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Chef Hemant Oberoi with wife Malika in the kitchen of their Parel home in Mumbai
November 9, 2025 17:16 IST

At just 19, Oberoi joined The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, as a trainee, earning Rs 150 a month. By 31, he was an executive chef

A tiger on the prowl
November 4, 2025 17:48 IST

In most cases, the reportage of the man-animal conflict often glosses over the fact that the root cause is humans themselves

Amir Khusrau song
November 2, 2025 09:09 IST

Kahe ko byaahe bides from Umrao Jaan is a song of love and longing that echoes the pain of exile

Sultanpur jheel on a winter morning (Photo by Ranjit Lal)
October 29, 2025 21:19 IST

A look at how human recklessness has cost India the joy of its characteristic seasons

Chetan Bhagat
January 2, 2026 19:01 IST

The novel ends up reinforcing the very stereotypes it claims to challenge

Peacemaker is the biography of U Thant
October 27, 2025 19:55 IST

Peacemaker, a new biography by Thant Myint-U, revives the story of how the forgotten Secretary-General U Thant gave the UN its rare moral authority.

A tree can only be as strong as the forest that surrounds it
October 17, 2025 17:30 IST

My hope and faith is that if we have to bring about a social change, then the future of mental health is not in the clinics but in the schools, colleges and in the community

Discover the true spirit of Diwali through the ritual of cooking and sharing
October 20, 2025 07:13 IST

In our kitchen, occasions overlapped, flavours mingled and every dish told a story of coexistence.

Diwali rangoli
October 21, 2025 07:54 IST

Diyas basking in the October sun, a T-Rex shaped rangoli and recalling recipes from the past. The many ways to celebrate, hope and heal

dragonfly
October 13, 2025 12:32 IST

Dragonflies spend 90 per cent of their lives as ‘nymphs’, living at the bottom of murky ponds and looking like ghouls that terrify small fish and tadpoles

Amrita Shah's book The Other Mohan
October 22, 2025 10:58 IST

Amrita Shah’s moving biography of her great-grandfather, Mohanlal Killavala, explores silences, erasure, and memory across the Indian Ocean

fibre in food
October 4, 2025 21:44 IST

Often overlooked in our quest for superfoods, the fibre is having a moment. Nutritionists and chefs are designing diets rich in this nutrient that can protect your gut, heart and brain

Goa
October 6, 2025 12:17 IST

From the salt pans of Pernem and the ecology of the Western Ghats to sand bubbler crabs, there's more to Goa than beach parties and resorts

is river alive
October 8, 2025 12:17 IST

At the core of the book is Macfarlane’s contention that if a river is alive, laws, politics and, most significantly, our perceptions, must change

loudmouths
September 26, 2025 15:06 IST

From sparrows and mynas to bulbuls, babblers and parakeets – they can set up one hell of a racket as they discuss the day’s business

suvir saran
September 20, 2025 09:04 IST

Poet Muztar Khairabadi may not be a household name but in an age of noise and neglect, his works remind us that presence matters more than praise

Nuru Karim
September 13, 2025 10:23 IST

The Mumbai-based architect talks about why he chose bamboo to design the airport in Guwahati, what advocacy means for Indian architects and how working with water can transform Mumbai

climate change
September 10, 2025 10:53 IST

We are being told fossil fuels are good and that climate change was just the result of an overheated imagination

The Scarlet Lady: Eclectus Parrot bird
September 6, 2025 08:40 IST

In the painted snipe, a water bird, the lady sports snazzy white straps and kathakali dancer-like face make-up. Her husband looks similar but as though he’s been given a good rubbing down with a pencil eraser

The global womenswear couture line by Shantnu-Nikhil
September 1, 2025 15:48 IST

‘Both of us took time to decide on a lookbook because we wanted womenswear to feel distinct, not an extension of what we already do,’ say designers

It seems like a silly thing to state, but it is bewildering how much we expect children to behave like adults.
August 29, 2025 18:09 IST

Forest approach to parenting is about celebrating diversity so that each child is accepted as they are and not hothoused for perfection and performance

Whether in Bombay’s roar, Nagpur’s sundal, Delhi’s song, or Pune’s percussion, Ganesh has remained the same: a god who insists on beginnings, who makes no threshold impossible
August 31, 2025 08:18 IST

When Bal Gangadhar Tilak transformed Ganesh Chaturthi into a public festival, it was not to divide but to unite — to give people a shared purpose, to teach a city to breathe in chorus.

Atul Tyeb
August 30, 2025 11:36 IST

One of India’s foremost modernists, Mehta painted the silence and anguish of the human soul

A still from Shweta Bhattad's 'Do Glorified Rape Scenes in Movies Inspire you to Rape?'
September 1, 2025 09:06 IST

Performance art is having its ‘golden moment’ in India and beyond, with an emerging dynamic collector base

The collection didn’t just look like Gudda’s work— it felt like what Gudda would be doing now (Credit: Suvir Saran)
August 22, 2025 19:05 IST

The Kash-Gul show, from Rohit Bal Design, at the Couture Week, was proof that a brand, when built with soul, does not die with the master. It evolves, it flourishes

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