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

    Pramila Krishnan
    31 May 2025 6:27 AM IST

    Once meant to spotlight regional plant varieties, Tamil Nadu’s summer flower shows are now dominated by mass-produced cut flowers and tourist-driven displays, sidelining local botanical heritage

    Tamil Nadu summe festival-flower show
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    Sebastião Salgado
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    How Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado made human suffering visible

    30 May 2025 7:26 AM IST
    Queens Head
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    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
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    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

    24 May 2025 5:29 PM IST
    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

    Ajay Suri
    17 May 2025 6:43 AM IST

    Extending life span of Machli, its biggest tourist draw, through live bait 20 years ago, has backfired fatally at India’s renowned tiger reserve, with...

    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
    G S Amur: The writer-critic who opened Kannada literature to the world

    G S Amur: The writer-critic who opened Kannada literature to the world

    8 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Last of Us

    How The Last of Us turns an apocalypse into a meditation on care, moral survival

    6 May 2025 8:30 AM IST
    Why Chennai

    Will Chennai’s butter biscuits melt away under pressure of packaged snacks?

    4 May 2025 9:10 AM IST
    Indian teenagers

    How virtual world is driving India’s teenagers to anxiety and depression

    4 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Palestine

    Delhi exhibition showcases works of global artists in solidarity with Palestine

    3 May 2025 7:21 PM IST
    mayonnaise

    Why Tamil Nadu’s ban on raw-egg mayonnaise over health risks misses the point

    1 May 2025 4:40 PM IST
    Chef Shun Sato-Japanese-food

    Chef Shun Sato interview: What India can learn from Japan’s minimalist cuisine

    1 May 2025 2:20 PM IST
    Banu Mushtaq, author of Hearth Lamp

    How Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq shines a light on Muslim women’s struggles

    30 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
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