It’s hosting season—when homes glow warmer, doors stay open longer, and the table takes centre stage. From intimate winter gatherings to glittering Christmas di ...

Traditionally, every Chettiar home once had a pettagam—a weighty iron chest that held not just jewels, but clothes, and what-have-you. Now Pettagam, the newly o ...

V Lakshman’s story begins with a word: house, which he spelt correctly. It was during admission to an English-medium school, something the teacher opposed becau ...

Goa gleams like a jewel in the Arabian Sea, its sun-drenched beaches whispering promises of escape, where azure waves cradle barefoot dreams and the air hums wi ...

There are two things I remember distinctively in my great grandmother’s house—a red oxide floor, gleaming like water, cool and unmarred by tile-style boundaries ...

At first glance, they look like cities caught mid-air—towers hovering above cracked earth, staircases leading nowhere, bridges that seem to levitate. But linger ...

Lionel Messi didn’t leave Kolkata early because of heat, fatigue, or scheduling issues. He left because admiration in India has a habit of curdling into mob own ...

I was out with a group of friends last weekend. We’d gone to a restaurant where a friend’s husband, always extrovertish, chatted with the security guard, the ba ...

Written by Fauzia Rafique and translated from Punjabi by Haider Shahbaz, Keeru carries within it an unusually long and wandering gestation. Rafique first began ...

At six, standing on tiptoes behind a podium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Anirudh Rao explained how he planned to “control wind.” The idea, he tol ...

Children, we are always gripped by the fear of something or the other, and this is killing us every minute. Fear haunts us whether we are awake or asleep. We ar ...

Vincent Van Gogh once famously said, “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” The story of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens reflects th ...