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The odd squad: On World Environment Day, meet the strangest species around us

India, June 5 -- There are aliens, of a kind, among us. Some creatures on our wild, wonderful planet are so strange, they could just as well have come from outer space. One kind of sea slug can sepa... Read More


In a batter place

India, May 31 -- This isn't a typical cookbook. It doesn't contain sections on appetizers, entrees, mains and desserts. What it does hold out are simple, no-frills recipes left by the dead for the liv... Read More


First-

India, April 26 -- A mong the earliest surviving pieces of writing is a sort of bar tab. About 5,300 years ago, in the city of Uruk in present-day Iraq, a man named Kushim was in charge of a storage f... Read More


First-word problems: What did the earliest writers write about?

India, April 25 -- History is said to date to the first records about our species; everything before that is even more apocryphal, shrouded in the mists of prehistory. Writing is what made the differ... Read More


Word on the street

India, April 19 -- "Kokh ke andhere se kabra ke andhere tak (From the darkness of the womb to the darkness of the grave)," says a poster that serves as a comment on female infanticide, violence agains... Read More


Picture perfect: See more posters from Zubaan's feminist archive

India, April 18 -- Poster Women is celebrating 20 years with an exhibition (on until May 17) organised in collaboration with the gallery Arthshila Art Spaces, which opened at Santiniketan in March. Th... Read More


Word on the street: Trace the story of India's feminist movement through posters

India, April 17 -- * "Kokh ke andhere se kabra ke andhere tak (From the darkness of the womb to the darkness of the grave)," says a poster that serves as a comment on female infanticide, violence agai... Read More


Ctrl

India, April 5 -- It started, with pirates. "I have always been really interested in people. What makes people tick? How do people organise? What scuppers people's dreams and how do they get back at t... Read More


Ctrl-Alt-Deceit: Anja Shortland discusses crime, ransomware and you

India, April 3 -- It started, with pirates. "I have always been really interested in people. What makes people tick? How do people organise? What scuppers people's dreams and how do they get back at ... Read More


Metro morphosis: Is the subway station the new frontier of architecture?

India, March 28 -- In Naples, Dante and two active volcanoes form the inspiration for a subway stop designed by Anish Kapoor. In Paris, an inverted skyscraper lets playful natural light dance all the... Read More