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The show must go on: Performance artists struggle as gigs go online

Due to the lockdown, artists are turning to online shows but the concept of online concerts are still at a nascent stage making survival difficult for many

Sports books to keep you going while you wait for the real action to resume

If you're done with endless TV re-runs of classic matches, Dhruv Munjal offers a choice of entertaining sports books to keep you going.

Recording our time in history

Writing requires experience, and the material to credibly insert into your text, and experience can only come with age

CHESS #1401

Magnus Carlsen is fronting an online Grand Prix of four events, followed by a super final sometime in August.

The safe, secure, selfish urban class' response to migrant distress

You don't need to be on the highway to see a mile-long stream of people walking, abandoned by the cities they help build and run, every day, to see the distress

The hidden history of Indian nannies who sailed to England during the Raj

The hidden history of hundreds of Indian nannies who sailed to England for work from the 18th to early 20th centuries is finally being pieced together, finds Ranjita Ganesan

A Netflix series puts the media on trial. But real life is more dramatic

Produced by actor George Clooney, lawyer and author Jeffrey Toobin, and others, this documentary highlights how in some cases gavel-to-gavel coverage wasn't just a throwaway term.

Who are the people who manage to get us laughing in these grim times?

Who's making us laugh in these grim times? Veer Arjun Singh finds out

A decade of a project to document India's butterflies gets more ambitious

Butterflies of India (IFoundButterflies.org), a website launched by Kunte in 2010, crowd-sources images to map and document butterflies in India.

A prescient artist

Surveying a century of art practice in India, one is struck anew by how artists have reacted to situations and crises in their lifetimes.

Changes in consumer behaviour to drive brands to rethink positioning norms

The pandemic is changing consumer behaviour say experts, forcing marketers to rethink the differentiators between mass and premium brands

Brands, sponsors play the game of uncertainty as Covid-19 halts all sports

Can teams, athletes and broadcasters come together to keep the show going as the pandemic grinds all sports to an indefinite halt?

Social media giants step up the hunt for fake ads to stem misinformation

Google, Facebook, Twitter get tough with imposters as they look to keep brands and users loyal to their platforms

Small brands using familiarity to redefine engagement with customers

A clutch of home grown food and beverage brands are using their familiarity with local communities to redefine the terms of engagement with customers

Big names in Indian philanthropy team up to respond to climate change

Some of the biggest names in Indian philanthropy have teamed up with researchers and more to craft an India-specific response to the climate crisis. Nikita Puri reports on the development

Take predictions of a new, improved post-corona world with a pinch of salt

There appears to be a sudden outbreak of good behaviour

CHESS #1400

Magnus Carlsen won the Magnus Invitational by taking a ding-dong final against Hikaru Nakamura where both played brilliant chess.

Then and now in Chile

In plots that are otherwise skilfully immersive, Larrain always leaves in some extraneous, even contrived, sequences that make you come up for air

Serum Institute hopes to roll out a Covid-19 vaccine. Is this realistic?

The Pune-based company plans to start trials on people to assess whether the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis can also protect against the Covid-19 virus.

Netflix series Hollywood is a simplistic take on a tangled industry

The first few episodes breezily capture the dreams of young aspirants and the sordid measures needed to survive in the pernicious environs of tinsel town