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Published on Sep 30, 2023 11:47 AM IST
An HT special on the 100th birth anniversary of Dev Anand.
Just Like That | A fine line of what's socially correct when East meets West
At the intersection of civilizations lies a dilemma felt most keenly by immigrants and diplomats: follow the dominant idiom, or the mores of one's homeland?
Updated on Jun 12, 2023 12:51 PM IST
Gita Gopinath: Recovery agent
After picking economics by happenstance as a Delhi teen, Gopinath, 50, went on to study at Princeton, teach at Harvard, and is now set to be the first deputy MD at IMF, guiding world economies amid the devastating blows of the pandemic.
Published on Dec 19, 2021 11:31 AM IST
Sunetra Choudhury, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
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Photos: Six Indian sites vying for a spot on the UNESCO World Heritage list
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Updated on Jul 25, 2021 04:20 PM IST
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#AnimalSounds:Check out how Rohit Chakravarty is making bat calls audible
His Instagram page now features audio clips of other creatures too, and he’s betting you can’t tell what they are.
Updated on Oct 11, 2020 10:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Natasha Rego
Capital in lockdown: Stories from around Delhi-NCR amid coronavirus pandemic
Mayank Austen Soofi aka Delhiwale picks six stories that capture the essence of what has been lost, as life in Delhi endures during the pandemic. Read on to find out which one is the most heart touching.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | HT Correspondent
Mumbai in the time of coronavirus pandemic
We asked six master artists — the poet Javed Akhtar, photographer Sooni Taraporevala, writer Shanta Gokhale, and artists Sudhir Patwardhan, Sudarshan Shetty and Sameer Kulavoor — what the lockdown had meant to them. Here’s what they had to say.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | HT Correspondent
Sudhir Patwardhan’s exclusive artwork Departure depicts the frailty of Mumbai as home
In July, Hindustan Times invited artist Sudhir Patwardhan to create an original work that centred around the theme of the Mumbai and the pandemic. The work is a line drawing titled Departure, and it is a visceral portrayal of three migrants with a child walking with luggage through a deserted street.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Dhamini Ratnam
A universe of meaning
In a 2019 work titled Pieces Earth Left Behind, Sudarshan Shetty displayed 99 pieces of wooden sculptures, each modeled on an object that he found in Mumbai’s Chor Bazaar, a place where old, disused items find a new lease of life.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 01:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Dhamini Ratnam
Art in an apocalypse
Like everyone else, I’ve felt like I was in the middle of an apocalypse, hearing about natural disasters, man-made disasters, blasts, politics fuelled by religion and God knows what else.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 10:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Sameer Kulavoor
Hum-safar: Fellow Traveller a poem by Javed Akhtar. Watch video
Read the English translation and watch Javed Akhtar recite the original Urdu version of his poem Hum-safar about what the coronavirus lockdown meant to the poet and writer.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 10:10 AM IST
Mumbai | Javed Akhtar (Translated from the Urdu version by Rakhshanda Jalil)
A walk in the park
English and Marathi writer Shanta Gokhale shares a story about a family during the coronavirus lockdown, and how a wife will stop at nothing to protect herself and her husband.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 10:36 AM IST
Mumbai | Shanta Gokhale
Housekeeper of Hauz Khas
For 20 years, Kamni has been working as a housekeeper to scores of one-room pads in Hauz Khas Village, rented mostly by single people pursuing all sorts of occupations. Most of her employers went back home after the Covid-19-triggered lockdown started, because of job losses or salary cuts, leaving Kamni with less income.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
Our need for human connection stays
Mumbai chronicler Sooni Taraporevala writes about Mumbai during lockdown, “I took myself to the sea that has been part of my childhood and adult years — whether it was zipping down Marine Drive on the back of my dad’s scooter or photographing Parsis at prayer on the day and month of Ava, the water divinity; for me, the sea fronts are the most iconic feature of our city.”
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 10:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Sooni Taraporevala
Yellow Pages on Delhi’s walls: With the city shuttered amid Covid-19, vendors leave their phone numbers behind
When the markets shut down, when the Delhi Metro trains stopped running, and those who had the luxury of a house exiled themselves within it; when the sky regained its blue, the streets emptied out, and all stalls that had no shutter to pull down had to close too, some left their phone numbers behind.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
Her elegy to the ordinary: An IT professional’s ode to city life in coronavirus pandemic times
Jonaki Ray has a day job in an IT company, as a technical editor. She no longer has to commute to Noida to mark her office attendance — thank you, Coronavirus! — and wrote a pandemic-era city-life poem for these pages.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
Vowels of the street in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo
In Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo, each door on the long winding street is marked with an ‘O’ or ‘E’ painted in yellow. While easing up the Coronavirus-triggered lockdown, the Delhi government had announced that shops could finally open for business on an “Odd-Even basis”, and that’s what the ‘O’s and ‘E’s allot.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
From choir to duet: Ramayan Paath in the times of coronavirus
Every July, Kshetra Pal and his wife, Pushpa, hold Ramayan Paath, a continuous 24-hour reading of the complete Ramcharitmanas, at their home in Ghaziabad. But how were they to do this during the Covid-19 pandemic when any gathering was deemed life threatening?
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 04:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
Do you have apocalypse anxiety?
A tightness in the chest, state of constant low-key worry, the sense that nature, the economy and life as we knew it just aren’t ever going to be the same. The pandemic has sparked doomsday anxiety
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 10:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Zara Murao
The science of forming good habits... and making them stick
The key lies in neither willpower nor virtue, but in being able to trick your mind.
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 10:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vanessa Viegas
A guerrilla gardener working in secret creates a forest in Kolkata
Advocate Mantu Hait started out with a few saplings, and a determination to clear the garbage off a vacant Port Trust plot. The self-sustaining forest is now a haven for residents... and birds.
Updated on Sep 05, 2020 12:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Madhusree Ghosh
A playlist to shake off the Covid blues
Hindustan Times editor Sukumar Ranganathan presents five songs, all released in the past few months as the world grappled with a virus and a lockdown
Updated on Sep 04, 2020 08:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Sukumar Ranganathan
Harpreet Singh is carving the Punjabi music and film industry with creative content
Harpreet Singh, has made his name synonymous with the Punjab music and film industry by becoming a renowned producer of the same.
Updated on Aug 10, 2020 06:11 PM IST
Her, in your ear: Female podcasters on food, science, history and more
Women make up barely a third of most best-podcast lists. Don’t miss out. Here are some riveting casts by women on food, science, history, birding and more.
Updated on Jun 22, 2020 10:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Do you love yourself? Here’s why you should
Most of us don’t think about our relationship with ourselves, yet that is a defining element in any relationship we set out to have with others.
Updated on Jun 22, 2020 10:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Simran Mangharam
Cycling in the times of Covid-19: From freedom to fitness to distancing
As Atlas shuts its last manufacturing plant, a look at all that bicycles have meant to India, from the Raj era to the pandemic.
Updated on Jun 22, 2020 10:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Poonam Saxena
Indian couples discuss why they chose to have just one child
Giving their little one the best life they can, without having to split resources, time or attention, emerges as a prime reason.
Updated on Mar 02, 2020 04:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez