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The House that Gudda BuiltSubscriber Only
August 24, 2025 02:00 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
When Brad Pitt wore a ‘Made in India’ shirt: Meet Shani Himanshu who is acing contemporary fashion by reviving indigo and desi cottonSubscriber Only
August 24, 2025 08:51 IST
The designer, who was trained at Diesel, Italy, is now into R&D and is on the cusp of creating India's own denim brand
Kabir Khan at Expresso: ‘Saying you’re apolitical is the most political statement. It reeks of privilege’Subscriber Only
August 25, 2025 07:49 IST
At Expresso in Mumbai, director Kabir Khan and actor-producer Richa Chadha reflected on spending a decade in Bollywood, their big breaks, and being vocal about their political views.
Jungleland wishlist: What animals have, and humans wantSubscriber Only
August 21, 2025 11:04 IST
We’ve been grossly short-changed, but if we put on that sweet, inane smile the three-toed sloth wears, maybe Mother Nature will bestow us with her benediction
The Independence Day celebrations might be over. The responsibility has just begunSubscriber Only
August 17, 2025 01:00 IST
India, the oldest continuing civilisation, now the largest democracy in the world, is not great because she is perfect, but because she keeps working at her promise
A look at some epic challenges actor Chris Hemsworth undertakes on the new season of NatGeo’s LimitlessSubscriber Only
August 17, 2025 08:12 IST
In the latest season the Thor actor climbs a frozen 600-foot wall in the Swiss Alps and embraces Special Forces pain training in South Korea to discover how we can live longer, better lives.
Why the cast of ‘Saare Jahan Se Accha’ has the stage to thank for their roles on the screenSubscriber Only
August 17, 2025 08:18 IST
Actors Pratik Gandhi, Sunny Hinduja and Anup Soni on being part of the Netflix series, why it was an enriching experience and the historical characters they would like to portray
Depinder Chhibber, whose ghevar and raj kachori won hearts on MasterChef Australia, shares her New Delhi to Newcastle storySubscriber Only
August 17, 2025 08:12 IST
Chhibber first competed on MasterChef Australia in 2021 (Season 13), finishing seventh. This year, she was invited back for Season 17’s ‘Back to Win’, joining other past contenders
Ritu Kumar at 80: How she drew Indian fashion out of the colonial yoke by rescuing block prints and lost textilesSubscriber Only
August 17, 2025 08:31 IST
Ritu Kumar’s fashion story began under trees and with burnt wooden blocks. It has grown to become one of the country’s most respected labels. Now 80, she is writing a book on reclaiming lost textile traditions that laid the template for Indian couture
Independence Day Special: Writer and cartoonist Manjula Padmanabhan reimagines Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha through the eyes of a time-touring teenSubscriber Only
August 10, 2025 03:44 IST
The story follows a boy who travels back to the time of India's freedom struggle and discovers how the now ubiquitous salt drove the British out of India
Independence Day Special: Children’s author reimagines the accession of the princely states to India in times of social mediaSubscriber Only
August 10, 2025 03:44 IST
If Maniben, VP Menon and Sardar Patel were on social media
Independence Day Special: Author and environmentalist Ranjit Lal decodes how freedom has everything to do with loveSubscriber Only
August 10, 2025 03:06 IST
The little birds took off. 'Didn’t that give you a lovely feeling? Like you were taking off with them?'
This Independence Day, let India be the answer the world needsSubscriber Only
August 10, 2025 00:00 IST
Independence is not an inheritance. It is not static. It is daily. It demands care. And care requires clarity. If we are to rise, it cannot be by repeating slogans but by embodying their spirit
Independence Day Special: Filmmaker and animator Suresh Eriyat on how processions have been the theatre where freedom is performedSubscriber Only
August 9, 2025 12:06 IST
Freedom, when it arrived, wasn’t a firecracker burst. It was a slow, noisy, moving, dancing, grieving, singing thing
Meet Zarna Garg, the Indian-American comedian who turned Indian-aunty jokes into cultural currencySubscriber Only
August 11, 2025 16:25 IST
Zarna is a “culturally universal loudmouthed aunty doling out home-truth bombs” who has amassed a massive fan base, both online (over 1.5 million followers on Instagram) and offline
How Malegaon Ke Sholay’s crew of locals changed the way the iconic Dharmendra-Amitabh-starrer is seenSubscriber Only
August 10, 2025 13:30 IST
The success of Malegaon Ke Sholay catapulted Nasir Shaikh to national fame. His work inspired numerous documentaries, including Supermen of Malegaon, produced by Zoya Akhtar.
Past Melodies: A look-back at the music of Sholay and what continues to make it timelessSubscriber Only
August 10, 2025 07:36 IST
The Sholay soundtrack has also been smartly tailored — a seven-track album that’s the pulse of the film, holding it together, providing it with colour and texture.
Dancing Queen: Why the magic of Helen in ‘Mehbooba, mehbooba’ hasn’t faded with the yearsSubscriber Only
August 10, 2025 07:37 IST
'Mehbooba, mehbooba' is a song of misdirection; here the dance is a screen for other activity that moves the story forward.
Shazia Iqbal on directing Dhadak 2 as a Muslim woman: ‘Box-office collection is secondary to the opportunity to make the film’Subscriber Only
August 9, 2025 18:14 IST
Writer-director Shazia Iqbal, who made her feature debut with Dhadak 2, on why she is okay with the criticism over Siddhant Chaturvedi's tanning; why more filmmakers should embrace social relevance as part of mainstream storytelling; and how producer Karan Johar stood by the film's vision.
What we can learn from Jim Corbett on watching natureSubscriber Only
August 5, 2025 10:45 IST
Corbett had the incredible power of observation and the ability to describe a location or scene in such detail that it was like staring at a photograph of the place
Finding hope in the monsoon: When the sky breaks open, so do weSubscriber Only
August 4, 2025 17:06 IST
There’s a line in Kafan where the two grieving, indifferent men—father and son—sit outside a liquor shop, having spent the shroud money on drink. But Premchand leaves us with this question: Who decides what grief should look like, when the system itself is so cruel that the living envy the dead?
Javed Akhtar looks back at the Sholay script he wrote with Salim Khan: ‘Its dialogues are used in stand-up comedies even today’Subscriber Only
August 3, 2025 12:55 IST
Scriptwriter Javed Akhtar on why they were confident Sholay would be a hit despite the reviews, the enduring appeal of Gabbar and putting his money on the film that generated Rs 3 crore in 1975.
Fight for the sole: The Prada controversy may have put it in the spotlight but the Kolhapuri chappal carries the footprint of 800 years of historySubscriber Only
August 3, 2025 11:21 IST
The Indian Express visits Kolhapur's Chappal Galli and to factories and homes where entire families, from parents to children, work together on the chappals, where caste, fashion and history come home
What babies do in the animal kingdom, even when they know the end is nearSubscriber Only
July 30, 2025 06:00 IST
No little animal ever seems to just roll over and give up. All the while, it continues to fight valiantly in its corner
How Sonal Holland shortened the distance between Bombay Central and BordeauxSubscriber Only
July 27, 2025 02:00 IST
Sonal Holland, India’s first Master of Wine, shows how wine and life are both allegories. We are all products of our terroir, of the climate and culture that shape us
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