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Open Network: When you swipe right and get more than just the dates

Unpredictable human interactions are turning online dating into a remarkable social networking exercise

How book business middlemen become reliable doorkeepers to literary realm

The idea of literary agents is still new to authors in India. A few are leading the wave here, compared to a few thousands in the UK

Nothing helps the elderly against the fake news they consume and spread

Elections are heating up the political debate and frenzied forwards are helping the elderly voters build on their biases

The great grooming: It is time for men to step into the limelight

Indian couturiers are creating a new aesthetic for the modern groom. It's time to go on a sartorial treasure hunt

How new brands are reshaping the fitness industry - and our bodies

A Hrithik Roshan Xtreme group session, a 3 am gym routine or a DIY home workout, it's all possible

India's next sports champions are being handpicked from tribal communities

Poverty, societal restrictions, family pressure - many of these athletes have overcome great odds to do what they love

Preparing for the next pandemic - and dealing with the current one

A new strain of virus is airborne. Veer Arjun Singh reports on the debate that follows the inevitable outbreaks

The foundation's dream: Self-sustaining villages to reverse urban migration

Swades has identified 300 'dream villages' - communities they hope will soon become independent and self-sustaining

CHESS #1386

Fabiano Caruana produced a standout performance to take the Tata Steel with a round to spare

French artist Gerard Garouste's fantastical world on show at NGMA-Delhi

Garouste has a propensity, somewhat devilish, of putting faces of known people in his paintings

Is there life for us after Kobe Bryant, superstar athlete and global hero?

For 20 years, Kobe flew over rims and took an entire city with him, thrilling audiences with a dynamism so raw that you could actually feel it from the other side of your telly

There's a long lineup of musical treats in store for Mumbai this February

Festival-goers in the city can look forward to sampling diverse musical traditions in February

A Centre for Contemporary Art opens with two shows at Bikaner House, Delhi

The Centre for Contemporary Art is a maze of rooms, each big enough to accommodate artworks of scale

Wine and food pairings

Apart from its characteristic ripe guava aroma, it is vibrant, with intense lemongrass and fresh ginger notes that highlight the core of citrus and pear flavours

Meet Munna Master, the Muslim bhajan singer just awarded a Padma Shri

Munna has been singing bhajans for 30 years now, a family tradition that began with his father, Gaffur Khan

A unique book discusses Krishna and Vrindavan in contemporary times

Hawley draws a contrast between Krishna in Vrindavan and Krishna in later years, for instance, at the Kurukshetra battlefield advising Arjuna on the ways of the world or even later in Dwaraka

The pilot who called out swift but faulty action by airlines and a minister

The running joke on social media is that the now-famous Indigo's captain might be forced to jump ships, or airlines

Harmonies of Basant

Sadly, there is no messiah of tolerance today who speaks the language of universal love

Sedans, SUVs and sporty saloons: Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW's plan for 2020

If Mercedes-Benz is going to bet big on a smaller sedan, its arch-rival, Volkswagen-owned Audi, believes the way forward is to go even bigger

Despite new launches, Samsung continues to lag behind Xiaomi in India

It has 18.9 per cent share of the market (Q3 2019, IDC), down from 22.6 per cent for the third quarter of 2018 while Xiaomi has 27.1 per cent share