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When I was small — meaning, in the single digits — my two older sisters and I had tremendous fun building card houses.There are two basic construction ...

How Pandit Shivnath Mishra founded the first sitar gharana of Banaras and took it to the world stage

It’s the birthday of American engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart, who is known for his work on devices such as the mouse. He’s also known for ...

MK Gandhi looks at his early years as a lawyer and householder in ‘Restless As Mercury’. An extract from the newly-published volume edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi on the father of the nation, who was assassinated 73 years ago on January 30

The lockdown sent millennials and WFH-ers scurrying to the home chefs and cloud kitchens for their daily bread. While social and mainstream media hail this trend as part of the ‘new normal’, a glimpse of food history shows that parcelled meals and doorstep delivery aren’t exactly modern-day inventions

As one of rock history’s most admired albums turns 50 this year, a look at the stories that built Led Zeppelin IV into a phenomenon

The birds, locally known as the Garuda, help farmers by killing rats and other farm pests

Former MLA and farmer leader VM Singh on the violence that followed the January 26 tractor rally, the impasse between protesting farmers and the government, and the way forward

Tara was a curious little girl who loved to ask questions.She lived with her parents and her grandmother — whom she called Nanu.Tara was closest to ...

A mysterious new exhibit has been the centre of attraction at the gallery of Modern Art. This art work has been up for six months, but continues to ...

Keshav Desiraju’s book on MS Subbulakshmi comes at a time when the Carnatic world is torn by bitterly fought debates on a wide array of issues

On the day the oleander baby was born, there was a steady, happy drizzle. Madhu woke up feeling unsteady. The young mother wanted this, her eighth ...

Mr Pandya rose from his recently inherited Japanese swivel chair and walked to observe his recently inherited view. The skyscraper strewn night sky of ...

The story of the 21-gun salute goes back a long way

The current India team didn’t just clinch a series in Australia. It also tugged at the heartstrings with displays of emotions and humanness

A virus swept aside 2020 plans to mark the 250th year of the birth of Beethoven. We need the German composer’s music to heal after a year of turmoil

The rain in Wales falls mainly in the plains...Wait, that is Spain. Let’s start again.Women in deep red skirtsRiding so many cycles per secondThey’re ...

The coffee beans were soaked in rum casks:Food can be imported, books sent across seas — as touching rituals —Maps marked, distances measured— ...

Marie leaned back in the chair, holding the brandy to her chest, the rain tapping on the windowpanes. She usually had a drink after dinner, while she ...

That weekend came the news that Champa’s elder daughter was engaged, the proof arriving in the form of Jaimini herself standing outside the front door ...

“Amma,” Divya yelled from the bathroom. “There’s something in my teeth.”Balakrishnan and Veena froze and stared at one other. They had just settled ...

Last week, at the DeBlois Gallery where I’m a member, we begin work on a New Project. It’s a form of self-expression I’d never heard of before: Tape ...

For their dead, Parsis practise a 3,000-year-old system where corpses are excarnated in the Tower of Silence, a building located on the eastern-most ...

The morning she gave Peter and Neha, and their baby daughter Minty, a tour of Ambassador Apartments, Mrs Banerjee decided she didn’t like them very ...