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Saturday Feeling: Ghosts, horror and all things spooky

New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- If you have any association with hill towns, you're likely to have grown up with stories that send shivers down the spine. In Coonoor, where I spent most of my childhood summer h... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Gift your love language this Diwali

New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Communication isn't just about exchanging information; it's about exchanging information that makes us understand, comprehend and feel for one another. Expressing this understand... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Read about bread's new place on the plate, Zubeen Garg's legacy, Nagaland's best coffee and more

New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Taylor Swift apparently spends 60% of her time talking about bread ("it's a loaf story," to quote her)-as I learnt from a reel I came across while trying to avoid getting down to ... Read More


Saturday Feeling: India is waking up to local coffee

New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- For most of us, coffee is synonymous with waking up or getting that midday boost, but for many it has also become an elaborate ritual. Water temperature, roast heat, blends, gri... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Gen Alpha's love language, hobosexuality and other stories for the weekend

New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- With words like 'rizzler', 'skibidi' and 'sus' peppering their vocabulary, the language of Gen Alpha, the generation born between 2010 and 2024, can seem like it needs its own d... Read More


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