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Saturday Feeling: Apps that have us trapped, what to watch this weekend and more

New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- More than a decade ago, Eli Pariser wrote The Filter Bubble about the dangers of a hyper-personalized internet. His research was based largely on companies like Google and (then)... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Stories about Indian cookbook writers, Arundhati Roy's 'gangster mom' and more

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- In the era of YouTube, when every recipe from almost every part of the world is a three-minute video, it's hard to see the appeal of cookbooks. Instead of struggling with near-ex... Read More


Beer and chocolate: pairing crowd-pleasers

New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- After a chocolate-making session at the 35-year-old artisanal lab, Concept Chocolate in Brussels, owner and chocolatier Maxime Pliester sets out three kinds of flavourful, locall... Read More


Saturday Feeling: How street dogs inspire art, Gen Z toys with micro-retirement, and other stories to read this weekend

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- I was chatting with another journalist about this week's Lounge stories-which came from the team trying, and failing, to imagine a city without community dogs following Supreme C... Read More


Saturday Feeling: A reading list on freedom, films to watch and stories to read this weekend

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- For as long as I can remember, there's been much hand-wringing about the "loss of reading habit", the dirges linking the decline to every other evil in the world. The Kerala gove... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Everyone's got a 'Sholay' memory

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- When songs from Sholay appeared on TV in the 1990s, my parents always livened up. It wasn't just the music; they also had a story to tell about trekking to Leicester from London, ... Read More


Nuns take charge of Buddhism, creators make mics must-have accessories and other stories to read

New Delhi, July 26 -- A few years ago, a couple of colleagues and I interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama for a special issue of Mint to mark Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary. It's easily one of the highlig... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Of monsoon greens, 'Indian Summers', and other stories to read this weekend

New Delhi, July 19 -- We started work on this week's cover with the simple idea of asking food specialists to name their favourite monsoon ingredient, use it in a recipe, and perhaps share a memory as... Read More


The world of mango snobbery

New Delhi, July 5 -- Earlier this week, I learned that farmers in Greece are experimenting with mangoes and lychees. It's getting hotter and drier in the region, and that's just the right weather for ... Read More


Pondy's French citizens are coming home, GenZ loves fake weddings & other great reads

New Delhi, June 29 -- A friend of more than two decades recently asked me where 'home' is after realizing that my life is spread across four cities, and I have none of the trappings that would anchor ... Read More