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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


World Music Day: Is streaming helping or harming indie music?

New Delhi, June 21 -- We're constantly told that attention spans are shrinking and that with it, everything is getting shorter and faster. But there's one thing most of us have lots of time for and ca... Read More


250 years after her birth, Jane Austen's spirit lives on in India

New Delhi, June 14 -- Bored of reading about sewing, pianoforte sessions and perambulation, a friend and I tried rewriting Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma to fit into our high school-settin... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Gen Z's superfast fashion, 'Stolen' review and other stories

New Delhi, June 7 -- It was at an airport a year ago, while chatting with a young UI/UX engineer who was on the same delayed flight, that I learnt about fashion cycles shrinking to two weeks. She work... Read More


Plot twist: Can the monsoon become urban India's hero again?

New Delhi, June 5 -- It had been a week of bad news-of water filling homes, streets, even a presciently named Aqua Line metro station. The early monsoon brought little more than grim headlines of floo... Read More


How data analytics has transformed cricket

New Delhi, May 31 -- I've never been much of a sports viewer, but headlines have always been my hook. So, while the records Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan set in the 1990s and 2000s meant litt... Read More


Adapting Art Deco to Indian climate, culture and design

New Delhi, May 24 -- One of the more interesting stories we have this week is on the village of Dharmaj in Anand, Gujarat, which has more than 120 Art Deco buildings that date back to the 1930s and '4... Read More


Holiday ideas in the southern hemisphere, neo-punk jewellery goes desi, new Kindle review, and other stories to read

New Delhi, May 17 -- We were heading back to the lodge in the Manyeleti Nature Reserve when the ranger called out "Teapot!" and pointed to the sky. After a day of learning bush-walk signals and identi... Read More