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The numbers game: Charles Assisi writes on our tussles with time

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 13:51 IST

An illusion is eventually just that. There is a truth we must all acknowledge in the end: The body keeps its own ledger. It updates itself without consulting the mind. (Shutterstock)

A swing and a prayer: Rudraneil Sengupta goes behind the scenes at a WPL auction

(HT Illustration)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 13:47 IST

It’s that term of the year: Our pick of the best viral words of 2025

Don’t say ‘Good lord’; try ‘alamak’.

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 13:36 IST

Batter and verse: In India, Christmas involves cake runs, kolam, folk songs

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via Midjourney)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 16:14 IST

Walking around Helsinki with Miles Davis: Download Central by Sanjoy Narayan

‘There are albums that become sonic companions, their architecture mirroring one’s surroundings. For me, in Helsinki, Davis’s A Tribute to Jack Johnson is that album.’

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 14:47 IST

Stealth management: Deepanjana Pal writes on Dhurandhar

Akshaye Khanna as the gangster Rehman Dakait, being carefree and dancing to the song Fa9la.

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 14:16 IST

The Web Beneath the Waves: Wknd chats with author of new book on undersea cables

‘We don’t realise that 95% of international data traffic goes through undersea cables. Stop to consider that, and the internet suddenly becomes something that’s extremely territorial, and vulnerable,’ Subramanian says.

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 08:57 IST

Why Raj Kapoor’s was a wonderful world: A tribute by Poonam Saxena

Raj Kapoor and Nargis in the song Pyar Hua Ikrar Hua from Shree 420 (1955).

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 13:02 IST

Air apparent: Swetha Sivakumar on the clever science behind air-fresheners

A really good air-freshener can do more than infuse a space and mask odours; it can target odour molecules too.

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 12:58 IST

Ready? Start again: Inside an archive of gaming magazines

Archived issues of the magazines Game Pro and PC Gamer, and a promotional flyer for Nintendo’s Donkey Kong.

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 12:57 IST

A rocky start: The riveting story of how Earth got its oxygen

Stromatolites at Shark Bay, Australia. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 12:52 IST

Tree rings, seabeds, even in the air: See where Earth stores its ‘memories’

(HT Illustration / Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 12:52 IST

State of play: A new book dives into the story of modern Karnataka

A yakshagana performance. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 12, 2025 15:25 IST

Ghost-Eye: Read an exclusive excerpt from Amitav Ghosh’s new novel

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 12:07 IST

‘The world is far stranger than we imagine’: A Wknd interview with Amitav Ghosh

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 12:04 IST

For better or worse, we’re a multiverse: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

René Magritte’s La Decalcomanie (1966): The various selves we could have been continue to shape us, through traces they leave behind and by their very absence too. (WikiArt)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 15:03 IST

Waves, witches? Get out of year!: New year traditions around the world

The witch-like La Bafana dates to Ancient Rome and legends of the huntress Diana. She is said to deliver gifts to children on January 5. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 15:00 IST

From pocket planetarium to giant dome, see how humans have reached for the stars

With its 115-ft-diameter dome, Japan’s Nagoya City planetarium, is the world’s largest. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 14:56 IST

Fly me to the moon...: See how planetariums have zoomed forward, in 100 years

A show at the ESO Supernova Planetarium in Germany, built in 2018 with a 360-degree dome. Shows today invite visitors to zip through galaxies, tour clouds of asteroids, and observe meteors as they approach. (ESO / P Horálek)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 14:48 IST

‘It’s felt like starting a band’: Behind the scenes of the new magazine, Equator

The founders of Equator hope to launch a print edition next year and meanwhile publish one or two pieces a week on the website. (Equator.org)

Updated on Nov 21, 2025 16:21 IST

‘Agra is me saying: This is who we are. It’s time to talk about this’: Kanu Behl

‘I’ve felt something of what the protagonist Guru feels,’ says Behl, 45. ‘There was a time when I felt crippled by my inability to express myself to the opposite sex.’

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 15:06 IST

What would it take for you to be happy?: Excerpts from Questions Without Answers

Compiled over four years, the book was crowdsourced via X, Reddit and parenting and childcare communities online. (Art from Questions Without Answers: Liana Finck; Text courtesy Sarah Manguso)

Updated on Nov 21, 2025 11:27 IST

Aww struck:A new book puts together some of the best questions asked by children

(Art from Questions Without Answers: Liana Finck; Text courtesy Sarah Manguso)

Updated on Nov 21, 2025 11:25 IST

Rate this U, for Uncomplicated: Deepanjana Pal on the Telugu film The Girlfriend

Mandanna plays Bhooma, whose first act of quiet rebellion is to enrol in college, which places her outside her domineering father’s reach.

Updated on Nov 21, 2025 09:37 IST

What is it like to be the last custodian of an ancient rite?

The last Inca bridge master rebuilds, each year, Peru’s last remaining bridge woven from grass. (Keiko Kuroshima)

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 11:40 IST

Twist and pout: Swetha Sivakumar on the history of lipstick

Red has, through the centuries, been a favourite shade.

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 11:42 IST

Game over?: Rudraneil Sengupta on the tragic decline of football in India

The way we were: Baichung Bhutia scores a third goal for East Bengal against Mohammedan Sporting in a National Football League (NFL) match at the Salt Lake stadium in 2004. (HT Archives)

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 11:38 IST

Word for word: See where carbon paper came from, and how it lives on

The cyclostyle machine was invented in the 1880s; it forced ink through a stencil to make copies. Carbon paper predates it by quite a bit. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 11:18 IST

Pasta, candy bars, soy: How war has shaped some of our favourite foods

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 14, 2025 14:47 IST

A moving feast: Recipes from Iraq, Syria, New Mexico

Updated on Nov 14, 2025 13:08 IST

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