Sujatha Shankar Kumar on indigenous architecture and designs emerging at Auroville

Confused about how to revamp your home? Ranjani Rajendra has a few helpful suggestions

EcoTec Engineers and Consultants have introduced a rental scheme for sewage treatment plants. Kannan Pasupathiraj, managing director, tells us how builders, building associations and even municipalities can benefit from the scheme

Pre-cast structures can be used for construction of residential buildings as well, but choosing the right kind of structures ideal to the city we live in is necessary.

Bungalows are the ultimate real estate investment vehicle, as their value grows in tandem with the appreciation of land prices in a locality.

The challenges in presenting SmartCity Proposals. RANJANI GOVIND has the details

Having dealt with yet another severe monsoon, the city is limping back to normal. Nidhi Adlakha writes about the impact on buildings and what went wrong.

The good old aquarium has undergone a sea change, finds out M.L. Mahesh

A look at how building code violations in basement design have been overlooked

An architectural marvel is tucked away in the folds of forests and peaks near Panaji in Goa.

The author writes on unchecked, illegal realty growth along the city’s eco-sensitive zones and how the city’s ecology has been destroyed in the name of development

Our urban spaces lack sensitivity in planning, design, and functionality, says Nandhini Sundar

Teja Lele Desai gives you nine ideas that designers swear by

With wallpapers as their muse, designers are exploring maximalism through motifs inspired by nature and architecture 

Raw Mango’s Sanjay Garg fuses Mughal and Rajputana traditions to create a joyful line in jewel tones for the festive season

Faisal Manzur of Faisal Manzur Design Studio on designing the stunning wooden doors at Chennai’s The Entrance Café, Pandan Club, and why he draws inspiration from TV shows and Wes Anderson movies

Designers from across the country share their One Zero Eight and khadi collaborative experience 

Meet the Indian designers doing away with cramped classrooms and dull walls and prioritising schools with flexible furniture, collaborative spaces, and interactive elements

Ceramic artist Rahul Kumar’s tenth solo exhibition, The Untold Resides Somewhere, is a labyrinth of emotive, lexical and metaphorical expressions for “preserving the discarded”

There’s something about a World Cup campaign that evokes thoughts of completion and a curiosity in other aspects of life.

The Delhi police FIR and NYT reporting on foreign influence operations share the same outlook

In denying visas for fans from Pakistan for the cricket world cup, India have displayed a churlishness that sits badly on a nation of its size and influence

Bishan Singh Bedi always spoke his mind; diplomacy was an alien concept. Yet, even if you didn’t agree with him, you knew his ideas came from a place of purity and concern.

This is sport. Unexpectedness and upsets are what it thrives on.

Why are we often obsessed with what others are going to think, asks Phuphee

In a country of a billion and a half, you can’t make a statement without millions finding fault with it. Social media trolls are a menace, so players keep out of their way.

Test cricket may be rushing to its end faster than we imagined, and in the next decade younger fans will need to be told what it was and why it no longer existed

You can put down the below-par performances in the Cape Town Test to technical deficiencies in batting, yet you come to the philosophical question: Can we really know anything for certain? Also, does everything have to make sense?

If fortune favours the brave, it also tends to desert the timid, which is what India were in the Hyderabad Test

The government stuck to the theme as it raised the capex outlay for the coming financial year to Rs.11.11 lakh crore, an increase of 11%

The continued focus on increased capital investments will result in generation of employment opportunities while MSME-centric initiatives will help them compete globally; the Budget also promotes sustainable growth  

Selection cannot be an exact science; there are too many variables from differing match conditions to untested mental abilities of the players. And luck, of course.

Not so long ago our best players came from the cities and traditional centres: Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai. For a little over a generation now, they have emerged from the old backwaters. This continues.

In many ways, Ashwin stands alone. He is constantly experimenting, constantly pushing himself, and always fighting two battles every time he steps onto the field.

Kuldeep Yadav made his mark over a decade ago and now, as he says, he has begun to understand his bowling. Wrist spin is a difficult art, one of the toughest in the game.

Ahead of the T20 World Cup, the progress made by India’s two best batters will be followed even more keenly as the IPL unfolds

With the birth of a baby you gain something precious, but you also lose something of yourself. This is when support and a sisterhood become essential

Surely in the thousands of spectators across the country, there is someone with a sense of humour, someone who can raise a heckle without raising a hackle.

Occasionally a line emerges that causes the kind of surprise a maiden over might.

Phuphee’s lesson on celebrating the power of individuality

There exists a literary practice where old favourites are given fresh adventures by later writers. These are mostly well written, and respect the backstories the original authors gave their characters

James Anderson played for long and reinvented himself periodically, cutting pace for accuracy and bowling with a grace and seeming lack of effort which is one of the game’s great sights.

It might be politically incorrect to say this, but America isn’t ready to embrace cricket yet

I am excellent at saying ‘I’. Happily, it is also the most important word for the swearing-inner

By unifying disparate island-countries and building a world-class team, Frank Worell ensured “West Indies” became a single entity in the sport.

From Akbar’s rupiya to the Rupay app that’s going international, tracing the adventurous run of India’s currency

When both the character and the actor are brilliant in their own right, we get something close to perfection