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Banishing acts: What is cancel-culture insurance and why does it exist?

India, Oct. 11 -- In a revealing, if gimmicky, move, the UK-based insurance agency Samphire Risk has begun offering cancel-culture insurance. The policy is called Preempt and includes 24x7 crisis com... Read More


Tide and prejudice: In coastal Kerala, a play serves as a prayer for drowning villages

India, Oct. 11 -- What does it look like, a prayer for the drowning? On a stage in Kochi, it is a wooden frame built to replicate a coastal home. Within the frame, Vilasini Surendran, 64, a daily-wag... Read More


Contempt of quote: The fight to save punctuation

India, Sept. 28 -- In the 3rd century BCE, the Greeks wrote without any spaces, punctuations or distinction between capital letters or lowercase. To the modern eye this would look like undecipherable ... Read More


Contempt of quote: The fight to save punctuation

India, Sept. 26 -- In the 3rd century BCE, the Greeks wrote without any spaces, punctuations or distinction between capital letters or lowercase. To the modern eye this would look like undecipherable ... Read More


Look past the pearl earring

India, Sept. 21 -- The light of a soft winter sun illuminates the faces of two very different women. One leans over a desk, writing a letter. The other, her maid, looks toward the window with an air o... Read More


Unsung heroes: One room, one song and a bunch of strangers

India, Sept. 19 -- Medha Sahi's enthusiasm is infectious. She hops, skips and jumps as she conducts her impromptu choirs. In each city she sweeps through, she brings strangers together for a three-h... Read More


Look past the pearl earring: Into the world of Vermeer's love letters

India, Sept. 19 -- The light of a soft winter sun illuminates the faces of two very different women. One leans over a desk, writing a letter. The other, her maid, looks toward the window with an air ... Read More


Bark to the beginning

India, Sept. 7 -- The clove is now an irritant; cardamom is considered so unpleasant, it has become a meme. This marks yet another shift in an ancient tale. Here's an overview of the winding paths the... Read More


Bark to the beginning: Tracing spices through time

India, Sept. 6 -- The clove is now an irritant; cardamom is considered so unpleasant, it has become a meme. This marks yet another shift in an ancient tale. Here's an overview of the winding paths the... Read More


A swell guy: Wknd interviews India's champion surfer, Ramesh Budihal

India, Aug. 29 -- It started out rough. Mahabalipuram's waves had not yet settled into the rhythm Ramesh Budihal, 24, was hoping for. Then he found his opening curl and manoeuvred his way through it,... Read More