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Diva throwback: Five glamorous pictures of a young Neena Gupta

March 08, 2026 4:50 pm

Before she became a modern fashion icon, Neena Gupta was already redefining glamour in the 1980s!

Jammu & Kashmir Ranji team had beaten Mumbai at Wankhede in 2013-14 season. (PHOTO: Samiullah Beigh/Facebook)

When J&K nearly beat star-studded Delhi in Ranji: ‘Bedi Sir told us, Sehwag ho, Virat ho, Gambhir ho, never be afraid’

February 24, 2026 9:47 am

Set to face Karnataka in the final, Jammu and Kashmir has come a long way from their first-ever entry into the knockout stages of the Ranji trophy in 2013-14

What would a 'Museum of Innocence' look like in India? It would be the Godrej Almirah of Lost Time

February 20, 2026 5:01 pm

Orhan Pamuk’s museum is romantic and fevered. Ours would be tender and unspectacular. His is about obsession. Ours is about endurance

On the Internet, people are missing 2016. But who fixed this cut-off for nostalgia?

January 27, 2026 6:27 am

When a trend goes viral now, it's nearly impossible to tell: Is this organic? Did the algorithm push it? Did we choose this, or did it choose us?

The return of Oasis and an era of proto-influencers, fraternal feuds and an initiation into Western music

August 01, 2025 7:05 pm

The Gallaghers and Oasis drifted out of your mind, but it won’t be a long absence. They will flit into your consciousness again when you’re at a karaoke bar and someone puts on ‘Wonderwall’ prompting you, almost as a reflex, to take a deep breath before belting out the first verse

The message also emphasised that the villagers of Noida need to recognise that they are now part of a city. The urban sectors sit cheek by jowl with the villages (File Photo)

Noida at 50: An economic hub, an awkward social outlier

May 15, 2025 10:48 am

In this city of migrants, belonging and representation are foreign concepts. The city can be defined not only by new buildings and malls, but also by creating space for the personal to evolve into the cultural

At 95, he has learned how to use nostalgia

August 04, 2024 12:35 pm

Stan Herman, New York’s godfather of fashion, knows what makes life worth living for.

Kanwar yatra and the perils of nostalgic Hinduism

July 28, 2024 6:53 pm

Current reinvention of Hinduism — in terms of purity and impurity — owes a great deal to transformation in the cultures of nostalgia. It breaks the connection between actual conditions of life and its romanticised version, and those who are expected to take part in have no role in its propagation

In pre-liberalisation India, Camlin delivered a quiet reassurance about India’s own capability

July 25, 2024 10:47 am

It was not about any manufactured made-in-India nationalism. The allure of the foreign still ran strong. But there was something solid and dependable about it that made it a stalwart.