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Why Urdu does not demand allegiance, only attention

February 05, 2026 5:56 pm

In a world tearing itself apart over who belongs, language offers us a chance to remember how not to fracture and that we are more alike than we are apart

Meet Chef Madhav Dayal, the Young Talent Redefining Konkani-Portuguese Food in Goa

February 07, 2026 11:00 am

Chef Madhav Dayal’s Goan epiphany to work and rest, in equal parts, is his recipe for success

How warblers can outdo rockstars and nightingales with their energy, passion and showmanship

February 05, 2026 6:09 pm

Old-World warblers, some 350 of them, seem to like wearing the same uniform – dusky olive brown, beige and grey -- which makes them a pain to identify

Twenty years later, we met ourselves again

February 01, 2026 11:46 am

At a school reunion in Delhi, time loosened its grip. Old selves resurfaced, secrets softened, and a generation stood on the edge of who it had become.

A ghazal is older than a nation

February 01, 2026 11:30 am

In an era when identity is increasingly policed, when language is weaponised, when even empathy is expected to declare allegiance, this performance refuses simplification.

Is MAGA an ideology or a political style? What Laura Field’s Furious Minds reveals

February 09, 2026 7:50 pm

Laura Field’s Furious Minds is a deeply brilliant, important, but ultimately disturbing account of a set of ideas that may place not only American democracy, but the wider world, at risk

Food as memory: Growing up with gulkand and dates in the afterlife of partition

January 31, 2026 3:13 pm

The more you age gulkand, the better the taste.

Raptors, silence and wide blue skies: A day on the Socorro plateau

January 31, 2026 2:58 pm

Birds here have been few and far between, but fewer the number, the better you see them.

'Vande Mataram and Jana Gana Mana are two different ideas of India': Carnatic classical vocalist TM Krishna on decoding India's national symbols in his new book

February 09, 2026 7:50 pm

In his new book, We, the People of India: Decoding a Nation’s Symbols (Westland), TM Krishna explains how India’s national symbols are metaphors for a nation’s struggles and aspirations.

Why 2026 may be India Art Fair’s most ambitious edition yet

January 31, 2026 10:14 am

From installations to collector initiatives, the India Art Fair foregrounds dialogue and collaboration

SUNDAY EYE PHOTOS

Ms Marvel to Minnal Murali: Superheroes closer home

July 16, 2022 4:27 pm

Not just Hollywood but many Indian superheroes have been among the audiences' favourites.

Saim Sadiq and Pakistan’s Moment in the Sun & India-Pak camaraderie

July 12, 2022 10:32 am

Saim Sadiq took seven years to make Joyland which is a cis-trans romance in a conservative family drama.

Sreelekha Mitra’s Hour of Glory

November 07, 2021 3:00 pm

By bringing Sreelekha Mitra centre stage in Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, director Aditya Vikram Sengupta has given the actor, in her more-than-two-decade career, a role of a lifetime.

The eye of a genius: The cinematic universe of Satyajit Ray

May 24, 2020 1:35 pm

Satyajit Ray was a quintessential humanist who used the camera with empathy to tell stories. Stories that capture the beauty and severity of life in rural Bengal, decaying feudalism, the struggles and aspirations of the Bengali middle class and its conflict with dogmatic religion. His films told stories in ways that only a humanist of his stature could.

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