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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New Delhi, May 30 -- Even in a world where sugar is the big villain in the struggle for good health, it's easy to make a case for ice cream. You could be at a table full of people who each have a diff... Read More
New Delhi, May 23 -- Karnataka has closed most of its trails, just about a month after it issued guidelines and safety protocols for trekking, including regulation of single-use plastic and waste disp... Read More