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Opinion | Fleet Foxes are comfort food for your ears Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold performing at the 2018 Mad Cool Festival in Madrid.Premium Share Via Read Full Story Like comfort food, welcome and uplifting in times of stress, you can feel a sense of well-being gently wafting over you as you listen to Fleet Foxes’ new album, Shore. It’s not that the band, led by frontman and lead singer Robin Pecknold, always sings happy and upbeat songs—Fleet Foxes’ songs almost always have an aura ...

Global leaders pledge to protect nature at the UN Biodiversity Summit The worlds biodiversity is in a more precarious state than ever before. (Photo: Getty Images)Premium 2 min read Share Via Read Full Story “Humanity is waging a war against nature," said the UN Secretary General António Guterres during his opening remarks at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit on 30 September. That is the unalloyed truth, as recent reports on the state of the planet’s biodiversity have borne out. We ha...

Eva Repková, who heads the commission for women’s chess at the International Chess Federation, says women are ‘naturally’ disadvantaged in chess

How green are digital fashion shows? Moschino pushed the envelope at the Milan Fashion Week, held September-end, by sending puppets wearing its spring/summer collection down a miniature runway. 6 min read Share Via Read Full Story Aarushi Kilawat isn’t sure what she’s feeling. Three weeks from now, she will be presenting her women’s collection, for the first time, at one of India’s biggest fashion events, the Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW). “Let’s just say I have butterflies in my stomac...

Why Twinkle Khanna wants you to try tendli Twinkle Khanna.Premium Share Via One would think that movie stars would be above dabba envy but my partner once returned from a shoot with a grievous complaint. I was sending him chauli and tendli, while his co-star, a long-standing bachelor, was unpacking lunch boxes filled with prawns and lobster," writes Twinkle Khanna in the foreword of her new book, What’s In Your Dabba?. As a reader, it’s interesting to know that celebrities are just like e...

Understanding MK Gandhi’s ‘love’ for his ‘spiritual wife’ Gandhi with Manu Gandhi (left) and Abha Gandhi. 7 min read Share Via Read Full Story If you run a cursory internet search for M.K. Gandhi’s relationship with Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, you are likely to come across articles with headlines referring to a love affair between them, even salaciously pointing to the Mahatma’s lust for her. The reality was far more complicated, as a newly published collection of letters between the...

Serious Men: Sudhir Mishra and Nawazuddin Siddiqui on their new film Sudhir Mishra and (left) Nawazuddin Siddiqui on the sets of Serious Men. Courtesy: NetflixPremium 5 min read Share Via Read Full Story Between Sudhir Mishra and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, theres been plenty of memorable Mumbai-centric cinema made. The director has given us the searing Dharavi and the underrated gangster film Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahi. And Siddiqui has played Mumbaikars of all stripes, from politician Bal Thackeray an...

Why women lose at chess GM Koneru Humpy and Chinese GM Ju Wenjun at the 2019 Skolkovo Women Grand Prix. Photo: David Llada/Fide 12 min read Share Via Read Full Story When she first started participating in chess tournaments at age 7, Koneru Humpy would play in both draws—of boys and girls. “They considered girls as ‘underdog players’, so I was allowed to participate," she recalls. “But mostly girls themselves didn’t dare do that because the competition (in the boys’ draw) was very...