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    How Persian tandoors or clay ovens connect India and Armenia across civilisations

    Veidehi Gite
    8 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST

    From the 7,000-year-old Persian tanūr to India’s tandoor, Armenia’s tonir, and Japan’s kamado, the clay oven has baked bread, roasted meat, bound communities, and carried food traditions across time...

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    Protein bars in India hide sugars, audit finds shocking results
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    Protein bars in India hide sugars, audit finds shocking results

    6 Sept 2025 8:31 AM IST
    Giorgio Armani
    Features

    How Giorgio Armani reengineered the suit, and stitched Hollywood into his empire

    5 Sept 2025 6:42 PM IST
    Andhra-pickles-US-tariffs
    Features

    How high US tariffs have hit pickles’ trail from Andhra to the Telugu diaspora

    4 Sept 2025 9:20 AM IST
    sari-couture-fashion-spiritual

    How sari is being reimagined as ‘sacred couture’ with spiritual symbols

    30 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Cabernet Sauvignon-Indian-red-wine

    Cabernet Sauvignon is changing the Indian red wine story, putting it on global map

    30 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    English dictionary

    New words in Cambridge Dictionary: How the Internet is changing English language

    26 Aug 2025 8:30 AM IST
    Stray dog

    International Dog Day: Want a furry friend? Here are some breeds suited for India

    26 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Tamil-wedding-ritual-Supanki Kalanadan

    How a diaspora woman in Canada revives ancient Tamil marriage rituals and beliefs

    24 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Zakir Khan-Madison Square

    How Zakir Khan took Hindi stand-up comedy from Indore to Madison Square Garden

    23 Aug 2025 4:42 PM IST
    hijras-castration

    How castration among hijras forces India to rethink mental health, gender identity

    22 Aug 2025 5:10 PM IST
    Madras Day Special: How an American made Chennai ‘cool’ in the 1800s

    Madras Day Special: How an American made Chennai ‘cool’ in the 1800s

    22 Aug 2025 1:51 PM IST
    Raj Bahadur-Rajinikanth

    Rajinikanth’s friend Raj Bahadur: The bus driver who gave Tamil cinema its superstar

    22 Aug 2025 9:35 AM IST
    Caste-Suraj-Milind-Yengde

    Caste: A Global Story review: How the hierarchy-driven social order spans the globe

    20 Aug 2025 6:24 AM IST
    Odisha-migration-labour-trafficking

    Chained by debt: How migrant workers’ distress shadows Nuakhai in Odisha

    Debi Mohanty
    19 Aug 2025 9:36 AM IST

    In western Odisha, Nuakhai, the harvest festival that falls on August 28, brings prayers for bounty, but contractors engaged in labour trafficking...

    Aatish Taseer

    Aatish Taseer interview: ‘India is a difficult country to belong to, or even care about’

    17 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Varun Grover

    How Varun Grover perfected the art of tragicomic subversion to speak truth to power

    16 Aug 2025 12:20 PM IST
    US-tariffs-Donald Trump

    Book excerpt: US tariffs and why Donald Trump’s economics don’t add up

    15 Aug 2025 1:20 PM IST
    Evolution of Indian rupee since 1947

    From King’s face to Mahatma Gandhi: Tracing 78 years of the rupee

    15 Aug 2025 11:58 AM IST
    Hindi-cinema-patriotic songs-freedom-Indpendence-Day

    How Hindi cinema’s patriotic songs have stirred India’s heart since Independence

    14 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Sockalingum Meenatchee Ammen-Mauritius

    How Mauritius keeps Indian imprints alive in its culture, heritage and cuisine

    13 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Dark Hours of the Night

    Salma interview: ‘Tamil Nadu a mature state, BJP will never win it’ | Culture Vibes

    10 Aug 2025 12:00 PM IST
    Conserving Deen Dayal’s works opens a window to India’s past

    Conserving Deen Dayal’s works opens a window to India’s past

    10 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kashmir books

    How banning 25 books in Kashmir is far more dangerous than we could imagine

    9 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Pamela Anderson

    How Pamela Anderson’s makeup-free look is challenging beauty standards

    7 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Greater Flamingo, Varthur Lake, Flamingo in Bangalore

    Rare flamingo spotting in Bengaluru has birders thrilled

    4 Aug 2025 5:02 PM IST
    Ranveer Brar

    Ranveer Brar interview: ‘None of my restaurants worked the way I wanted’

    3 Aug 2025 1:42 PM IST
    Mehak Jamal on love and longing in Kashmir

    Love in a land of silence: Mehak Jamal’s Kashmir through ‘loal’

    3 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Adultery-social-complicit-voyeurs-Coldplay-concert-Kiss Cam

    Adultery in the times of social media: How we’re all complicit voyeurs

    1 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    ISRO-NASA-NISAR

    How ISRO-NASA’s NISAR satellite will revolutionise earth monitoring from space

    31 July 2025 1:25 PM IST
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