose stairs. Most of their money is held in more-liquid instruments such as gold and fixed deposits. Representation remains very low in high-growth instruments such as real-estate and business holdings and speculative instruments such as cryptocurrency, (HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 12:13 IST

Haul of fame: Could your home hold an artefact of national importance?

Matchboxes from the collection of Samirkumar Arya of Valsad, Gujarat.

Updated on Jan 4, 2026 04:34 IST

Sight, sound, smell, space: How humans have tracked time across millennia

Big Ben, completed in 1859, predates Greenwich Mean Time (agreed upon in 1884). (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:33 IST

Look ma, no hands: Rachel Lopez pays a visit to India’s atomic clocks

The atomic clocks are expensive, and need constant monitoring. But they are India’s pride, says Poonam Arora, head of the IST Metrology Division. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:29 IST

Tick talk: Rachel Lopez takes a trip through time, as IST turns 120

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:24 IST

Still in love with an old flame: Poonam Saxena writes on Sholay

Sholay: The Final Cut premieres in Bologna, Italy. (Film Heritage Foundation)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 13:21 IST

The prize is right: Looking forward to wins, in a football World Cup year

It would be great to see a new team – Portugal? – win. This will, after all, likely be Cristiano Ronaldo’s final Cup. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 12:53 IST

Smog and mirrors: A Wknd interview with an aerosol scientist and advisor to WHO

(Image courtesy Queensland University of Technology)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 11:39 IST

Can tech bring joy into classrooms?: Kashyap Kompella on AI

A still from the video for Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall (1979).

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 13:53 IST

Hot and code: Simran Mangharam writes on dating and AI, in 2025

In the Korean animated sci-fi film Lost in Starlight (2025), an aspiring astronaut pursues love amid a mission to Mars. No matter who or where we are, no matter the era or the hashtags, the quest tends to remain the same.

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 11:53 IST

The cracks that define us: Charles Assisi looks back on 2025

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942). There is no changing the solitary nature of our journey. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 11:51 IST

Tapping into a seam of gold: Sanjoy Narayan on the best tracks of ’75

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was ambition made audible; the sound of artists refusing to be confined even by the rules of rock.

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 10:55 IST

Swords drawn: K Narayanan on 2025 and the world of videogames

A still from Ghost of Yotei.

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 10:06 IST

A whirlwind food tour: Vir Sanghvi lists stellar restaurants of 2025

The pumpkin ricotta and black rice risotto at Sienna, Kolkata, which started out as a café above a shop.

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 08:18 IST

Big picture energy: Deepanjana Pal on the best things to watch, from across 2025

Created by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad, Pluribus is science-fiction at its most elegant.

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 09:30 IST

A time to reckon with the gods of our making: A year-end essay by R Sukumar

(HT Illustration)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 09:28 IST

Sleigh what? Weird and wonderful Christmas traditions from around the world

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via Midjourney)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 16:43 IST

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