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Ravichandran Ashwin named in Wisden’s Test team of the decade

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Published on Jan 02, 2020 03:32 PM IST

The only Indian on the team apart from Virat Kohli and, significantly, the only spinner in the 11

Ravichandran Ashwin is India’s premier off-spinner.(Ravi Choudhary / HT Photo)

Hindustan Times | ByAditya Iyer

Shashi Tharoor’s Word of the Week: Cromulent

When a word conceals fake intent beneath its apparent genuineness

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Published on Aug 09, 2019 03:10 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Shashi Tharoor’s Word of the Week: Phobia

Scared of something specific? There’s a specific word for it too

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Published on Jul 27, 2019 06:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShashi Tharoor

The woman who put man on the moon

Margaret Hamilton, a 28 year-old American programmer, led the team that developed the first software to run on the moon

Margaret Hamilton standing next to the listings of the software she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo project in 1969.(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

world news

Published on Jul 12, 2019 05:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByParamita Ghosh

Tennis champ Ashleigh Barty is on the ball

The fighting, diminutive Australian has brought new excitement to women’s tennis

sports

Published on Jul 05, 2019 05:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAbhishek Paul

8 mistakes healthy Indians are making

Are you slashing sugar but forgetting about salt? Working out so hard, you could be risking burnout?

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Updated on Jun 24, 2019 01:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByVanessa Viegas

Threats, slurs, insults: It’s a hard life for lawyers defending terror suspects

Your client may be acquitted, but life will likely never be the same. Friends and neighbours shun you, loved ones question your motives.

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Updated on Mar 19, 2017 09:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByDipanjan Sinha

Family for hire: Old and lonely? Here’s company, and help, you can get for a fee

New companionship services offer to take seniors for walks, go with them to events, or just send someone over to talk.

Bhagyalata Das, 72, says the ‘volunteers’ from Samvedna give her something to look forward to. Here, she and Priyanka Bantwal surf the internet for knitting designs at her Gurgaon home.(Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Mar 19, 2017 10:30 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnubhuti Matta

A path through the forest of the heart

The allure of the gods

Shiva is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.(Photo: Shutterstock)

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Published on Mar 18, 2017 04:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRenuka Narayanan

A new Mumbai eatery that’s loud and proud: Tamasha restaurant review

Its spaciousness, low prices and interesting experiments with food make it easier to look past Tamasha’s misses.

Although there’s barely any vodka in Tamasha’s vodka chicken biryani, the dish is creatively presented, with the masala sandwiched between two bun-shaped layers of rice.(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 08:31 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAntoine Lewis

Revisit a forgotten naval mutiny at an art exhibition this weekend

How much do you know about the Royal Indian Mutiny of 1946?

A massive ship installation plays to its passengers (seated viewers) a 40-minute movie about the naval mutiny.

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Updated on Mar 18, 2017 08:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRiddhi Doshi

A play for all time: The Cabuliwala is back

An adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s iconic children’s story, which has been retold several times on the stage and on screen.

Actors rehearse for the play, The Cabuliwala, before it’s staged on March 18, 2017. Rabindranath Tagore’s iconic children’s story is back on stage in an adaptation directed by veteran theatre artiste Jalabala Vaidya.(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 08:11 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByParamita Ghosh

Secular and sacred: A tale of two cities

An ongoing exhibition in Delhi reflects on the past and present of two ancient, holy cities that have been sites of faith and conflict.

Home Shrine (detail), 2016, by Manisha Parekh, is her interpretation of the sacred as a private space. The art work is part of an ongoing exhibition that reflects on the legacy of the holy cities of Varanasi and Anuradhapura.(Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 07:19 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySupriya Sharma

Review of The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri: A meditation on book covers

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new offering ponders about the aesthetic and commercial purposes of book covers and their relationship with the writer and the reader

books

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 08:54 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySoumya Bhattacharya

Dark Star of Kathmandu by Rabi Thapa: An ancient city’s beating heart

Rabi Thapa delves into the past, present and the hopeful future of Thamel, the tourist district of Nepal’s capital

Tourists walk through Thamel in Kathmandu in October, 2008.(AFP)

books

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 08:49 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPradhuman Sodha

Shrugging off convention; Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind

