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Manu Parekh: The artist’s corner

Painter Manu Parekh, who has just turned 80, on faith, flowers and his unwavering admiration for Varanasi

Granules of Mauritian history

Before Mauritius became known as a tourist hotspot, sugar cane was its bread and butter. A museum tells the complex story of sugar

The Irishman: Scorsese ends a genre

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’, a treatise on mortality, ageing and the loss of loved ones, is his finest film in more than a decade

Buy less, think more: The growing clamour for mindful clothing

All eyes are on the fashion industry, not for the latest trends and collections, but for its increasingly problematic record as a major polluter and irresponsible employer. A growing number of young buyers may be willing to pay more for clothing that is ethically and sustainably produced, but is the industry geared to make the shift?

An abrupt flight to Sambhar

Why have 20,000 migratory birds dropped dead at India’s largest inland salt water lake? The Rajasthan government and wildlife authorities are shooting in the dark to contain the outbreak of avian botulism

Thanjavur’s Chola mystery

An ordinary Shiva temple in a small village of Tamil Nadu finds itself in the limelight amid claims that it is the final resting place of the mighty Chola emperor Raja Raja

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Finding Kabir in Banaras

A music festival unlocks a quest for the mystic poet in the alleys of the sacred city

multiverse Making the right impression with ancient seals

Making the right impression with ancient seals

Walk on a sandy beach or a silted riverbed barefoot and you’ll leave behind intricate footprints. Take a mound of moist clay and press your fingers ...

Dressing up the era

Sujata Assomull and Aparna Ram’s book ‘100 Iconic Bollywood Costumes’ is a deep dive into how the designs for female leads negotiate with the morals of the day

Here, There & Elsewhere Water works

Thursday afternoon, the phone rings. It’s the landlord. “Majoola,” he says, “hullo!” He’s unable to say my name correctly. But I don’t care because ...

Quiz on albums

On November 30, 37 years ago, Michael Jackson’s Thriller was released, which went on to become the bestselling album in history. This is a quiz on ...

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY One night at the campus...

How a police raid, 20 years ago, changed the meaning of politics for a JNU student

ECO-LATTE Playing for high stakes

There’s a lot riding on the outcome of the Narendra Modi government’s decision to disinvest in five PSUs

Cosmopolis When we give our faces away

Face recognition technology is supplanting other forms of identification, shrinking further the bounds of privacy and the freedom to remain unknown

TUMMY TRAVELS Simply Neapolitan

In Naples, the birthplace of the pizza, fancy toppings and experiments with the dough don’t do the trick

on the shelf Not that many fish in the sea, actually

To read the work of Jacques Cousteau today is to be dumbstruck at the terrible extent of damage inflicted on marine life

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Quiz on famous coaches

Gary Kirsten, the soft-spoken backroom boy from South Africa when India last won a Cricket World Cup, turns 52 on November 23. This week’s quiz looks ...

HERE, THERE & ELSEWHERE Learning mania

“What’s the matter?” Bins leans into my room with a worried frown on his face. “What’s that weird sound?” I glance up from my iPad. “No idea what ...

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United colours of Jerusalem

How music and art come together to ease the city’s tense religious divisions

India’s bitter pill

How did India become the most drug-resistant nation in the world and what is it doing to combat lethal mutating infections? From draft national medical policies to new pharma regulations and better primary diagnostics, on World Antibiotic Awareness Week, a roundup of the measures unleashed to battle this mass killer

The impeachment primer

All you need to know before you sit down to watch Donald Trump’s public hearings

STATES OF MATTER India’s original sin

The ghosts of the Partition have returned to haunt the politics of the republic

Modi 2.0: Prime Minister in a hurry

Six months into his second term, Narendra Modi has brushed aside legal and constitutional impediments to tackle two of the three contentious items on the Hindutva agenda

Forest of many-sided truths

A critique of development or a vessel for soft-Hindutva — a new graphic novel by Amruta Patil and Devdutt Pattanaik is as much about the reader’s gaze as the book

The keys to a guilt-free life: Good cook, good driver and good husband

Kaveree Bamzai’s handbook for modern women is not meant to be a self-help book, but is nevertheless brimming with advice

Humour podcasts: Daily dose of laughter

The antidote to mild annoyances — from a bout of flu to the dreaded Monday morning blues — is humour

JNU fee hike pushes security guard-turned-student over the edge

The proposed fee hike has piled the odds against Ramjal Meena, a security guard-turned-student who became a symbol of the institution’s inclusiveness

Boroline at 90: An evergreen saga

The Swadeshi movement, a Bengali businessman and a hand-held cream churner: That’s the story of “shurobhito antiseptic cream” Boroline, now 90

PAPERWALLAH The ‘un-mappable’ author

It might be immensely fulfilling for writers to revisit literary landscapes and themes. Some, however, find the safety of such familiarity uninspiring

Self, not selfie: The case for Advaita

On the occasion of World Philosophy Day, a toast to an ancient school of thought that sees the universe as one

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