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Dalit History Month: Culture as power and other stories to read this weekend

New Delhi, April 26 -- All through April, Dalit History Month, the team at Lounge has been talking about ways to mark the contributions and resilience of the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes... Read More


Summer love and other essentials for a holiday at home

New Delhi, April 19 -- Summer for most of India is liminal-it seems to lurk at the ends, or beginnings, of every season. There isn't a time when we truly forget the heat, unlike northern Europe that s... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Falling in love with an AI chatbot

New Delhi, April 12 -- Look at all the lonely people. Where do they all belong? sang the Beatles in the '60s, nearly two decades before the internet was officially born. And in the age of AI, a bot ca... Read More


Saturday Feeling: What are you not drinking this weekend?

New Delhi, April 5 -- For a culture that religiously admires renunciation, we don't really encourage giving up things. Dropping sugar? "Just one spoon" won't do any harm. On a protein-rich diet? Every... Read More


These cotton textile labels provide a glimpse of business history

New Delhi, March 30 -- There's an uncanny resemblance between a work of art shown at Bengaluru's Museum of Art & Photography last year and one at its current Ticket Tika Chaap: The Art of the Trademar... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Finding a balance between conservation and luxury tourism

New Delhi, March 29 -- For most students of a certain vintage from Chennai, 'turtle walks' were a fixture on the calendar. Between November and February, we'd follow volunteers of the Students' Sea Tu... Read More


Overconfidence can be an asset and a liability

New Delhi, March 24 -- Every time a man explains their jobs, their interests or their lives to them-and it happens with the frequency of traffic jams in Bengaluru-female friends will say, "I wish I ha... Read More


Why women are angry and other big stories to read this week in Lounge

New Delhi, March 22 -- Outrage is everywhere. On social media, on the streets, on television debates, we dig in our heels and assert our positions on religion, morality, sexuality, even whether delive... Read More


KP Singh: The city builder

New Delhi, March 8 -- Dressed in a claret-coloured shirt and dark slacks, K.P. Singh is just back in New Delhi from Lynndale, his 110-acre home in Mussoorie, where he brought in his 95th birthday with... Read More


Tracking A-Beauty's rise, Rasmus Munk's plans and other trends

New Delhi, March 1 -- At her beautiful farmhouse in Coimbatore a few months ago, serial entrepreneur Rajshree Pathy showed me her new line of shampoos, conditioners and oils that looked, felt and smel... Read More