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    Noor Inayat Khan: Tipu Sultan’s descendant who became Britain’s spy against Hitler

    Chandrappa M
    29 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST

    If Tipu Sultan fought against the British, Noor Inayat Khan worked for Britain as a spy in Nazi-occupied France; the lineage returns to focus as France honours Noor with a commemorative postage stamp

    Noor Inayat Khan
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    Films

    Dolly Ahluwalia on ‘Calorie,’ Air India 182 crash, and aftermath of Operation Blue Star

    27 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    How ITC Maurya’s Avartana reinvents South Indian cuisine with flair
    Features

    How ITC Maurya’s Avartana reinvents South Indian cuisine with flair

    23 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    New Delhi Indian Restaurant-Philadelphia
    Features

    New Delhi Indian Restaurant: A Philadelphia fixture for generations of students

    22 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Aranya Sahay-Humans-in-the Loop-AI

    How Aranya Sahay’s Humans in the Loop spotlights rural, invisible workers training AI

    20 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Khan-el-Khalili-Egypt-souk-in-Cairo-Indian-spices

    How a Cairo souk became India and Egypt’s oldest link on the ancient spice route

    19 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    MK Shankar-The Convert

    M K Shankar on how his novel, The Convert, is an enquiry into faith and belonging

    18 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie

    The Eleventh Hour review: Rushdie returns to peak form with tales of decline and death

    16 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Jawaharlal Nehru

    How Jawaharlal Nehru didn’t require Prime Minister’s chair to leave his mark on history

    14 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kanu Behl interview: ‘Agra is a film about desire and sexual repression’

    Kanu Behl interview: ‘Agra is a film about desire and sexual repression’

    13 Nov 2025 7:20 PM IST
    Serendipity art festival

    Serendipity Arts Festival: How Sunil Munjal built South Asia’s leading cultural platform

    13 Nov 2025 5:30 PM IST
    Zakir Khan

    Papa Yaar: How Zakir Khan turns the father-son relationship into a two-hour laugh riot

    13 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Sabzi-Yasmin Khan

    What Bloomsbury-Cornwall deli row over sabzi says about ownership of common food words

    12 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    skirt-fashion-style

    Why skirt, a wardrobe staple for women, continues to rule the style spectrum

    10 Nov 2025 11:10 AM IST
    Kalyan Varma-Wild Tamil Nadu

    How Kalyan Varma’s Wild Tamil Nadu uses Sangam literature to map state’s wildlife

    Sravasti Datta
    6 Nov 2025 10:30 AM IST

    Emmy-nominated wildlife filmmaker Kalyan Varma unpacks how ancient Tamil poetry guided the making of his documentary Wild Tamil Nadu, an ode to...

    Bengaluru museums

    10 must-visit galleries and museums that offer a window into Bengaluru’s art scene

    5 Nov 2025 4:50 PM IST
    Vir Das-memoir-The Outsider-book-review

    The Outsider review: Vir Das’s memoir is a stand-up comic’s honest ode to misfit life

    4 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Priyambada Jayakumar with Kamal Haasan at the launch of her book

    How Ramana Maharshi’s philosophy kept the Father of Green Revolution grounded

    3 Nov 2025 3:58 PM IST
    Shah Rukh Khan at 60

    60 years of Shah Rukh Khan and the 1990s boys who grew up on his films

    2 Nov 2025 2:38 PM IST
    Arthur Conan Doyle-Sherlock-Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle and the many lives of Sherlock Holmes, world’s most famous detective

    1 Nov 2025 12:55 PM IST
    Chef Rohit Ghai

    Chef Rohit Ghai on Zarqash, his restaurant in Bengaluru: ‘My most personal yet’

    30 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Enrique Iglesias

    Enrique Iglesias essential playlist: 10 songs that still make us sing along

    29 Oct 2025 1:16 PM IST
    Koh-i-noor Golconda Aurangzeb

    How Golconda’s Koh-i-Noor became the most fought-over diamond in human history

    28 Oct 2025 9:45 AM IST
    M.S. Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed India by Priyambada Jayakumar

    How MS Swaminathan’s collaboration with Norman Borlaug engineered the Green Revolution

    27 Oct 2025 2:15 PM IST
    Stéphane Breitwieser-the-art-thief

    How Frenchman Stéphane Breitwieser became world’s most prolific art thief

    25 Oct 2025 12:30 PM IST
    László Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó

    Why Nobel winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Satantango is eerily familiar in today’s India

    24 Oct 2025 9:45 AM IST
    Taj Mahal-The Taj Story

    How Taj Mahal, the Mughal monument of love, has become a bee in BJP’s bonnet

    22 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Louvre Museum heist

    How the Louvre’s heist exposes the cracks in the world’s most secure museum

    21 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Gurez Valley-Jammu-and-Kashmir

    28 offbeat escapes across India perfect for an October-November getaway

    19 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Chef Thomas Zacharias

    How Chef Thomas Zacharias is rewriting India’s food story through The Locavore

    17 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
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