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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

Plagues, disasters and heroes

Why turn to a hero, not a god? Joseph Campbell has said a hero scores over a god when it comes to resolving the problems of the here and now because "a hero's sphere of action is not the transcendent"

Maoism: A Global History is a milestone in describing a harrowing legacy

Julia Lovell's book on Maoism is concerned with understanding the phenomenon of Maoism when it swept the globe, in some places politically and in most places ideologically and intellectually.

A unique fundraiser offers quality photographic prints for a steal

The fundraising initiative was created in solidarity with a nation that has fired the imagination of the global photography community for decades

Ale Madrid: Why the Spanish capital should be on every beer lover's list

Madrid, until a few years ago, wasn't really known for its beer.

Let it flow: If fresh beer is what you crave, how about brewing it at home?

In case you don't see yourself in long, snaking queues outside overwhelmed wine shops for craft beer that you might not find there, the only option is to brew your own. And no, it's not called hooch.

Wine online

It's high time that all state excise authorities considered permitting home delivery of (at least) wines.

Making an unloved car cool again with death-defying driving skill

Stunt driver Ken Block's rabid following might take a cue from his next automotive muse, Ford's Fox-Body Mustang, writes Hannah Elliot

Fitness brands struggle to find right pitch to keep their flock together

As the business of fitness crumbles over a prolonged lockdown, a once thriving set of brands is struggling to stay in the race