Critical exposure: The turning points

India, July 26 -- There's an uncanny resemblance between the hands drawn in a cave in Indonesia 10,000 years ago (see image at right) and the gesture we use to get our phones to take photos today. We ... Read More

Aim, smile, click: The photograph turns 200

India, July 25 -- We have, for millennia, been attempting to record the moment. From glass plates to film and pixels, the journey to a world of #PicsOrItDidntHappen has been revolutionary. Take a tour... Read More

Frozen, not stirred: Inside polar explorer Romain Trouble's Arctic winter quest

India, July 17 -- How does one study an ocean that disappears for large parts of the year? For about six to eight months, the Central Arctic vanishes under about 6 ft of ice. Conditions are so extrem... Read More

We munch at dawn!

India, July 12 -- It's hard to tell how far back breakfast goes. We know a bit about what ancient humans ate, but not when. That picture only becomes clearer with the arrival of the written word, and ... Read More

'Tea may be a colonial-era habit, but breakfast isn't'

India, July 12 -- For Mumbai food writer Priyadarshini Chatterjee, 39, breakfast has always been the best meal of the day. It irritated her when people called it a foreign import and argued that India... Read More

We munch at dawn!

India, July 12 -- It's hard to tell how far back breakfast goes. We know a bit about what ancient humans ate, but not when. That picture only becomes clearer with the arrival of the written word, and ... Read More

'Breakfast isn't colonial. It finds mention in the Ramayana': Wknd interviews the author of First Bite

India, July 11 -- For Mumbai food writer Priyadarshini Chatterjee, 39, breakfast has always been the best meal of the day. It irritated her when people called it a foreign import and argued that Indi... Read More

From YouTube to cinema: Horror tales are bypassing studios, exploding on the big screen

India, July 4 -- Would you watch a movie, promote it and post online about it, if you had helped write the script? Of course you would. How about if you had been chatting with the director-producer f... Read More

From YouTube to cinemas: Horror tales are bypassing studios, exploding onto the big screen

India, July 4 -- Would you watch a movie, promote it and post online about it, if you had helped write the script? Of course you would. How about if you had been chatting with the director-producer f... Read More

Wicked little letters: Some of the world's worst, and best, typos are now on display

India, June 20 -- Million-dollar lawsuits have been lost because of a missing comma, so we know how expensive a typo can be. A missing Oxford comma, in a 2017 suit against Oakhurst Dairy in Maine, ca... Read More

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