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The cult of children

At the UN Climate Action Summit, Greta Thunberg admonished the world's leaders for playing fast and loose with the futures of the young

The latest in the Apple Watch series is competent, addictive and demanding

To be fair, the Apple Watch Series 5 still does a lot to ease your every day, unless, of course, you forget to charge it every night

The new Museum of Modern Art ditches chronology for a mixture of ideas

This sounds fairly simple to achieve: Don't put galleries in a one-directional loop, yet it eluded architect Yoshio Taniguchi in the 2004 extension of MoMA

How Google Arts & Culture is doing its bit for Indian crafts traditions

A new online repository reminds us about the rich crafts traditions in our backyard, thereby helping artisans too, says Ritwik Sharma

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In the U-18 Open, R Praggnanandhaa (7.5/9) has a narrow lead over Shant Sargsyan (7), with Aryan Gholami, Aditya Mittal and Mitrabha Guha (all 6.5) in striking distance

Giles Tillotson on Delhi's history offers an unusually readable book

How is Tillotson's book any different from the others?

Rosalía: From flamenco to superstardom

Before she started topping YouTube and Spotify ranks, Rosalía spent more than a decade training in flamenco, one of the world's oldest, most heartfelt and most complex musical art forms

Meet Waswo X Waswo and R Vijay, both perfectly ironic orientalist artists

American-Indian artist Waswo X Waswo is playful, ironic and profound by turns. Kishore Singh on his partnership with skilled miniaturist R Vijay

Movie review: The Sky is Pink has just a hint of too much purple

The Sky is Pink tries to tell a tragic story with humour and good cheer but ends up overwrought and unconvincing, says Ritwik Sharma

NowTrending: Did a 14-year-old really just write a book on Kashmir?

In the Times of Article 370, by self-publishing company Notion Press, claims to be about life in the Indian Army

How auto companies are wooing reluctant buyers amid slowdown gloom

Stuck in the slow lane, promotions, advertising and customer engagement are of critical importance say the companies.

Loyalty programmes back in focus and firms scramble to retain customers

From picking cues from a consumer's personality to his kids' diaper sizes, retail and airline brands are using data to design newer schemes and tweaking them to satisfy newer demands

Metro Cash & Carry is wooing kirana store owners with doorstep delivery

Metro Cash and Carry has taken up a digitisation drive in two key markets-Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh-where it has six and four stores respectively

Tata Steel scripts a new consumer story with its digital marketplace

With its branded digital marketplace, the company is reshaping the contract between its products and the end customer

How Tata Coffee is tapping into India's growing love for the beverage

As coffee drinking picks up in the country, Tata Coffee plans a fresh offensive with Monsooned Malabar

Flipkart plays big on fitness, sportswear as demand grows in tier-2 cities

The e-commerce platform is banking on an increasing sports and fitness clientele to make itself relevant across new towns

Statspeak: Companies need to understand the evolving consumer better

Identifying your niche and moving away from mass targeting will be the keys, says the Deloitte India report

Environmental sustainability is no longer just a buzzword: Gurmeet Singh

It makes a business more profitable, Singh tells Shubhomoy Sikdar

Robots could be trained to recognise human emotions, finds study

The study was conducted by researchers form Warwick Business School, University of Plymouth, Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and the Bristol Robotics Lab

Brands, corporates should look at rural India's aspirations as opportunity

Brands must not forget the context when devising strategy