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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)

lifestyle

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)

lifestyle

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.

lifestyle

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)

lifestyle

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 AM IST

ByAnesha George

Just someone I used to know?: Charles Assisi writes on fading intimacy

When friends, or ex-lovers, drift apart, it may leave no bruises. But it’s still hard to reconcile, isn’t it, the quiet loss of a bond that once meant so much?

We rarely even talk about it, except perhaps in the movies. (Above) Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg play cousins, once close and now in different worlds, in the masterful film A Real Pain (2024).

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:14 PM IST

ByCharles Assisi

What are we all watching?: Deepanjana Pal on the missing Hindi comfort show

There was a time when we had Gullak, Panchayat, Bandish Bandits. Why is a vivid vampire flick the best thing I can currently recommend?

Hollwood is still doing the comfort watch fairly well. This year’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a good example. It allows Jones to retain her silliness but adds layers of depth and even pathos.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 02:58 PM IST

ByDeepanjana Pal

A thriller Top 10: Check out K Narayanan’s essential Hitchcock watchlist

Psycho, of course. But also The Lady Vanishes, and The 39 Steps. A century since his first film, Narayanan puts together a list of fan and critic favourites.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 25, 2025 02:35 PM IST

ByK Narayanan

‘Are we ready for this?’: Wknd interviews the astrophysicist who captured signs

At 45, Nikku Madhusudhan has made the discovery of a lifetime. How did he know where to look? What else could these gas signatures be? An exclusive interview.

The gas signatures Madhusudhan and his team at Cambridge have detected are the surest signs of life outside Earth that humanity has ever encountered. How we interpret and build on this data, from 124 light years away, will be crucial, he says.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:07 PM IST

BySnehal Fernandes

Read herrings: Poonam Saxena celebrates Hindi crime writer Surendra Mohan Pathak

His books are a mix of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English. These are the many Indias he has known. What keeps the pulp-fiction legend ticking?

Pathak’s aura remains undimmed, even though the glory days of Hindi pulp-fiction themselves are long over. (HT Archives)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:59 PM IST

ByPoonam Saxena

More than you can chew: Swetha Sivakumar explores extreme food records

What makes someone grow the biggest pumpkin or bake the largest loaf in the world? Exactly how risky are those eating competitions? Take a look.

Where do you draw the line?: Shaggy and Scooby-Doo.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:54 PM IST

BySwetha Sivakumar

Pounds and prejudice: Graphic novel Shrink explores life in a large body

Artist and researcher Rachel Thomas traces childhood scars, everyday cruelties – and vital research around medical bias, anthropology, history.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:51 PM IST

BySukanya Datta

Lather, rinse, record: A new book traces the ancient history of dhobis of Delhi

They’ve been here since the founding of Shahjahanabad, says SM Channa. Her book explores their world then, and how they are now being edged out of their city.

A dhobi at work in Jangpura, Delhi. (HT Archives)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:57 PM IST

ByBhanuj Kappal

Leaps of fate: See how people of the past attempted to predict the future

Spiders, parchment, bone and complex math were among the methods ancient cultures used. What drives this need? Who are the soothsayers in our midst today?

A 19th-century Chinese wheel of fortune. (Courtesy Divination, Oracles & Omens)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 05:26 PM IST

ByAnesha George

Landscape view: How the bungalow, born in Bengal,took on new shapes across India

Hybrid formats in Mysuru. A modernist take in Lutyens’ Delhi. Art Deco in Mumbai... see how each of these evolved, what made them special.

The Shovabazar Rajbari in Kolkata. The grandeur of these erstwhile homes came at a price. It cost about 10 times as much to build a bungalow in Kolkata as it did elsewhere in colonised India. (Getty Images)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 02:30 PM IST

BySukanya Datta

Plot twist: How the bungalow was born in India and has travelled the world since

All bungalows have their roots in colonial Bengal. See how they spread, how the style evolved. Tour the 21st-century inheritors of this tradition.