Namita Gokhale’s new novel exhibits her way with language, her ability to transform burlesque into satire, and her superb control of multiple plots

View of boats on lake, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India.(UIG via Getty Images)

books

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 08:41 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByVrinda Nabar

What a long, strange trip it’s been: How HT covered the 2017 assembly elections

A peek into the behind-the-scene activities of HT’s 2017 assembly elections coverage

A meeting at the HT newsroom on results day, March 11

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Updated on Mar 12, 2017 07:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByText: Poulomi Banerjee, Illustration: Sudhir Shetty

Rooting for you: A social platform for sports fans, by a sports fan

Love a particular sport? Here’s how you can connect with other enthusiasts around the world, during a live match

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Updated on Mar 10, 2017 10:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnesha George

Rahim: The poet within the courtier

A two-day festival in Delhi honours the great Hindi poet and Mughal general, still remembered for his dohas.

Among Abdur Rahim Khan’s legacy in Delhi is the Khan i Khanan, an exquisite tomb he built for his wife in what is today Nizamuddin. It’s currently being restored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.(Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 11, 2017 10:56 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByTCA Raghavan

Sufiana Rang: Holi in the words of Urdu bards

Holi, a festival of colour and abandon, has been celebrated with great gusto across northern India for centuries, including in the verse of famous Urdu poets.

Indian villagers smear themselves with colour during the Lathmar Holi festival in Nandgaon, around 120 kms from New Delhi. The women of Nandgaon chase the men from Barsana, the legendary hometown of Radha, consort of Hindu God Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to the latter’s efforts to put colour on them.(Ajay Aggarwal/HT Photo)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 11, 2017 10:58 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRakhshanda Jalil

Why should women’s liberation movement be silent on right to sexual freedom?

The controversy surrounding the Central Board for Film Certification’s refusal to certify the film Lipstick Under My Burkha has again highlighted a patriarchal society’s discomfort with a women’s sexuality

Ratna Pathak Shah in a still from the film Lipstick Under My Burkha. The Central Board for Film Certification refused to certify the film because it is “lady oriented”.

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Updated on Jun 09, 2017 02:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPoulomi Banerjee

Women by choice: Extraordinary tales from the transgender community

Ahead of Women's Day, a wife, a model, an executive and an activist talk about what being a woman means to them.

Madhuri Sarode, a dancer, wife and aspiring mother, says she loves getting tips on housekeeping from her mother-in-law.

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Updated on Mar 05, 2017 10:23 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnesha George

Women speak: #WeWillGoOut. Simply because we want to.

Young women are claiming their right to be out on the streets - day or night. Why can’t we?, they are demanding to know. But within these movements, issues of privilege, class and caste remain.

(From left) Swarnima Bhattacharya, Bhani Rachel Bali, and Japleen Pasricha, organisers of the Delhi chapter of the ‘I Will Go Out’ march that took place in January. Young women such as these have been asserting their right to be out on the streets.(Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 05, 2017 08:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNamita Kohli

Staging diversity: Meta 2017 will make you reflect deeper on nuances of social issues

From censorship to Shakespeare for clowns

Kaali Nadakam, one of the plays staged at Meta 2017. It explores caste relations and ideas of power and justice through a murder that takes place during the performance of a traditional temple play.(Photos courtesy: Teamwork Arts)

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Updated on Mar 04, 2017 08:58 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySupriya Sharma

SH Raza’s paintings and the essence of Gandhi’s philosophy

Mahatma Gandhi was a subject painter SH Raza returned to repeatedly so that he could capture the essence of his philosophy - from pain to peace

Artist SH Raza in Delhi.(Photo: Priyanka Parashar/ HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 04, 2017 09:05 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManik Sharma

The Innocent Accused: Are we biased against the minorities?

A Delhi court recently acquitted two accused in the 2005 serial blasts. This is only one of many cases in which those charged by cops have been eventually found innocent by courts

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Updated on Mar 01, 2017 05:31 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPoulomi Banerjee

Flipping other kinds of crepe: Shebaba by Renuka Narayanan

The history of food is the history of cultural contact. At its most charming, human contact has culture sailing like a bird perched on the shoulder of commerce.

