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The art of logging off

India, July 11 -- Resin art. Messy, complicated but worth it once you level up. Most beginners go with epoxy resin, hardener, moulds, pigments, gloves, and a heat gun to pop bubbles (Rs.2,000 to Rs.5,... Read More


Scroll like it's 1999

India, July 11 -- Ah, early websites. Chunks of info dumped link by link, clusters of garish graphics. The Web Design Museum has preserved snapshots of versions of websites dating back to 1991. McDona... Read More


All the unusual suspects

India, July 11 -- In the Bengali film Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1970), directed by Satyajit Ray, four young men from Calcutta drive to Palamau (in what was then Bihar and is no... Read More


Rooted in hard truths

India, July 11 -- Imagine a coconut tree. Now, imagine rows upon rows of human figures, painstakingly carved from wood and pinned onto the tree with long, sharp nails. Their bland expressions normalis... Read More


A close-up view of 19th-century India

India, July 11 -- A visual record of India by an artist, writer and keen observer, this volume includes photographs of Emily Eden's celebrated portfolio of hand- coloured lithographs based on sketches... Read More


An early account of Himalayan travel

India, July 11 -- In 1898, the wandering ascetic Swami Ramananda Bharati set out towards one of the most remote and revered destinations in the world: Mount Kailash and Manasarovar in Tibet. Himaranya... Read More


'People don't stay in friendships if they don't want to'

India, July 11 -- 1The contents of the nightmares in Under Water are central to how it unfolds. Was it difficult or fun to write them? There are three nightmares in the book, but I wrote five. I had t... Read More


Out of the museums and onto the streets

India, July 11 -- In an era in which it is fashionable to publish tomes on geopolitics, veteran diplomat Gurjit Singh's latest book, The Durian Flavour, is a deeply insightful review of India-ASEAN (A... Read More


Take your best short

India, July 11 -- Don't look up. A crisis is brewing. On one hand, we claim that a man's height does not matter. Comedian Jaboukie Young-White coined the term Short Kings in 2018, and we've been using... Read More


Flavours of far away

India, July 11 -- When I do eat Indian in London, I tend to go to the old favourites (anything set up by the Panjabi sisters, Hoppers, Quilon and Jamavar) and rarely try anything unfamiliar. In fact, ... Read More