Eye Culture

A century after Ernest Hemingway immortalised Pamplona in The Sun Also Rises, the Spanish city continues to draw visitors through its literary legacy, historic cafes and iconic San Fermín festival

From picture-perfect pujas to prosperity parades, Diwali has become a festival of faith, flexing and financial overreach

These makers are translating, not copying, the western varieties. One Chennai cheesemaker coats cheddar with milagai podi, a South Indian chilli-and-lentil powder

This year's southwest monsoon has ended with a 13% deficit over the long-period average, and India is still bracing for the full impact of a 'super', or 'Godzilla', El Niño

Mumbai generates more data daily than New Delhi. Yet have you ever heard Sensex closing being revised?

The new direct pathway could help selection committees in several countries, including India, to re-evaluate how they choose the national entries for the Oscar awards

Academia has seen countless instances of researchers hurling accusations of intellectual theft. But this is a new plot twist

Biscuits need terroir, detergent needs botanical cred and water needs provenance. Even the mundane must now arrive with an origin story

Gaganyaan is teaching India to send people into space; the space station will teach it to keep them there. A lunar base could be the next logical step

Back when India moved slowly, every window seat came with a view, and every rail journey came with excess baggage - food, fears, family drama

For generations, millions of immigrants crossed oceans in search of freedom, security or simply a better life

As several scholars have written, a symbol has language. But a symbol also has multivale¬n¬ce. It can mean many things at the same time

Gliding through "interstellar space" at about 61,000 km an hour, Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the boundary where the Sun's solar wind gives way to the interstellar medium, in 2012

A tiny seal from Mohenjo-daro has reignited a century-old debate over whether the Indus civilisation shares a direct cultural link with later Hindu traditions

As AI enters astrology apps and predictions, technology is becoming a new interface for humanity's oldest questions about uncertainty and the future

A witty open letter from Pluto questions its 'dwarf planet' tag, reviving debate on planetary definitions and whether science-or simplicity-drove its demotion

Censorship remains a favourite tool of totalitarian leaders, and circumvention is the reflex it keeps on producing in filmmakers

For all its benign demeanour, which has inspired many a song, the Moon isn't exactly welcoming. Approaching it demands precision. Landing on it even more so

In a three-hour format, opportunity can be engineered. For Associate cricket, that opportunity is no longer symbolic. It is there in scorecards, in contracts signed, and in sustained belief

Even physiology resists the fantasy: Alpha males carry stress levels comparable to those at the bottom of the hierarchy. Power is labour