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    Bakra Eid: How sacrifice of animals is not cruelty, but an act of piety in Islam

    Nazima Parveen
    7 Jun 2025 6:30 AM IST

    Too often reduced to animal slaughter, Eid-ul-Adha, being celebrated on June 7, is a festival steeped in Islamic ideals of gift-less giving, dignity for animals, and redistribution of wealth

    Bakra Eid
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    Vijay Mallya
    Features

    How Vijay Mallya brought down Kingfisher Airlines by trying to kill Air Deccan

    6 Jun 2025 6:43 PM IST
    Kamal Haasan and Silambarasan in a still from Mani Ratnams Thug Life.
    Film Reviews

    'Thug Life' review: OG gangster's comeback fails to create an impact

    5 Jun 2025 4:20 PM IST
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    Features

    India’s bees and butterflies are vanishing, and taking our future with them

    5 Jun 2025 6:55 AM IST
    Em dash: A stylish punctuation mark you’re wrong to accuse of being AI-generated

    Em dash: A stylish punctuation mark you’re wrong to accuse of being AI-generated

    1 Jun 2025 1:02 PM IST
    Benyamin

    The Second Book of Prophets review: Benyamin reimagines Jesus as an angry young man

    1 Jun 2025 6:39 AM IST
    Radhika Apte

    Sister Midnight review: Radhika Apte’s phenomenal descent into marital madness

    31 May 2025 12:37 PM IST
    Tai Chi China Martial art

    Tai Chi gains ground in Chennai as a path to health and calm

    31 May 2025 10:53 AM IST
    Tamil Nadu summe festival-flower show

    Photo feature: Tamil Nadu flower shows face criticism for ignoring local flora

    31 May 2025 6:27 AM IST
    Sebastião Salgado

    How Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado made human suffering visible

    30 May 2025 7:26 AM IST
    Queens Head

    Why Queen’s Head in Taiwan’s Yehliu Geopark, a tourist hotspot, is slowly eroding

    29 May 2025 1:47 PM IST
    The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and his Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey, Hachette India, pp. 320, Rs 499

    The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and his Kingdom of Clay review: A tennis legend’s secrets

    28 May 2025 1:15 PM IST
    Banu Mushtaq on kannada language controversy

    How Banu Mushtaq has broken through Kannada short story canon with International Booker

    28 May 2025 9:00 AM IST
    Rapper Vedan

    How Vedan, the rapper, has become a voice of defiance for Kerala’s youth

    25 May 2025 7:45 AM IST
    Bollywood-Khans

    How Bollywood hides its representation crisis, bigotry behind superstardom of Khans

    Debiparna Chakraborty
    24 May 2025 5:29 PM IST

    Hindi cinema uses the superstardom of Shah Rukh, Salman, Aamir and Saif Ali Khan as a smokescreen for systemic erasure; Muslim stories are flattened,...

    menus inspired by movies

    How Bangalore chefs, restaurants are serving up menus inspired by movies, shows

    24 May 2025 10:51 AM IST
    Cannes 2025

    Homebound review: A heartbreaking tribute to migrants’ plight during lockdown

    23 May 2025 4:08 PM IST
    Banu Mushtaq

    What Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker win means for Indian literature in translation

    21 May 2025 6:36 PM IST
    Sentimental Value

    Cannes 2025: 10 standout films from around the world you need to know about

    21 May 2025 11:53 AM IST
    Aranyer Din Ratri-Cannes

    India at Cannes: Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri plays to a full house

    20 May 2025 3:35 PM IST
    Nuclear Now

    Oliver Stone’s Nuclear Now: How nuke energy could help cool a warming planet

    20 May 2025 1:25 PM IST
    Satyajit Ray

    Why Satyajit Ray’s films continue to touch our lives even today

    18 May 2025 1:36 PM IST
    Ranthambore

    Live bait to tigress queen Machli comes back to bite Ranthambore Tiger Reserve

    17 May 2025 6:43 AM IST
    Banu Mushtaq

    Banu Mushtaq interview: ‘Muslim women are capable of fighting their own battles’

    16 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kannada literature

    P. Lankesh, Poornachandra Tejaswi: Two greats of Kannada literature, found in translation

    14 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Bengaluru waterscapes

    How Bengaluru lost touch with its waters and why getting it back is urgent

    13 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Recreated Kannagi idol during the Chitra Pournami festival, which falls on May 12

    Chitra Pournami: Tamil epic heroine Kannagi’s idol portion missing for 50 years

    12 May 2025 10:40 AM IST
    Garm Hava

    10 films that look at India-Pakistan relations with a different lens

    9 May 2025 10:32 AM IST
    Chithirai festival at the Meenakshi temple in Madurai

    How history, mythology, culture converge at Madurai's Chithirai festival

    8 May 2025 3:52 PM IST
    The Piprahwa Gems

    Piprahwa Gems: Sotheby’s halts sale of Buddha’s jewels; can India get them back?

    8 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
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