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Every year, on the second Sunday of May, we celebrate mothers. We thank them for their sacrifices, patience and love. But there is a particular kind...
The next time a Hollywood costume makes you pause, look a little closer. Maybe it is Belle’s yellow gown catching the light in Beauty and the Beast....
In a small village in Tamil Nadu, a man once found himself at the centre of ridicule for doing something most people refused to even speak about. He...
Picture this: you are standing in a village in Leh in February. Snow is everywhere — on the rooftops, packed into the mountain slopes, gleaming off...
The clock read 4 am when a seven-year-old boy slipped into the dark waters off Talaimannar, Sri Lanka. No fanfare, just the sea, stars, and a child...
Picture a typical afternoon in a Delhi neighbourhood. Retired men gathered in parks, talking about their aches and their children's careers,...
At the steps of Varanasi Ghats, where the rhythms of ritual and tourism overlap, a local guide known as Mr Deep has become the centre of an unexpected...
Ask most people what a firefighter does, and the answer comes quickly: they put out fires. The helmet, the hose, the red engine screaming down the...
In a modest community space tucked behind Chennai’s bustling IT corridor in Perungudi, a group of women gather every afternoon, their hands moving...
What if reading didn’t have to be a solitary habit anymore? Imagine this: you walk into a park, a café, or a quiet corner of the city with a book...
Paisley (Kairi/Mango) Region: Kashmir & South IndiaPeriod: 16th–19th century (Mughal era onward)The paisley entered India through Persian...
In a city where glass towers rise on the backs of daily wage labour, one construction worker in Chennai is quietly challenging what strength — and...
It starts with a faint buzz, followed by a slap and then another. Before you know it, your child is up at 2 am, itchy, cranky, and wide awake. In...
On a packed stage in 2026, Samay Raina stood in front of an audience again after months away. His new set, Still Alive, came after a period when his...
Deep in the forests of Nagaland, two elderly healers — aged 85 and 78 — have been treating the sick for over four decades using nothing but plants...
Picture a hot afternoon in Shelakewadi, a small village 14 km from Kolhapur. The kind of afternoon where all you want is a fan that stays on. In...
What if the value of your vote could change, not because you moved, but because the boundaries around you did? That’s the question at the heart of...
At 17,560 feet above sea level, where the air thins and silence settles over jagged Himalayan ridges, 28-year-old Divya Singh stood beside her...
On 13 April 2026, the 106th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, a set of voices that colonial rule once tried to erase is finally being...
In Manipur, where cycles of violence have shaped everyday life for decades, loss is not an isolated event. It lingers — in disrupted households,...
On the lush-green campus of IIT Madras, where humans and animals coexist in harmony, one familiar presence has been brightening stressful academic...
In the vast, wind-swept grasslands of Kutch, hope is walking on two fragile legs. A week-old chick of the Great Indian Bustard, one of India’s most...
For a lot of young Indians, 1 April isn’t just about taxes or salary cycles. It’s that moment when you open your bank app, scroll through recent...
As Tamil Nadu approaches its next election cycle, a group of doctors is attempting to address a familiar concern — voter apathy — with an...
What if counting over 1.4 billion Indians didn’t mean waiting for a knock on the door — but simply filling in your own details on your phone, in...
For many of us, Instagram isn’t just a place for reels and memes anymore. It’s where we share life updates with friends, discuss work with...
As India revisits its transgender rights framework through the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, for many, this isn’t...
For years, these games have been played in village grounds, in akharas, in spaces shaped by memory and practice rather than stadium lights. They have...
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