ENTERTAINMENT
BBC Studios' 'The Traitors' has made a killer transition from party game to reality TV. Things to consider as episodes 7 to 9 drop on OTT
In 'The Traitors India', feelings of betrayal, backstabbing, backsliding, backbiting, back talk and the just plain bickering bubble over often, but there's also celebration when the game is played well.
LIFESTYLE
How to make cold chocolate shake: 4% milk fat, 30% cacao butter content & some chocolate hacks
There are many excellent hot chocolate recipes out there. But what to do if you want a cold but indulgent chocolate shake for the hot and humid months? Tips and tricks to make cold chocolate shakes, including protein chocolate shakes with sugar alternatives like Stevia and Monk Fruit powder.
BOOKS
Yale history professor David C Engerman: Development economics was a Global South project
Professor David C Engerman on interviewing and writing about 6 famous South Asians who gave the world development economics.
BOOKS
Vikram Sampath on how to train AI to translate idioms like 'Bhains ke aage been bajana'
NAAV.AI cofounder and author of 10 books Vikram Sampath on training agentic AI for translating books into Indian regional languages, and what the speed and ease of translating with AI could mean for content across Indian languages.
BUSINESS
Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham on going 'All In': IIT-IIM and big-city background not crucial to start-up success
Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham on riding the AI wave, his 2025 memoir All In, how he prefers sharing anecdotes to giving 'gyan', and his love of chess, cars and watches.
LIFESTYLE
What you can't see on Maps: Revisiting an 1,850-km historic route to gold fields in Australia
The theme for Australia's National Reconciliation Week - from May 27 to June 3 - this year is Bridging Now to Next. The Australian High Commission in India is observing it with a show around indigenous Australian art.
LIFESTYLE
‘Exotica to be collected’: Indian plants in East India Company paintings, and a rare plant that fanned Europe's orchid-mania
An ongoing art show at DAG Delhi and a new book by Trinity College literature professor Sarah Bilston revisit two ways in which the British sought to collect plants as well as knowledge about plants from colonized countries.
BOOKS
Isabel Allende: 'The theme of refugees is in the air, in the news, in the collective consciousness. It cannot be ignored'
Novelist Isabel Allende on being 'eternally displaced', and why 1891 is a big year in her latest novel 'My Name is Emilia del Valle'.
BOOKS
The Goat Life author Benyamin: Jesus turning water into wine 'was a social transformation event'
Benyamin on why he thinks 'The Second Book of Prophets' is unlike anything he's written before, and translator Ministhy S. on why she had to read other books before taking up the Malayalam to English translation of Benyamin's latest novel.
LIFESTYLE
World Whisky Day 2025: How Indian whisky gets its flavour, and is it spicier than imported whiskies?
On World Whisky Day (May 17, 2025), we asked master distillers, distillery owners, and industry experts to explain how Indian whiskys get their distinct flavour and colour.
LIFESTYLE
Sari with kimono blouse and experimenting with different drapes: designer Ashdeen Lilaowala on how Gen Z is wearing the traditional garment
National Institute of Design Ahmedabad-graduate Ashdeen Lilaowala on the history of Parsi Gara, his new collection of printed saris, how Gen Z is wearing and styling the sari and how there's no dearth of talent when it comes to embroidery in India.
LIFESTYLE
Gulammohammed Sheikh retrospective at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art: People, places, histories
Gulammohammed Sheikh retrospective at KNMA Delhi may not be linear, but it captures six decades of the key Indian artist's thought and work across media.
OTT
After Panchayat, Gram Chikitsalaya explores merits, challenges of city-trained professionals working in Indian villages
Gram Chikitsalaya on Amazon Prime Video is not always entertaining, but it is worth a watch as a rousing story about a young government official who wants to make things right.
BOOKS
Why NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wants to build a dishwashing robot, and how he hopes to do it without breaking any plates
'Thinking Machine' author Stephen Witt on how NVIDIA's graphics processing units came to be at the forefront of artificial intelligence today, and what makes cofounder Jensen Huang tick.
LIFESTYLE
WAVES 2025: AI is going to amplify us as creatives and creators, says YouTuber Brandon B
'Will AI come for my job? Maybe at some point over the next century,' says YouTuber Brandon B who has 15.8 million subscribers on the video platform. Brandon is in Mumbai for WAVES 2025, beginning on May 1.
BOOKS
Lt Gen (Retd) Y.K. Joshi on the Kargil War, his memoir and safeguards for war in the age of social media
Lt Gen (Retd) Yogesh Kumar Joshi—who retired as Northern Army Commander in 2022—on his memoir, key lessons he learnt over his 40 years of service from 1982–2022, the Kargil War and India's relations with neighbouring countries.
LIFESTYLE
Bharatnatyam adaptation of IFS officer Jeysundhar's 'Maalyada: Andal's Secret Garland' to open in Delhi on April 26
IFS Jeysundhar D and Bharatnatyam dancer Rama Vaidyanathan on their engagement with 8th century Bhakti poet-saint Andal's Tiruppavai, and the dance adaptation of 'Maalyada: The Sacred Garland'.
INDIA
Strategic autonomy would have been a subset of Indian non-alignment, says 'Nehru Years' author
What is the legacy of Indian Non-Alignment, is strategic autonomy non-alignment by another name, and how Indian Non-Alignment was non-imperialist in its DNA—'The Nehru Years' author, Swapna Kona Nayudu, explains.
ENTERTAINMENT
The Wheel of Time Season 3 finale: A strangely poor VFX moment amid high drama
The Last Battle of the fantasy series 'The Wheel of Time' may be a long way away, but at the end of Season 3, Rand al'Thor has been declared Car'a'carn, Nynaeve has tapped into the One Power to part the sea, and Lanfear and Moraine Sedai have had the faceoff Moraine foresaw in Rhuidean.
LIFESTYLE
Must see: Attributed to Italian master Caravaggio, ‘Magdalene in Ecstasy’ is in Delhi
In 2014, art historian Mina Gregori said she had found 17th century painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's 'Magdalene in Ecstasy' in a private collection. The Italian embassy in India and KNMA have now brought this work to Delhi for public viewing.
BOOKS
'Careless People' review: 'Darkly funny' is exactly right
Alleged sexual harassment, apathy and a ridiculous amount of navel-gazing and entitlement: Former Facebook global policy head Sarah Wynn-Williams' book about working at the social media giant from 2011-17 paints a hilarious but grim picture.
BOOKS
Indian writer Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp wins GBP 50,000 International Booker 2025
Heart Lamp review: Banu Mushtaq's stories follow the lives of Muslim women who are constrained by tradition and responsibilities. Her protagonists are denied opportunities and resented for airing grievances. And yet, none of the stories reads like a lament.
INDIA
Gautam Bhatia: 'Any Constitutional document is essentially a power map of that country... India's Constitution has insufficiently democratized the colonial power map'
Lawyer and author Gautam Bhatia on what every citizen needs to know about the Indian Constitution, and spaces for public participation in our 75-year-old Constitution.
LIFESTYLE
Legacy x modernism: How to add new statement furniture and art to your home without changing your entire decor
In 2025, traditional crafts and modern precision furniture can sit comfortably together in our drawing rooms. Thoughtful maximalism can exist even in minimalist spaces. Provided, we follow a few basic rules. Three design practitioners elaborate.
