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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


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