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Saturday Feeling: The language of art, protest and food

New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- It's been a week since Gen Z firebrands ended their protest, but most of the country is still talking about them, their anger and irreverence, their creativity and their joy. Alon... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Bengal's hilsa is swimming against the tide

New Delhi, July 25 -- It may seem like a uniquely Bengali preoccupation-does hilsa from the river or the sea taste better? Yet beneath that seemingly pedantic argument lies a host of issues including ... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Reimagining the idea of the family to encompass all kinds of love

New Delhi, July 18 -- It would take a philosopher or an academic to explain this more fully but the ancient Greeks had separate words and categories for different kinds of love, understanding that eac... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Reimagining the idea of a family

New Delhi, July 17 -- It would take a philosopher or an academic to explain this more fully but the ancient Greeks had separate words and categories for different kinds of love, understanding that eac... Read More


Saturday Feeling: The town that sends its GI-tagged jackfruit to gourmet restaurants

New Delhi, July 11 -- Since I first encountered the jackfruit at age 3 in my grandmother's garden in Chennai, I've been intrigued by the ungainly monsters. Until then, in the UK, trees I'd come across... Read More


Saturday Feeling: How to build a home or office that stays cool in summer

New Delhi, July 4 -- A few weeks ago in Bengaluru, I listened to a panel of architects from India and Europe talk about the failure of modern architecture. They're all part of a platform called SHIFT ... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Living with the sugarcane tigers of Pilibhit

New Delhi, June 27 -- "What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them," John Berger wrote years ago in About Looking (and in a slightly different context from which I'm u... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Does Barrackpore really serve the best biryani?

New Delhi, June 20 -- As a sometimes enthusiastic student of history in school, I'd often wonder what happened to those places so central to Empire-Masulipatnam, Plassey, Balasore, Barrackpore-and why... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Top of the world, centre of the climate crisis

New Delhi, June 13 -- The Arctic Circle always seemed extremely remote and disconnected from me until I came across British filmmaker Temujin Doran's documentary, North, some years ago (it's free to w... Read More


Saturday Feeling: A non-fan's guide to the FIFA World Cup 2026

New Delhi, June 6 -- I'm not a football fan-or a particular fan of any sport-but I've realised that every World Cup sends me down a rabbit hole. In 2022, I found myself in north Kerala trying to under... Read More