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A glimpse into sweet-making, one of country’s oldest professions




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Justice Richard H Bernstein on how people with disabilities make for good judges




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How silk cotton trees celebrate togetherness of beings




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Anju Dodiya: ‘The creative process is a violent one’




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Inside the fast, furious and sometimes feudal world of kambala




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Mrunmayee Lagoo on co-writing Thappad and the female gaze




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Menopause marks the end of something, but it doesn’t mean your life is over




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Writer and former IPS officer Vibhuti Narain Rai on the anatomy of riots




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When a banking-sector crisis hits, even the most devoted patriots are hurt




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Discovering the cultural wealth of rural West Bengal




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The many joys that songbirds bring




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The surprising Bengali connection of a Braj sweet shop in Delhi’s Kamla Nagar




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The quaint charms of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort




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How Mizoram fell in love with Korean pop culture




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Designer Rahul Mishra on why fashion has to be “slow” if it is to be sustainable




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Why young Marathi director Suraj Parasnis’ plays are drawing the young to the theatre




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Why does Lake Tahoe in California, US, never freeze?




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Geetika Vidya Ohlyan: “How can one not be political in their choices?”




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How the Chinese are coping with being in quarantine




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Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Smriti Mundhra on how she made St Louis Superman




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Isolation Words: Pandemics are the petri-dish for fiction




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On the irresistible charms of chhole bhature




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Social distancing: Time to find enduring ways of being together




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Why the Shaheen Bagh dadis remind me of my grandmothers




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How COVID-19 makes us reimagine our workspaces and the way we work




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How a Bhopal-based publisher is changing the rules of children’s literature in Hindi




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Dibakar Banerjee: ‘You can’t walk into the world of filmmaking with a fragile heart’




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Inimitable Irrfan




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What Satyajit Ray’s Ghare Baire tells us about our age of aggressive nationalism




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Did we bring COVID-19 on us?




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Why Kolkatans Love Sipping History at Paramount




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Why COVID-19 pandemic may change how we view individual rights




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How to introduce children to birdwatching




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WhatsApp Uncle discovers the downside of social distancing




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When Tagore accused Gandhi of superstition




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Poet of the Fall: The humane verses of Kashmir’s Madhosh Balhami




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Cyrus Mistry: ‘Our lives are more deceitful than we admit’




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Swedish writer Zac O’Yeah, who made India his home decades ago, wonders if this is the end of the road for wanderlust




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Roberto Benigni: We will always need a fairy tale




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Why JBS Haldane was one of the finest biologists of the 20th century




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Bringing home the holidays




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On the joys of room-travel




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Viral Trap: Remembering the human stories behind the coronavirus news




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What to read to counter viral pseudo-scientific information?




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Love in the Time of Corona




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ZeeZee Warriors




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Laura Spinney: ‘We learn from each new outbreak, but not enough’




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What is a writer’s role in an anxiety-ridden world?




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Remembering Pandit Ravi Shankar’s sublime notes in his centenary year




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Lives Interrupted