There are at least thirty kinds of desi dosas listed on foodie sources. While some are ‘traditional’ recipes, others seem to be born out of sheer exuberance, like the beetroot dosa(SHUTTERSTOCK)

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Updated on Feb 26, 2017 10:49 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRenuka Narayanan

Sick of the stigma: Children with rare diseases who live a life apart

For kids with diseases that make them look different, social acceptance is tough and parents must work doubly hard to build confidence

The Khan children, Ashfaq and Mushtaq, who are suffering from HED, have been ridiculed, pelted with stones and have even had dogs set on them because they look different, in their village in Rampur.(Mujeeb Faruqui/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Feb 27, 2017 07:56 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Rhythma Kaul and Anesha George

In search of princess Phaya: Looking for Myanmar’s forgotten royals in Ratnagiri

Descendants of the last king of Burma still live in Maharashtra. Shorn of the royal grandeur, they say they are only namesake royals

The Thibaw palace at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra, where the last king of Burma was exiled by the British. The palace is lit up during an annual arts festival that takes place in January. The crumbling palace is now being restored by the state archaeology department.(Gurinder Osan/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Feb 26, 2017 10:48 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNamita Kohli

Hungry for the 1990s? Here’s where to eat

A few restaurants in Mumbai that shone in 1990s are still as good as you remember.

There is a table by the French windows that’s perfect for a rum and cola at Gallops when it’s raining.(Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 25, 2017 03:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRoshni Bajaj Sanghvi

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The only Indian on the team apart from Virat Kohli and, significantly, the only spinner in the 11

When a word conceals fake intent beneath its apparent genuineness

Scared of something specific? There’s a specific word for it too

Margaret Hamilton, a 28 year-old American programmer, led the team that developed the first software to run on the moon

The fighting, diminutive Australian has brought new excitement to women’s tennis

Are you slashing sugar but forgetting about salt? Working out so hard, you could be risking burnout?

Your client may be acquitted, but life will likely never be the same. Friends and neighbours shun you, loved ones question your motives.

New companionship services offer to take seniors for walks, go with them to events, or just send someone over to talk.

The allure of the gods

Its spaciousness, low prices and interesting experiments with food make it easier to look past Tamasha’s misses.

How much do you know about the Royal Indian Mutiny of 1946?

An adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s iconic children’s story, which has been retold several times on the stage and on screen.

An ongoing exhibition in Delhi reflects on the past and present of two ancient, holy cities that have been sites of faith and conflict.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new offering ponders about the aesthetic and commercial purposes of book covers and their relationship with the writer and the reader

Rabi Thapa delves into the past, present and the hopeful future of Thamel, the tourist district of Nepal’s capital

Namita Gokhale’s new novel exhibits her way with language, her ability to transform burlesque into satire, and her superb control of multiple plots

A peek into the behind-the-scene activities of HT’s 2017 assembly elections coverage

Love a particular sport? Here’s how you can connect with other enthusiasts around the world, during a live match

A two-day festival in Delhi honours the great Hindi poet and Mughal general, still remembered for his dohas.

Holi, a festival of colour and abandon, has been celebrated with great gusto across northern India for centuries, including in the verse of famous Urdu poets.

The controversy surrounding the Central Board for Film Certification’s refusal to certify the film Lipstick Under My Burkha has again highlighted a patriarchal society’s discomfort with a women’s sexuality

Ahead of Women's Day, a wife, a model, an executive and an activist talk about what being a woman means to them.

Young women are claiming their right to be out on the streets - day or night. Why can’t we?, they are demanding to know. But within these movements, issues of privilege, class and caste remain.

From censorship to Shakespeare for clowns

Mahatma Gandhi was a subject painter SH Raza returned to repeatedly so that he could capture the essence of his philosophy - from pain to peace

A Delhi court recently acquitted two accused in the 2005 serial blasts. This is only one of many cases in which those charged by cops have been eventually found innocent by courts

The history of food is the history of cultural contact. At its most charming, human contact has culture sailing like a bird perched on the shoulder of commerce.

For kids with diseases that make them look different, social acceptance is tough and parents must work doubly hard to build confidence

Descendants of the last king of Burma still live in Maharashtra. Shorn of the royal grandeur, they say they are only namesake royals

A few restaurants in Mumbai that shone in 1990s are still as good as you remember.

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