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'There has to be a better way to make sense of India's monuments'

India, Jan. 23 -- A few years ago, historian Shashank Shekhar Sinha was sightseeing in Mandu, the fortress town in Madhya Pradesh, accompanied by a local tour guide. The young man's stories about the ... Read More


Divine's gully rap gangster persona wears thin on new album

New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- Deep in the rainforests of Central and South America lives the common basilisk, a largely unremarkable little lizard that has one fantastical ability-when threatened, it can run ... Read More


The 10 best albums of 2025

New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- 2025 felt like a year where popular music was in transition, with many of the big, established stars either choosing not to release an album or dropping proper clangers (looking ... Read More


Bhanuj Kappal: Tushar Adhav and the politics of the dance floor

New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- There's a 1983 song by English new wave band Re-Flex that keeps popping up in my mind every time I find myself on an Indian club floor. As I watch a homogenous blob of India's up... Read More


Ready? Start again: Inside an archive of old gaming magazines

India, Dec. 13 -- It's easy enough to flip to a livestream, or turn to a Reddit or Discord page today, for help with a hard-to-beat level in a videogame, or for news on when the next sequel will be re... Read More


Ready? Start again: Inside an archive of gaming magazines

India, Dec. 13 -- It's easy enough to flip to a livestream, or turn to a Reddit or Discord page today, for help with a hard-to-beat level in a videogame, or for news on when the next sequel will be re... Read More


How D'Angelo's neo-soul masterpieces influenced a generation

New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- In the long history of horny sex jams, nothing quite matches up to the brilliance of D'Angelo's Untitled (How Does it Feel?). It's a seven-minute slow-burn that thrums with a tens... Read More


Click on all links?

India, Oct. 26 -- It started quietly; with single cells dividing in the dark. From that microscopic revolution came multicellular life; the strange Cambrian creatures that once ruled the seas; the fis... Read More


Click on all links: A look at the latest version of the Tree of Life

India, Oct. 25 -- It started quietly; with single cells dividing in the dark. From that microscopic revolution came multicellular life; the strange Cambrian creatures that once ruled the seas; the fi... Read More