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Book Box: Reading China - Part 2

China feels vibrant and welcoming; exploring Shanghai's bookstores reveals a mix of modernity and hidden complexities in literature and society.

Opinion

Updated on May 04, 2025 01:47 PM IST

BySonya Dutta Choudhury

Just Like That: A mellow ode to the gramophone and vinyl

The transition from analog to digital was not just technological—it was philosophical. Music was no longer a physical possession but a string of ones and zeros

...But very hazily, as a child I remember that gramophones were the magic that allowed you access to music apart from the radio. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

India News

Published on May 04, 2025 12:31 PM IST

ByPavan K Varma

Justifying caste killings in the name of family honour

Even when cases are reported, conviction is a problem with witnesses turning hostile.

Controlling the autonomy of adult daughters in the name of protecting them remains a concern of recent state laws that make it virtually impossible for interfaith couples to marry by conversion (AFP)

Opinion

Updated on May 03, 2025 07:09 PM IST

ByNamita Bhandare

Portrait of Pope Francis: His life, message, legacy

Pope Francis cared about people. The position he took on the issue of immigrants and refugees proves this

He was a very liberal Catholic Pope but he was still a Catholic Pope (REUTERS)

Opinion

Published on May 03, 2025 07:04 PM IST

ByKaran Thapar

Terror crosses borders, so must consequences

The need is to consolidate an economic, strategic, and geopolitical offensive against Pakistan and break the back of its sponsorship of terror

India must not only play defence but also script an audacious offensive across land, sea, and air

Opinion

Updated on May 03, 2025 06:59 PM IST

ByAbhishek Manu Singhvi

Inviting a whole bot of trouble: Simran Mangharam on AI in relationships

‘How can I ask her out without sounding creepy?’ ‘How do I text him back without seeming desperate?’ These are reasonable questions to ask ChatGPT. Stop there.

Mobile Lovers, a mural created by Banksy, in Bristol. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:50 PM IST

BySimran Mangharam

India, Angola, Peru and the Moon: See who’s on an endangered heritage sites list

Why did Sea of Tranquility make the cut? What marks out ancient fields in Peru, a lake system in Kutch, an Indian city centre with a river running through it?

The Sea of Tranquillity, with its unusually flat surface, has served as a landing pad for numerous Moon missions, including the first manned one, featuring Buzz Aldrin. A flag, a boot print and assorted trash and memorabilia now lie strewn across the area. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:47 PM IST

ByMadhusree Ghosh

The vault in our stars: Rudraneil Sengupta on Indian gymnastics

Interviewing a jubilant Brazilian gymnastics star recently was a bittersweet experience. How much hope, and help, she has had.

What does it take to pull off this kind of balancing act? Don’t ask the Gymnastics Federation of India. (Photo Courtesy Laureus)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:45 PM IST

ByRudraneil Sengupta

Best fruit forward: Check out a unique ‘mango museum’ in Gujarat

Guests can walk through an orchard made up of 300 varieties. Expect rare breeds from Japan, Thailand and West Bengal, as well as lessons in climate resilience.

Samples of the red ivory, strawberry, banana and King of Chakapat mangoes grown on the Jariyas’ 12-acre farm.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:44 PM IST

ByShreeya Amberkar

The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide

India is third on the list of countries with the wealthiest billionaires. Meanwhile, less than 38% of households own a refrigerator.

Viewed as a separate country, India 1 - made up of the top 10% - would consist of about 140 million people, with per capita income at about <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>12.80 lakh. (Pixabay)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 AM IST

ByAnesha George

Why non-profits must embrace analytics

This article is authored by Amar Gupta, operations director, NIIT Foundation, New Delhi.

future tech

Published on May 03, 2025 03:40 PM IST

ByAmar Gupta

Unleashing India’s gender dividend: Dismantling demand-side barriers

This article is authored by Pooja Sharma Goyal, Founding CEO, The Udaiti Foundation.

