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WhatsApp Uncle discovers the downside of social distancingSubscriber Only
March 27, 2020 19:56 IST
The only good thing that has happened is concern for vulnerable, old people, he says.
In words we trustSubscriber Only
March 27, 2020 19:36 IST
Poets, writers and graphic novelists offer a reading list for the difficult days of the lockdown.
How to introduce children to birdwatchingSubscriber Only
March 27, 2020 19:15 IST
Always do it with experts, but prepare for some confusion and questions you can’t answer
Why COVID-19 pandemic may change how we view individual rightsSubscriber Only
March 27, 2020 18:10 IST
In the face of crisis, which calls for rapid response, democratic process ceases to be a virtue
Why Kolkatans Love Sipping History at ParamountSubscriber Only
March 28, 2020 09:43 IST
The enduring charm of the 102-year-old sherbet maker in the City of Joy
Sunday Long Reads: Films, social distancing, COVID-19, food, nature, and moreSubscriber Only
March 22, 2020 11:27 IST
Here is your Sunday reading list.
Did we bring COVID-19 on us?Subscriber Only
March 22, 2020 10:57 IST
As coronovirus rampages through the world, an animal kingdom representative says the epidemic is ‘poetic justice’ and presents a charter of demands for a likely truce — ‘leave us and our habitats alone, stop pumping noxious gases into the air’ etc — and issues a warning: ‘Destroy us and destroy yourself’.
What Satyajit Ray’s Ghare Baire tells us about our age of aggressive nationalismSubscriber Only
March 22, 2020 10:30 IST
India is Bimala, the film’s female protagonist, much as Tagore had intended and Ray had visualised — caught between two opposing ideologies. Like in Ghare Baire, there is a clear choice between the painstaking work of inclusive progress which is often slow; and decisive but divisive action that has catastrophic consequences for a pluralistic society.
Inimitable IrrfanSubscriber Only
March 22, 2020 11:56 IST
As his new film Angrezi Medium releases, a look at how Irrfan has time and again stepped into his characters like a chameleon, wearing them like second skin, to play a thief and an addict, good cop and bad, a lout, a Casanova, a killer, a gangster and by far the most layered lover
A glimpse into the world of Mehlli Gobhai whose works held many secretsSubscriber Only
March 22, 2020 06:30 IST
The artist’s first retrospective, spanning 70 years of his art, is on at Mumbai’s NGMA, curated by art critics Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania. The show underlines how Gobhai didn’t like the ‘seduction’ of colours and went on to be best known for his abstract paintings in earthy shades — grey or brown
Dibakar Banerjee: ‘You can’t walk into the world of filmmaking with a fragile heart’Subscriber Only
March 22, 2020 06:30 IST
The writer-director on learning patience through filmmaking, and exploring gender and class in his new film, Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, starring Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor, that explores the relationship between the two protagonists without the usual, run-of-the-mill romantic tropes.
Books on epidemics, pandemics and other health crisesSubscriber Only
March 21, 2020 18:30 IST
Three books, both fiction and non-fiction, that look at deadly diseases and how science ultimately got the better of them, but not before considerable human cost.
How a Bhopal-based publisher is changing the rules of children’s literature in HindiSubscriber Only
March 21, 2020 18:15 IST
Ektara, founded by Hindi poet and editor Sushil Shukla and Shashi Sablok, publishes Hindi books, creates posters and brings out two magazines for children, Pluto and Cycle, treats kids as equals and speaks to them about almost everything — poetry and nature, art and atheism, science and sexuality
How COVID-19 makes us reimagine our workspaces and the way we workSubscriber Only
March 21, 2020 17:15 IST
The coronavirus has taught us to split teams, work in shifts or work from home. Office layouts, too, have changed. Architects gear up to implement design ideas that may actually make for more efficient use of space
Why the Shaheen Bagh dadis remind me of my grandmothersSubscriber Only
March 20, 2020 19:40 IST
My grandmothers, Dida and Thakuma, were pushed to be great women, in different ways. Today, the women at Shaheen Bagh face, in some ways, as grim a political circumstance that Thakuma did. But they are heroes also because they are, each of them, an incarnation of my Dida.
Social distancing: Time to find enduring ways of being togetherSubscriber Only
March 20, 2020 17:30 IST
The phrase of the season in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic might very well become the phrase of the year. To curb community spread and our individual well-being, we must find meaningful ways of getting socially distant
On the irresistible charms of chhole bhatureSubscriber Only
March 20, 2020 17:30 IST
My determination to desist from deep-fried food faces an almost daily challenge from the golden bhatures that appear in every halwai shop in the neighbourhood and the sight of chhole brings memories of spices exploding into my mouth.
Isolation Words: Pandemics are the petri-dish for fictionSubscriber Only
March 21, 2020 16:22 IST
A look at how the breakdown of bonds and the betrayal of bodies allow writers to take an X-ray of the body politic
Sunday Long Reads: Of theatre, novel coronavirus, Korean pop culture, films, travel, fashion, and moreSubscriber Only
March 15, 2020 11:25 IST
Here is your Sunday reading list.
Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Smriti Mundhra on how she made St Louis SupermanSubscriber Only
March 15, 2020 08:30 IST
“Out of 100 films, 10 are picked. When that happened, I thought this is it, I can put that in my CV for the rest of my life”.
How the Chinese are coping with being in quarantineSubscriber Only
March 15, 2020 16:51 IST
From learning to cook and playing indoor badminton to reading statistic to their cats, the Chinese are finding ways to pass time at home
Geetika Vidya Ohlyan: “How can one not be political in their choices?”Subscriber Only
March 15, 2020 07:45 IST
The Thappad actor on being script-driven, her political choices and her disdain for glamour
Why does Lake Tahoe in California, US, never freeze?Subscriber Only
March 15, 2020 20:02 IST
The desert around it freezes, but various factors keep Lake Tahoe itself from freezing.
The Actual Shafi ShauqSubscriber Only
March 15, 2020 07:20 IST
The India we now live in has prompted a new short story by Amit Chaudhuri. Whether it's fiction or some other kind of truth is for the reader to decide.
Why young Marathi director Suraj Parasnis’ plays are drawing the young to the theatreSubscriber Only
March 15, 2020 08:10 IST
Parasnis belongs to a crop of young theatre practitioners of Pune who are drawing hundreds of students.
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