We have to minimise the damage to nature and convince ourselves about eco-friendly architecture in terms of alternative design approaches.

An eastward tilt is in the offing in the global design movement with Indian and Chinese designers, architects and artists forging a new camaraderie.

Ramanujan IT City has adopted the Main Street architectural style. Hema Vijay takes a look.

Winning a competition for their vertical living design is a boost for architects Suraksha Bhatla and Sharan Sundar.

Charles Correa firmly believed that architecture and urban design were instruments for social change. A tribute by Durganand Balsavar.

Why wait for years when you can move into your new home immediately? Nidhi Adlakha captures the trend of ready-to-move-in homes.

If resort architecture can create an ambience for good living, why cannot we adopt such ideas for every building, wonders Sathya Prakash Varanashi

Individual action, citizen group action and putting pressure on institutions of governance can make it happen

The writer on why the humble brick scores over the much-cheaper block masonry

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

A mixture of crushed pieces of tyres and sand around the foundations can protect buildings during an earthquake, civil engineers say in a special release from the Indian Institute of Science.

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.

Water has to be treated with respect and demand management is the key, says S. Vishwanath

The staircase is an important design element that adds colour, visual interest and panache to your home.

City-based architects Gayatri Gunjal and Suraksha Bhatia about their start-ups and long-term vision

Efficient lighting at low cost must be considered as a national priority, and it is time to tap the potential of LED. By K. Sukumaran.

There are many varieties of glass that are suitable for Chennai’s hot, tropical climate

Luxury living in today’s context is a 360-degree lifestyle equation that cannot be limited to elegant superficialities

Ten tips that you could try out

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

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

Priced ₹3 lakh-₹50 lakh, these flexible structures have caught the attention of homebuyers in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Hyderabad and Maharashtra, says Avneesh Sood

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

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.

Why healing others can come at a personal price, and words of comfort can cause more harm than good

If England is a shining example for its approach to Test cricket, their One-Day International approach is a warning.

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?

Fifty years on, since Karnataka famously won the Ranji Trophy at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, we should ask ourselves, wouldn’t it be wonderful to sit in the Viswanath stand or cheer from the Prasanna enclosure?

‘The underlying theme was clearly fiscal consolidation with an ability to maintain the infrastructure spends at the existing run rate’

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.

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.

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.

Patrons of fashion and design, tawaifs weren’t mere entertainers. Their stories still inspire, as explored in Netflix’s new series, Heeramandi

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.

Euripides, the Greek playwright, got it right centuries ago: one loyal friend, he said, is worth ten thousand relatives

Engaging with vernacular diversity is a practical way to convey biodiversity concerns and values. It also helps to understand the plural ways in which communities value nature. June 5 is World Environment Day

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

Wokeness, like political correctness, can tear when it is stretched too tight

Every player is capable of one moment of greatness in a career, but the best players have many of them, and closer together.

The story of Ram travelled across the seas, and Thailand’s erstwhile capital Ayutthaya is proof

The wedding kept a nation entertained and brought joy to all those who have nothing in their lives but a loin cloth and a colour TV