Gender Equality

Published on May 03, 2025 03:37 PM IST

ByPooja Sharma Goyal

Not every chest pain is a heart attack

Authored by - Dr Niranjan Hiremath, senior consultant, cardiovascular and aortic surgeon and surgical lead, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi.

Public Health

Published on May 03, 2025 02:16 PM IST

ByDr Niranjan Hiremath

Amaravati: Capital on revival road after years of turbulence

Amaravati's revival is underway after years of political turmoil. Farmers are hopeful as construction resumes, aiming for a modern capital in three years.

India News

Published on May 03, 2025 06:22 AM IST

BySrinivasa Rao Apparasu, Amaravati

A poet with camera, and his cinema of humanism

Shaji N Karun's cinematography was a weave of aesthetic as warp and ethos as weft

Opinion

Updated on May 02, 2025 09:31 PM IST

ByAmrit Gangar

Share, not fight over, the rivers

Punjab and Haryana must get realistic about availability and be sensitive to each other’s needs

In the long-run, though, water-sharing will remain a major point of contention between Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi unless there is a serious assessment of the long-term needs, resource availability, storage and transfer infrastructure, and mitigation measures (for both dry and wet seasons)

Editorials

Updated on May 02, 2025 09:20 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

The West misunderstands, and misrepresents, nature of Pakistan’s terror policy

The US response to the Pahalgam terror attack shows how little the West understands Pakistan’s weaponisation of terrorism as State policy

There’s an element of massive doublespeak in Vance hoping India’s response doesn’t lead to a “regional war” given that no American politician would have said this to Israel after the Hamas attacks (PTI)

Opinion

Updated on May 02, 2025 09:13 PM IST

ByBarkha Dutt

Who’s rich? Who’s poor? Who’s middle-class?

Most of India earns so little, just ₹2.9 lakh a year puts you in the top 10%. How can this be? Kashyap Kompella takes a gentle, and sometimes bewildered, look

How unequal are we? The bottom half of the country currently owns less than 7% of the nations wealth. The top 1% controls nearly 40%. And the gap is growing.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 04, 2025 07:01 AM IST

ByKashyap Kompella

Why AI will not kill creativity

Models like ChatGPT are trained on massive datasets built from human-made content. Books, essays, art, music, journalism, software.

AI requires an enormous ecological infrastructure. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Technology

Updated on May 02, 2025 03:56 PM IST

ht_print | ByCharles Assisi

Carbon-neutral strategies will determine market leadership

This article is authored by RS Jalan, managing director, GHCL, New Delhi.

Climate Change

Published on May 02, 2025 03:15 PM IST

ByRS Jalan

How AI startups are redefining Indian health care

This article is authored by Rahul Paith, CEO, DST MATH.

Public Health

Published on May 02, 2025 03:08 PM IST

ByRahul Paith

Creativity, censorship and clever camouflage

The Dramatic Performances Act of 1876 was enacted to quell the expression of anti-colonial sentiment.

Early twentieth century Indian playwrights and the fight for Bharat Mata. Painting of Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore. (Wikimedia Commons)

Books

Published on May 02, 2025 03:07 PM IST

ByMallika Ravikumar

Redefining philanthropy in India: Catalysing systemic change

This article is authored by Naina Subberwal Batra, CEO, AVPN.

Economic Policy

Published on May 02, 2025 02:58 PM IST

ByNaina Subberwal Batra

India’s critical mineral strategy needs a recycling mindset

This article is authored by Rajat Verma, founder & CEO, LOHUM.

Economic Policy

Updated on May 02, 2025 02:33 PM IST

ByRajat Verma

Pensiontech: How AI, blockchain and automation are redefining user experience

This article is authored by RK Rangan, chairman & president, Aptia Group India.

future tech

Published on May 02, 2025 01:49 PM IST

ByRK Rangan

Tech Tonic | Battles aside, Perplexity is rapidly writing an ambitious chapter

At $9 billion, Perplexity AI’s vision includes a Comet web browser that aligns with its agentic AI aspirations, Deep Research, search. Path to be bumpy, though

In essence, there is a lot going on at Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas’ artificial intelligence (AI) company. (PTI)

India News

Published on May 02, 2025 01:32 PM IST

ByVishal Mathur

‘For us physicists, beauty is a new idea that unifies and explains’

Meet Jainendra Jain, who just won the Wolf Prize (considered second only to the Nobel) for a discovery that is now helping Microsoft build its quantum chips.