The Manale Tea Bungalow, built in the 1800s, in Munnar, Kerala. (Wikimedia Commons)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 02:27 PM IST

ByRachna Shetty

The Living Air: Read an excerpt from the book on birding by Aasheesh Pittie

What’s the best way to ease oneself into the world of birds? An excerpt from a chapter titled My Kind of Birding.

The Living Air: The Pleasures of Birds and Birding was published by Indian Pitta in 2023.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 01:15 PM IST

ByAasheesh Pittie

No need to multi-mask: Life Hacks with Charles Assisi

We all assume different personas, as a survival hack. How else would we deal with the world? I’m trying a new way: a whole self, honest, intact.

Deux Tetes (Two Heads) by Karel Appel; 1953. (Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 11:32 PM IST

ByCharles Assisi

How does one perfect a staple? Swetha Sivakumar’s go-to recipe for aloo-beans

Getting beans right is tricky. They must be neither soggy nor chewy, yet infused with flavour. ‘I found a recipe that truly does it all,’ Sivakumar says.

The no-fail aloo-beans. ‘It’s been such a success, my daughter said I could make it every week,’ says Sivakumar.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 05:59 PM IST

BySwetha Sivakumar

That sudden urge to jump from a high place? It has a name: the call of the void

See how the urge to leap likely served an evolutionary purpose - and how it is connected to a larger group of strange musings, called intrusive thoughts.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 04:20 PM IST

ByAnesha George

Weekend Planner (April 12-13): Delhi-NCR residents, you must check this out!

Weekend Planner (April 12-13): Delhi-NCR residents, here's everything you must check out!

htcity

Published on Apr 12, 2025 01:23 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

The wrong side of the spotlight: Deepanjana Pal writes on The Studio

The new Apple series will make you cringe and giggle, but it is also a sharp look at a film industry yearning for its golden age, amid a slide.

Seth Rogen seems like an unlikely choice at first, for the role of a studio head. In minutes, though, it is hard to imagine anyone else playing the part.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 07:34 PM IST

ByDeepanjana Pal

Tooning in: Avatars are replacing sportstars on tennis courts, football pitches

At basketball games and Grand Slams, players are getting animated makeovers. Parallel live feeds are wooing a younger, multi-tasking audience. See how it works.

The NFL streamed a Simpsons-themed Dallas Cowboys vs Cincinnati Bengals game, in December. (ESPN)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 07:00 PM IST

BySukanya Datta

Capital: Read an excerpt from the award-winning book by Rana Dasgupta

The British author wrote about a rapidly transforming Delhi, during his 17 years there, in the early Aughts. Snapshots from a time of upheaval and expectation.

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 04:37 PM IST

ByRana Dasgupta

The state we’re in: Rana Dasgupta on awards, AI, the decline of the nation-state

He recently won the Windham-Campbell prize, and it comes at just the right time, Dasgupta says – as he was tussling with the writer’s place in a world of AI.

(Courtesy Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 11:20 PM IST

ByKanika Sharma

The pace maker: Indian runner Gulveer Singh is breaking new ground

He is set to be India’s first 10,000m runner to qualify directly for the Olympics. But why aren’t there more like him? There should be.

If Gulveer Singh can shave a few seconds more off his time, he could truly become one of the global elite. (Courtesy SAI / X)

lifestyle

Updated on Apr 05, 2025 02:25 PM IST

ByRudraneil Sengupta

A Beta world: A peek into the future of the next generation

A majority of Gen Beta will live into the 22nd century. They'll be the first to grow up with AI, says Mark McCrindle, who coined the terms Gen Alpha and Beta.

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 03:26 PM IST

ByAnesha George

Fleshy, flame-born, voracious: The world’s strangest flowers

There are some straight out of a horror movie: Parasites that burst from a vine. Others seem woven out of fantasy: translucent white ghosts, blooms born of fire

The carnivorous California pitcher. Read on to see how it traps its prey. (Wikimedia Commons)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 03:43 PM IST

BySukanya Datta

A mouthful of sky: Vir Sanghvi interviews chef Gaggan Anand

After losses, a divorce and pandemic-induced debt, he’s back at #1 on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list. ‘I had to make it back to prove it wasn’t over,’ he says.

