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

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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)

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:47 PM IST

The vault in our stars: Rudraneil Sengupta on Indian gymnastics

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

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:45 PM IST

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

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

Updated on May 03, 2025 05:44 PM IST

The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide

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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 ₹12.80 lakh. (Pixabay)

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 AM IST

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

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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).

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:14 PM IST

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

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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.

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 02:58 PM IST

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

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Updated on Apr 25, 2025 02:35 PM IST

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

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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.

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:07 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:59 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:54 PM IST

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

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Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:51 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:57 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 05:26 PM IST

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

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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)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 02:30 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 02:27 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 01:15 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 11:32 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 05:59 PM IST

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

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(Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 04:20 PM IST

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

Discover the best films, food fests, fitness, and cultural events in Delhi-NCR with HT City's Weekend Planner.

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Published on Apr 12, 2025 01:23 PM IST

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

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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.

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 07:34 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 07:00 PM IST

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

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Updated on Apr 11, 2025 04:37 PM IST

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

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(Courtesy Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes)

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 11:20 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Apr 05, 2025 02:25 PM IST

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

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(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 03:26 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 03:43 PM IST

A mouthful of sky: Vir Sanghvi interviews chef Gaggan Anand

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(HT Archives)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 03:25 PM IST

Ancient billboard: Tiny tales emerge from Kashmiri epigraphs

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

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 10:21 PM IST

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

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

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 10:13 PM IST