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Photos | The art of being Gandhi ‘Sea-Bath (Before Breaking The Salt Law)’ (1998), watercolour on paper by Atul Dodiya.Premium 2 min read Share Via Read Full Story For a man who scarcely covered himself for most of his life, preferred walking barefoot, sported a bald pate and an emaciated frame, M.K. Gandhi cut a wildly photogenic figure. Not only was he the most photographed Indian of his time, he also inspired generations of artists to paint, sketch and sculpt him and create works that dr...

Why the cyclotron in Chandigarh has a special place in science history The insides of the cyclotron (Image courtesy Jahnavi Phalkey)Premium 9 min read Share Via Read Full Story In 1967, one of the world’s oldest particle accelerators, built in the 1930s, was sent from the University of Rochester, USA to be housed at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Invented by American nuclear scientist Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, this particular type of particle...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize longlist picks 12 power-packed titles The covers of the books in the longlist of the prize.Premium 1 min read Share Via Read Full Story The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, instituted by the New India Foundation (NIF) in 2018, for the best book-length work of non-fiction about India announced its longlist of 12 titles for the 2020 prize. The announcement was made online on Wednesday by writer and historian Ramachandra Guha, one of the members of t...

Serious Men review: Lying for a better life (from left) Indira Tiwari, Aakshath Das and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Serious Men 4 min read Share Via Read Full Story Who among us hasn’t committed to memory a piece of trivia, a line of verse? This may not be done purposefully, but the unveiling is almost always to our advantage, to impress an object of affection or someone whose approval we seek. Now imagine if a similar sort of acquisition—a few lines, a few numbers—could have life-altering con...

JCB Prize 2020 shortlist | Deepa Anappara on storytelling and what it counts for Premium 6 min read Deepa Anappara In this first of a series of essays, written exclusively for Lounge, by writers shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020, Deepa Anappara looks back on writing her debut novel, Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Share Via 1. One rainy morning you leave for your sister’s hospital to pick up a prescription for morphine. She is six years younger than you and she has stage four...

Opinion | A brief history of getting high in India Dev Anands character tries to moralize a group of stoner hippies, including his sister played by Zeenat Aman, in Haré Rama Haré Krishna. Share Via Read Full Story Before her interrogation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) last week, Deepika Padukone’s primary link with drugs in the public’s mind was a brief appearance in the decade-old film Dum Maaro Dum. Padukone danced to a number which sampled and mangled a justly famous tune comp...

The happy hug of a clinic clown Clinic clowns Julia Wille (standing, second from left).Premium 6 min read Priti Salian As dementia rates rise worldwide, clinic clowns are helping to induce positive emotions and create a sense of wellbeing among patients Share Via Read Full Story In Auroville, a few years ago, a bed-ridden woman was watching Fif Fernandes attentively as she sang and pranced around, playing on her ukulele. When the woman, who was living with dementia, finally smiled, Fernandes as...

Mihir Dalal’s book on Flipkart wins Gaja Capital’s book prize The book was chosen from a short list of six books.Premium 1 min read Share Via M Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story. He was chosen from a shortlist of six books, including works by Sunil Munjal, Rahul Chandra, Tamal Bandyopadhyay, T.N. Hari, M.S. Subramanian and Katherine Eban. TRENDING STORIESSee All 1 min read Premium 2 min read Premium 1 min read Premium 1 min read . 08:35 AM IST Established by the equity firm...

Opinion | Amazon’s superhero satire ‘The Boys’ gets even wilder Superheroes find their reputations undone in a matter of retweets in ‘The Boys’.Premium Share Via Read Full Story Homelander is a superhero. He takes down terrorists, poses for movie posters and smiles from hoardings, with a stars-and-stripes cape and a distinctively Superman pose. Played by Antony Starr, he looks like Greg Kinnear if he’d been bred onsteroids, and in the second season of The Boys—a resoundingly ente...

Activists say the BJP is using laws framed during the Congress era to crack down on civil society