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Spectator by Seema Goswami: The great gasping

India, Oct. 31 -- In more innocent times, the arrival of winter - signaled by that early-morning or late-night nip in the air - was something to be celebrated. In my childhood home, it meant that the ... Read More


Drawing Room: Shrimanti Saha on Nilima Sheikh's unsettling art

India, Oct. 31 -- Art can delight and inspire. It can fill a space with beauty, share messages of solidarity, spark creativity. But art can also hold a mirror to uncomfortable realities, invoke shock,... Read More


Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: Pass the secret sauce

India, Oct. 31 -- Do you use cookbooks? I have to say that I don't; which may explain why I am such a bad cook. My problem is that I lack the patience to follow a recipe. And all my cooking is pretty ... Read More


Travel special: Almaty in Kazakhstan is one of the world's last secrets

India, Oct. 31 -- For Kazakhstan, don't listen to the influencers. The ones who've travelled there from India tend to be young, penniless students, making the most of the rupee's advantage over the te... Read More


Travel special: How to make big plans in little Diu

India, Oct. 31 -- There are places that look exactly like you imagined them: The pyramids of Giza, the desert sands of Morocco, the mountains of Tibet. Diu, that rarely visited island just off the co... Read More


Travel special: Why it pays to eat local on every trip

India, Oct. 31 -- Doesn't everything taste better when you are on the road? Every time I come back from a trip, I spend a few days caressing my memories. Because I eat for a living, many of the memori... Read More


Soothe operator: Why we hate AI, but love bot-generated ASMR videos

India, Oct. 31 -- Everywhere we look, the world is grappling with the onslaught of AI. There are genuine fears of job losses and collapsing economies. Authentic work of creative folks is being scraped... Read More


Hit list: Is it time to retire Top 10 lists and random rankings?

India, Oct. 31 -- Is it time to retire those Best Of, Top 10, Greatest Hits and Worst Ever rankings? Think about it. Every magazine and blog has one. They started out fine, recording what's cool, what... Read More


Travel special: How one library became the national attraction in Finland

India, Oct. 31 -- I was in Helsinki last month, as part of a Climate Solutions visit organised by the Finnish government. I was hoping the airport taxi driver would be chatty, that he'd tell me what t... Read More


Weekend Drive by Hormazd Sorabjee: Revv up and go fort

India, Oct. 24 -- There couldn't have been a more fitting starting point for the Ferrari Rajasthan Tour than Jaipur's Rambagh Palace. Once home to royalty, it now played host to a different kind of no... Read More