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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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