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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


Big bang theory: The intriguing history of fireworks

India, Oct. 17 -- As with so many dramatic inventions, the first firecracker may have been born of an accident. In 1st century BCE China, it is said, someone tossed a hollow bamboo stalk into a fire ... Read More


Taylor Swift's 'The Life Of A Showgirl' only offers lacklustre mediocrity

New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- In the lead-up to Taylor Swift's twelfth studio album The Life Of A Showgirl, bakery chain Baked By Melissa released a special limited-edition set of cupcakes inspired by the wor... Read More


Slipknot's debut album remains a subversive, genre-crossing masterpiece

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across an AI video on Twitter peddling a schmalzy, sepia-tinged vision of 1990s America. Algorithmically generated teenagers in baggy denim and... Read More


For better and verse

India, Aug. 30 -- It's a balmy March night in Mumbai. Lollapalooza 2025 has ended on a high note. Louis Tomlinson, Glass Animals and Hanumankind played to 60,000-odd attendees. Green Day closed the sh... Read More


Wind of change: How India is making gigs safer and smoother

India, Aug. 29 -- It's a balmy March night in Mumbai. Lollapalooza 2025 has just ended on a high note. Louis Tomlinson, Glass Animals and Hanumankind played to 60,000-odd attendees. Green Day closed t... Read More


Wind of change: How India is making gigs safer and smoother

India, Aug. 29 -- It's a balmy March night in Mumbai. Lollapalooza 2025 has just ended on a high note. Louis Tomlinson, Glass Animals and Hanumankind played to 60,000-odd attendees. Green Day closed t... Read More


Speaking in Morris code

India, Aug. 24 -- Anyone can use his designs. It has after all been nearly 130 years since William Morris died (aged 62, on October 3, 1896). To celebrate his ubiquity, and mark its 75th anniversary, ... Read More