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Yearender 2025 in Books: What Arvind Subramanian, Naseeruddin Shah, Shashi Tharoor recommend

December 27, 2025 6:53 pm

Actors, Authors, Economists, Political Leaders tell us what they read and what made an impression

Inside Maria Goretti’s Goa home: Family recipes and a Christmas feast

December 27, 2025 9:55 am

At her restored 150-year-old Portuguese bungalow in Goa, the chef, TV host and former VJ, talks about food, traditional recipes and her culinary training

How Dhurandhar's repurposed qawwali with Pakistani origins engages with a shared cultural past, one the film ignores

December 27, 2025 7:02 am

Before Sahir Ludhianvi used it as inspiration, the original poem was penned by Sufi poet Ameer Bakhsh Sabri and composed by qawwal duo Ustad Fateh Ali and Ustad Mubarak Ali — Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s father and uncle.

Why the coconut palm is nature’s most useful tree

December 23, 2025 5:17 pm

The tree, whose USP is its nut, is a marvel of natural engineering that can survive gale-force winds and hurricanes

Travel within our shores

December 21, 2025 8:10 am

A trip through south India is bound to linger because its places don’t demand transformation; they allow it

Inside Joyce Arora’s kitchen: The home cook behind Bollywood’s favourite dishes

December 20, 2025 5:14 pm

Joyce's Christmas lunch is a bustling affair. She single-handedly cooks for over 40 people, with enough leftovers for friends and family to take home

Chasing Panettone: How a Christmas bread from Italy became a global obsession

December 24, 2025 5:02 pm

Baked with the right mix of candied fruit and stories, the crusty panettone is Italy’s reminder of everything Christmas

RSIFF 2025 brings powerful Palestine films, Bollywood stars and global filmmakers to Jeddah

December 20, 2025 7:38 am

In the fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), the festival honours storytellers and new talent from West Asia, with Bollywood throw in for good measure.

Why millions of birds migrate each winter—and how India becomes their refuge

December 19, 2025 12:57 pm

While many birds will splash down near Delhi's wetlands, so,e will fly further south, to places such as Pulicat lake and Point Calimere.

Woh Humsafar Tha: On endings, echoes, and the book that became my beginning

December 14, 2025 10:37 am

A song that has outlived countries, outlasted relationships, and out-reasoned reason itself.

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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