Browsing category
Workspaces remain largely patriarchal, leading women professionals to turn to dedicated networking groups to learn and grow /news/big-story/women-groups-networking-work-office-111714324086252.html 111714324086252 story Veni Jain, 30, had an idea she believed in. Before she could act on it, however, she got married and moved to Kolkata from Delhi, where she knew no one except her husband and his […]
As pet parents seek the best for their dogs, they are buying ‘human-grade’ food that looks like a meal they would eat /news/big-story/pet-food-good-enough-for-humans-to-take-a-bite-of-111714046366689.html 111714046366689 story Unlike other two-year-olds, Timtim loves broccoli and peas. He starts the day with two boiled eggs, each stuffed with a broccoli floret. His dinner includes a portion of boiled peas. […]
The athlete as backwards prophet is the fashion. What would you tell your younger self, we ask? Write a letter to him, please. And so greying, considered heroes give wise advice to the reckless, obsessive, dynamic creatures they once were. He, the Olympic champion, isn’t the looking-back kind. But we want to examine the bones […]
We examine the impact of Impressionism on Indian artists, who fused it with indigenous ideas and modernism to create a unique style /news/opinion/impressionism-indian-art-heeramandi-kinara-capital-abhinav-bindra-111714185939033.html 111714185939033 story Artists are often considered isolated iconoclasts but contrary to popular belief, they’re quite a sociable bunch. Artists V. Viswanathan and S.G. Vasudev, as well as the late sculptor S. Nandagopal, […]
2024 marks the 150th year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris. In India, rather than imitate, artists combined elements of Impressionism with their immediate reality to create a unique visual language /news/big-story/150-years-of-impressionism-how-indian-artists-reinterpreted-the-art-movement-111714032431503.html 111714032431503 story It was in 1991-92, while studying at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, that Atul Dodiya first beheld Impressionist masterpieces by artists […]
A champion of compassionate capitalism, the founder and CEO of Kinara Capital, an NBFC, talks about why small businesses need more attention /news/big-story/hardika-shah-kinara-capital-profile-nbfc-micro-lending-india-111714108834045.html 111714108834045 story An understanding of entrepreneurs overcoming the odds in gaining access to capital is part of Hardika Shah’s inheritance. As a child growing up in 1980s Mumbai, the CEO and founder […]
IPL’s impact sub rule is high on entertainment, but has destroyed the trade-offs that make cricket truly engrossing /news/talking-point/indian-premier-league-ipl-2024-impact-subs-cricket-t20-111714052296487.html 111714052296487 story T20 cricket was already a slam-bam affair compared to longer forms of the game. Relatively small grounds and mostly easy wickets made it even more so in the Indian Premier League (IPL). And yet, […]
Sudhir Kakar’s boldness in forging a path for Indian thought in his field stands out /news/talking-point/sudhir-kakar-works-death-namita-gokhale-ramin-jahanbegloo-111714031212094.html 111714031212094 story Many years ago in a café in Paris, psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar and novelist Namita Gokhale spent hours talking about mysticism and the Bhutanese-Tibetan monk Drukpa Kunley. Sometime later, some of these thoughts made their way into Kakar’s […]
After his win at the Candidates, 17-year-old Indian Grandmaster Gukesh D. is now just one win away from becoming the world’s youngest chess champion /news/talking-point/chess-candidates-tournament-gukesh-111713896642654.html 111713896642654 story When Dommaraju Gukesh lost to Alireza Firouzja in the seventh round of the FIDE Candidates 2024 chess less than two weeks ago, he started to believe that he […]
Two years after one of the most brilliant wins in Indian sporting history, the Thomas Cup holders get ready to defend their title /news/big-story/badminton-thomas-cup-2024-prannoy-satwik-chirag-111713895709335.html 111713895709335 story Of all the incredible moments that India scripted at the 2022 Thomas Cup, the one that became definitive of the odds-defying, history-making team, was of the players bouncing up […]