From watching frogs heady in chlorinated swimming pools to hosting cannibalistic lunches for little creatures, there's always a history to be discovered

As chefs turn up the heat on millet makeovers, it’s yet to find its culinary feet across geographies. Can we change years of habit and comfort with our other staples like rice and wheat?

There's a deep sense of gratitude for the lessons of accepting the bad as readily as the good and the ability to create when feeling broken

What would a rainforest sound like when it hears the bulldozers approach? It won’t be long before we might break the animal and plant kingdoms’ enigma codes. Just what might one hear?

In I Named My Sister Silence, which is shortlisted for this year’s JCB Prize for literature, Rupda introduces multiple strands on social injustice — to not always satisfying ends

The unusual joys and sorrows of raising a caterpillar

A wolfish dog that made his place in the family permanently

The community of boys in a boarding school that grew around an adopted rat

Here are this week's most interesting reads!

Chefs Ranveer Brar and Manish Mehrotra and food writer Saee Koranne-Khandekar share their favourite Diwali recipes

Patel, who passed away last week, was never a flashy collector of identities. He polished, crafted and worked only when he was seized by ‘inner necessity’

Charles Darwin discovered finches in Galapagos, Jane Goodall fell in love with chimpanzees and Salim Ali became the 'birdman' of India

Appalled by the communal discord in the 1920s, Premchand had transformed this seventh-century event into a national allegory

Is Chandler's irony and satire a coping mechanism for India's Gen Z audience? A look at how Matthew Perry's sense of humour left behind a legacy of rehabilitation and hope

The Kannada classic is the story of two Brahmin families grappling with the complexities of life in India after Independence

In the changing landscape of central Delhi lie stories of previous regimes shaping the meaning of the Capital and capturing the imagination of a people

I am what I am but what I hope never to be is a man too young to be smartly wise

Has the competition for property and food got so fierce the larger birds have simply pushed out the smaller ones?

On Gandhi Jayanti, looking at Gandhi beyond nationalism and political consciousness

What will be, will be — this is the mantra that stares me in the face whenever I am confronted with dire circumstances

His experiments with food and fasting were as much a science as a way of life

The animation film celebrates women through Sultana’s Dream, a story of Bengali writer-activist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

It’s said that if you knock politely, on the trunk of a tree housing the spotted owlet, it will come to the door and check if you are delivering the bandicoot it ordered from Amazon

In Firefly Memories, each poem is lit from within, powered by recollections from the vast canvas of the past — Ray’s own and that of all humanity — bringing with them little spots of illumination, much like fireflies on a dark night