‘I find it amazing that the entire universe runs as per these mathematical laws, unchangingly. That… to me, that’s God,’ Jain says.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 04, 2025 06:00 AM IST

ByKanika Sharma

Trade War Exposes China’s Dependence on U.S. for Auto Chips

Certain American chips are essential for cars and other industrial goods made in China—a vulnerability revealed in tariff exemptions pushed by Beijing.

Business

Updated on May 02, 2025 11:59 AM IST

WSJ

Why does America have birthright citizenship?

The 14th Amendment says all those “born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens”.

World News

Published on May 02, 2025 07:18 AM IST

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China feels vibrant and welcoming; exploring Shanghai's bookstores reveals a mix of modernity and hidden complexities in literature and society.

The transition from analog to digital was not just technological—it was philosophical. Music was no longer a physical possession but a string of ones and zeros

Even when cases are reported, conviction is a problem with witnesses turning hostile.

Pope Francis cared about people. The position he took on the issue of immigrants and refugees proves this

The need is to consolidate an economic, strategic, and geopolitical offensive against Pakistan and break the back of its sponsorship of terror

‘How can I ask her out without sounding creepy?’ ‘How do I text him back without seeming desperate?’ These are reasonable questions to ask ChatGPT. Stop there.

Why did Sea of Tranquility make the cut? What marks out ancient fields in Peru, a lake system in Kutch, an Indian city centre with a river running through it?

Interviewing a jubilant Brazilian gymnastics star recently was a bittersweet experience. How much hope, and help, she has had.

Guests can walk through an orchard made up of 300 varieties. Expect rare breeds from Japan, Thailand and West Bengal, as well as lessons in climate resilience.

India is third on the list of countries with the wealthiest billionaires. Meanwhile, less than 38% of households own a refrigerator.

This article is authored by Amar Gupta, operations director, NIIT Foundation, New Delhi.

This article is authored by Pooja Sharma Goyal, Founding CEO, The Udaiti Foundation.

Authored by - Dr Niranjan Hiremath, senior consultant, cardiovascular and aortic surgeon and surgical lead, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi.

Amaravati's revival is underway after years of political turmoil. Farmers are hopeful as construction resumes, aiming for a modern capital in three years.

Shaji N Karun's cinematography was a weave of aesthetic as warp and ethos as weft

Punjab and Haryana must get realistic about availability and be sensitive to each other’s needs

The US response to the Pahalgam terror attack shows how little the West understands Pakistan’s weaponisation of terrorism as State policy

Most of India earns so little, just ₹2.9 lakh a year puts you in the top 10%. How can this be? Kashyap Kompella takes a gentle, and sometimes bewildered, look

Models like ChatGPT are trained on massive datasets built from human-made content. Books, essays, art, music, journalism, software.

This article is authored by RS Jalan, managing director, GHCL, New Delhi.

This article is authored by Rahul Paith, CEO, DST MATH.

The Dramatic Performances Act of 1876 was enacted to quell the expression of anti-colonial sentiment.

This article is authored by Naina Subberwal Batra, CEO, AVPN.

This article is authored by Rajat Verma, founder & CEO, LOHUM.

This article is authored by RK Rangan, chairman & president, Aptia Group India.

At $9 billion, Perplexity AI’s vision includes a Comet web browser that aligns with its agentic AI aspirations, Deep Research, search. Path to be bumpy, though

Meet Jainendra Jain, who just won the Wolf Prize (considered second only to the Nobel) for a discovery that is now helping Microsoft build its quantum chips.

Certain American chips are essential for cars and other industrial goods made in China—a vulnerability revealed in tariff exemptions pushed by Beijing.

The 14th Amendment says all those “born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens”.

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