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Clanker alert: What our newest slur for AI reveals about us

India, Nov. 21 -- No, AI did not write this article. But over the past few weeks, it probably did generate some of your emails, maybe an apology note, a bucket-list itinerary, a cutesy Hinge bio, an A... Read More


Sync or swim: Make your digital calender go with your flow

India, Nov. 21 -- It started with friends' birthdays and "very important" meetings. And now look at us - scheduling everything in our online calendars. Morning moka-pot rituals labelled orange, journa... Read More


Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: The bar-food makeover is here

India, Nov. 14 -- What do you eat when you are having a drink? It's not a question with an easy answer. I find that it changes from city to city and generation to generation. My earliest childhood me... Read More


Drawing Room: Wahida Ahmed on Gopi Gajwani's delicate abstracts

India, Nov. 14 -- Since childhood, I have felt drawn to images, lines, forms and colours. They spoke to me in ways words never could. I remember the world through what I see - shapes before sounds, co... Read More


Spectator by Seema Goswami: Chill, rewearing is OK

India, Nov. 14 -- I am always intrigued by people who go shopping every year around this time to buy what they call their 'winter wardrobe'. What, I wonder, happens to the 'winter wardrobe' they bough... Read More


Cheer up: Cocktails are going clear, cheeky and Insta-ready. Want a sip?

India, Nov. 14 -- A Gen Z customer walks into a bar. There's no punchline, just vibes. Going to bars, like everything else for today's 20-somethings, is more about doing it for the plot than to get wa... Read More


Ride or die: What women bikers need to know before setting off on a journey

India, Nov. 14 -- What do trolls know? All they see on their screens is a girl on a shiny motorcycle, helmet gleaming, leather jacket catching the light, mountains or highways in the distance. Every s... Read More


Hanging up: Why phone tech isn't exciting anymore

India, Nov. 13 -- In Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel, Klara and the Sun, the humanoid robots refer to phones as "oblongs". Phones have been feeling very oblong-y and uninspiring lately. A Reddit user on t... Read More


Weekend Drive by Hormazd Sorabjee: Track to the future

India, Nov. 7 -- What was once the Tokyo Motor Show has evolved into the Japan Mobility Show (JMS), but its DNA remains the same - a dazzling celebration of innovation, imagination, and the quirky cha... Read More


Spectator by Seema Goswami: Agony over the aunts

India, Nov. 7 -- What do you call the cousin of your father? I only ask because Zohran Mamdani (New York's new mayor) was accused of being a liar when he referred to his father's cousin as his aunt. A... Read More