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 03:25 PM IST

ByVir Sanghvi

Ancient billboard: Tiny tales emerge from Kashmiri epigraphs

A new project is archiving the bits of history detailed in these stone tablets at monuments: tales of Hindus working on a masjid; Muslims restoring a mosque.

The epigraph at the 600-year-old Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. (Wikimedia Commons, Hakim Sameer Hamdani, Tabish Haider / Barakat Trust)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 10:21 PM IST

ByNatasha Rego

Cricket has a new superhero: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on Glenn Phillips

He flies through the air. He vanquishes his opponents. The New Zealander is proving, all over again, that fielding done right is an art form.

Phillips in action, during the recent Champions Trophy match against India. (ANI)

lifestyle

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 10:13 PM IST

ByRudraneil Sengupta

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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.

When friends, or ex-lovers, drift apart, it may leave no bruises. But it’s still hard to reconcile, isn’t it, the quiet loss of a bond that once meant so much?

There was a time when we had Gullak, Panchayat, Bandish Bandits. Why is a vivid vampire flick the best thing I can currently recommend?

Psycho, of course. But also The Lady Vanishes, and The 39 Steps. A century since his first film, Narayanan puts together a list of fan and critic favourites.

At 45, Nikku Madhusudhan has made the discovery of a lifetime. How did he know where to look? What else could these gas signatures be? An exclusive interview.

His books are a mix of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English. These are the many Indias he has known. What keeps the pulp-fiction legend ticking?

What makes someone grow the biggest pumpkin or bake the largest loaf in the world? Exactly how risky are those eating competitions? Take a look.

Artist and researcher Rachel Thomas traces childhood scars, everyday cruelties – and vital research around medical bias, anthropology, history.

They’ve been here since the founding of Shahjahanabad, says SM Channa. Her book explores their world then, and how they are now being edged out of their city.

Spiders, parchment, bone and complex math were among the methods ancient cultures used. What drives this need? Who are the soothsayers in our midst today?

Hybrid formats in Mysuru. A modernist take in Lutyens’ Delhi. Art Deco in Mumbai... see how each of these evolved, what made them special.

All bungalows have their roots in colonial Bengal. See how they spread, how the style evolved. Tour the 21st-century inheritors of this tradition.

What’s the best way to ease oneself into the world of birds? An excerpt from a chapter titled My Kind of Birding.

We all assume different personas, as a survival hack. How else would we deal with the world? I’m trying a new way: a whole self, honest, intact.

Getting beans right is tricky. They must be neither soggy nor chewy, yet infused with flavour. ‘I found a recipe that truly does it all,’ Sivakumar says.

See how the urge to leap likely served an evolutionary purpose - and how it is connected to a larger group of strange musings, called intrusive thoughts.

Weekend Planner (April 12-13): Delhi-NCR residents, here's everything you must check out!

The new Apple series will make you cringe and giggle, but it is also a sharp look at a film industry yearning for its golden age, amid a slide.

At basketball games and Grand Slams, players are getting animated makeovers. Parallel live feeds are wooing a younger, multi-tasking audience. See how it works.

The British author wrote about a rapidly transforming Delhi, during his 17 years there, in the early Aughts. Snapshots from a time of upheaval and expectation.

He recently won the Windham-Campbell prize, and it comes at just the right time, Dasgupta says – as he was tussling with the writer’s place in a world of AI.

He is set to be India’s first 10,000m runner to qualify directly for the Olympics. But why aren’t there more like him? There should be.

A majority of Gen Beta will live into the 22nd century. They'll be the first to grow up with AI, says Mark McCrindle, who coined the terms Gen Alpha and Beta.

There are some straight out of a horror movie: Parasites that burst from a vine. Others seem woven out of fantasy: translucent white ghosts, blooms born of fire

After losses, a divorce and pandemic-induced debt, he’s back at #1 on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list. ‘I had to make it back to prove it wasn’t over,’ he says.

A new project is archiving the bits of history detailed in these stone tablets at monuments: tales of Hindus working on a masjid; Muslims restoring a mosque.

He flies through the air. He vanquishes his opponents. The New Zealander is proving, all over again, that fielding done right is an art form.

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