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Ranveer Brar on growing up in Lucknow and keeping healthy during DiwaliSubscriber Only

November 12, 2023 22:29 IST

How ghee lamps cleaned the air, millets made us lighter, and the atta-gud-ghee synthesis became a potent carrier of memories

suvir saran

Why Diwali is an annual date with ourselves and the worldSubscriber Only

November 11, 2023 10:38 IST

It’s a time when we pause to appreciate the world at large and when we see everything we wish to cherish and preserve for ourselves and those who come after us

diwali sweets

Three recipes from popular chefs for your Diwali menuSubscriber Only

November 12, 2023 11:11 IST

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

Gieve Patel

Remembering Gieve Patel: Poet, painter, playwright, translator, doctorSubscriber Only

November 9, 2023 09:47 IST

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’

salim ali

What are the rewards of staying curiousSubscriber Only

November 8, 2023 15:13 IST

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

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm’s The Secret of More

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm’s The Secret of More is a homage to the bildungsromanSubscriber Only

November 7, 2023 18:57 IST

The novel won the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction this year and it is also on the shortlist of JCB Prize for Literature. It is easy to see why. It creates a world that is hard to resist, populated with characters whose insecurities and flaws, joys and triumphs, the reader can easily identify with

A Ramachandran sculptures

What makes artist A Ramachandran an artist who can provoke and yet shine light into the darkest cornersSubscriber Only

November 5, 2023 10:42 IST

As a retrospective of his sculptures is held in the Capital, A Ramachandran, 88, talks about his days at Santiniketan, finding images in the words of Dostoevsky and why his canvas changed from the dark to the lyrical

bay of blood

Krishnendu Bose’s Bay of Blood recounts carnage of Pakistan’s Operation Searchlight on BangladeshSubscriber Only

November 4, 2023 18:35 IST

The documentary traces how the Pakistani Armed Forces, under the command of the then-President General Yahya Khan, initiated Operation Searchlight in March 1971, a campaign of torture killings and rape to erase Bengali resistance.

trespassers collective

At Art Mumbai, watch out for this Kerala art collective that’s transforming India’s public spacesSubscriber Only

November 7, 2023 15:13 IST

The group 'Trespassers' is using Indian streets as their gallery to show how art is for everyone

Assassin (2023) by KR Meera

KR Meera’s Assassin seeks to respond to the socio-political realities of contemporary IndiaSubscriber Only

November 3, 2023 06:00 IST

Set against demonetisation, the novel is the writer's "experiment with the Indian political truth”

But surely Chandler’s brand of humour cannot be laid claim to by just Gen Z

How Chandler’s sarcasm spoke to Gen ZSubscriber Only

November 2, 2023 17:38 IST

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

Yamuna Biodiversity Park, Professor CR Babu, Delhi biodiversity parks, Environmental restoration in Delhi, Deep water body at Yamuna Biodiversity Park, Birdwatching at Yamuna Biodiversity Park, Observing bird species

Why a book prototype on the seven biodiversity parks of Delhi is importantSubscriber Only

November 1, 2023 16:59 IST

The book has explanations on how different ecosystems work, how everything in nature is connected and how the circle of life goes on

suvir saran

What it takes to be vulnerableSubscriber Only

October 30, 2023 08:41 IST

Every day I remind myself of my childhood fears so that I can be gracious with those who are also defenseless

Leesa Gazi

‘Women I met in Bangladesh are pivotal to my journey. This is their story’: Bangladeshi filmmaker Leesa Gazi on Barir Naam ShahanaSubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:26 IST

Set in the '90s, British-Bangladeshi director Leesa Gazi's debut feature A House Named Shahana traces the life of a small-town woman who opts for a divorce, higher studies and lives life on her own terms.

Roshan Mathew, Darshana Rajendran- Paradise

‘My task is to seek the truth about society as well as myself’: Sri Lankan writer-director Prasanna VithanageSubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:26 IST

Sri Lankan writer-director Prasanna Vithanage shares insight into challenges of making films in his home country and why he is lucky to have Indian collaborators.

Chittaranjan Tripathy- NSD

‘NSD has a great legacy. We have to take it to a different level; think musicals’: Chittaranjan TripathySubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:25 IST

National School of Drama’s new director Chittaranjan Tripathy on his most challenging role and using humour as a tool for life.

sunday eye aatam

‘Writing a progressive story is easier than being truly progressive in life’: Aattam director Anand EkarshiSubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:25 IST

Debutant writer-director Anand Ekarshi on the making of his Malayalam film Aattam, working with theatre actors and seeking audience participation.

For the longest time in fact, The Bookworm, Hanoi was the only English-language bookstore in the city. (Photo: Arunima Mazumdar)

What bookstore hopping in Hanoi revealsSubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:30 IST

Though culture and languages differ in different countries, one thing remains the same – spaces that are home to books

Ladakh got its first open synthetic track and football turf at Spituk stadium, under the Khelo India Programme (Photo courtesy: Sidharth Singh)

What’s it like to run in one of the highest-altitude distance races on earthSubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:30 IST

While the Ladakh Marathon is not for the faint-hearted, it also is a holistic and culturally enriching experience for runners

animal communication, ranjit lal

What animals have that humans lackSubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:30 IST

They may sense an electrical field, sniff out odours better and pin down the faintest rustle several meters away – their sensorial toolkit is way sharper than ours

delhi history power

What has kept the aura of power around Delhi for centuriesSubscriber Only

October 29, 2023 10:30 IST

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

mona singh

‘Everyone in my building was watching Jassi but no one knew that I lived there’: Mona SinghSubscriber Only

October 20, 2023 07:00 IST

After a career spanning two decades, actor Mona Singh is enjoying the phase of playing meaty and nuanced roles in web shows.

Now that Paris is almost his second home, Mishra uses his spare time to visit museums to see the originals that inspired him

When designer Rahul Mishra walked into Picasso’s favourite bookshop in ParisSubscriber Only

October 20, 2023 06:00 IST

Couturier Rahul Mishra on his French connection, finding hidden textile histories and reliving the Van Gogh experience

bats

Bats can help us devise better gadgets for people with visual impairmentSubscriber Only

October 18, 2023 18:13 IST

Even the brains of the biggest bats cannot be very large, but their computing power is truly stupendous as they home in on their targets with more precision than a heat-seeking laser-guided missile

Dhaakis Ritu Saha and Anjali Das in New Delhi

Durga Puja: From priesthood to playing the dhaak, women leading from the front tell their storiesSubscriber Only

November 2, 2023 17:40 IST

By choosing to take up roles dominated by men, dhaakis Rita Saha and Anjali Das, and Nandini Bhowmik as a priest, challenge long-held gender and casteist norms

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