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With strokes of quirky humour, Partha Pratim Deb uses pulp, terracotta, glass and discarded cloth to create fascinating objects in psychedelic shades

Given the events in Washington DC on January 6, this week’s quiz is all about buildings that house or housed seats of power.On the house1 Before the ...

While good writing wars against the cliché, television gives it a natural home

In these isolated times when people yearn for a slice of the familiar, amateur and professional chefs are zhuzhing up work-from-home meals, with recipes taught by grandmothers to menus designed around festivals

The storming of the Capitol on January 6 could be the prelude to yet another chapter in the US’s long and shameful history of colour and racial divides

In an anti-tobacco campaign launched last month, the global health body has engaged the community of those who have quit the habit

‘Now It’s Come to Distances’ examines the defining moments of the past year — the Shaheen Bagh protests, Covid-19 and its management by the Central government

Legal and regulatory uncertainties hang like a sword on an industry which earned ₹2,470 crore revenues in the last financial year alone

Sopan Deb’s journey towards personal catharsis is perhaps the most honest and straightforward look a man can take at his people

A crackling fire, a tusker and a family scandal bring together a group of fellow travellers in Kerala

This tale begins 10 years ago, when I first moved to Elsewhere, into an elderly apartment building. Housing for multiple tenants often have a laundry ...

Although they match their Gujarati, South Indian and North Indian counterparts bite for bite, Maharashtrian snacks are a low-key bunch

On this day in 1863, the world’s oldest underground railway opened between Paddington and Farringdon, the first stations of the London Underground.

Actor-director Seema Pahwa spent her time in pandemic 2020 building stories around the eccentricities of joint family set-ups

India is ready with two vaccines to beat the deadliest virus of recent times. The immunisation drive, however, is still in the planning stage. A quick overview

The clinician scientist on how to combat a mutating virus

Food cropped up as a leitmotif in Irrfan Khan’s films. On his birth anniversary today, a fan recalls some flavourful moments

A vehicle owner queues up for a colour-coded sticker — and wonders why he has to do so in Covid-19 times

Marina Wheeler’s ‘The Lost Homestead’ is a valuable addition to volumes on the Partition but is also coloured by the author’s belief that the British Raj was not such a bad thing after all

In the absence of real-world connection, my social life belongs increasingly to my phone

The pandemic has brought the curtain down on many businesses. The uncertainty over the future of a single-screen theatre in Kodagu unboxes memories and all that it stands for

Zakir Hussain was called the ‘Krishna of Kaliyug’, Vilayat Khan was a good mimic, Ravi Shankar had a stock of juicy jokes and Amir Khan, a quiet sense of humour. A biography of Pandit Vijay Kichlu, the Hindustani classical vocalist who helped set up the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, turns the lens on the many stalwarts who ruled the world of music

Wild vines in the Northeast bear a special kind of pepper that may soon hit the markets

Amongst the gifts I got for Christmas last week is a Storm Cloud: A small glass object in the shape of a cloud, half-filled with clear liquid. There ...