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Saturday Feeling: The best of cinema, streaming, books, food and fashion in 2025

New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- This is the season of making lists about the year gone by and looking back even as we just want to move ahead. But often, it is reflection that helps us make better choices and t... Read More


Saturday Feeling: With a little help from AI

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- There's no doubt that 2025 has been the year of AI. Artificial Intelligence has permeated every aspect of our lives, from dating to work, and it is impossible to cover culture an... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Bar hopping with Mint Lounge

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- "The things that make a cocktail really great are often very simple details-the frozen glass, the lemon twist-that transform two fingers of alcohol into an ice-glazed elixir," wr... Read More


Saturday Feeling: When cities make space for art

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- With the cohort of writers, thinkers and artists being more or less the same at the many art and literature events across India, location becomes all the more important, and proba... Read More


Saturday Feeling: The words we're losing to GIFs and memes

New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- Listen. That's all I did one afternoon at the Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru last week. Writer after writer mounted the stage, read in a language, then in translation... Read More


Saturday Feeling: How MTV lost its way in India and other stories to read this weekend

New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- For all the years it was central to entertainment and information, the television was called 'the idiot box', and a good vs bad debate continues to swirl around it long after man... Read More


Saturday Feeling: The restaurant wars, Rushdie's new book, 'Dil Se' back in theatres, and other stories to read

New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- "There are," wrote Julian Barnes with the certainty born of experience in The Pendant in the Kitchen, "certain dishes always best eaten in restaurants, however tempting the cookb... Read More


Nobel winner David MacMillan says we're 'one catalytic reaction away' from solving climate change

New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- David MacMillan, who shared the 2021 Chemistry Nobel Prize with Benjamin List, doesn't see himself primarily as a chemist. He sees himself as a curious person who's deeply interes... Read More


Saturday Feeling: How AI has rewritten the rules of mourning

New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- Learning to live without someone you love is probably one of the hardest things to do. You're usually told about the "stages of grief" but it's not always true that grief follows ... Read More


How Zohran Mamdani and a Cambridge scientist inspire us to reimagine our cities

New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- Earlier this week, public health physician and urban epidemiologist Tolullah Oni went for a morning run in Bengaluru. She carried an air pollution monitor and her UrbanBetter City... Read More