Monday March 31 2025
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A catastrophic earthquake in Myanmar

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Good Reads

An excellent list of deep dives, features, and profiles from around the web.

A list of good reads

The Quiz

Say hello to splainer’s weekly quiz. Nope, it isn’t boring!

A list of puzzling questions

Smart and Curious

Gigil goes legit, Bangalore brews sake, and a Rs 50 crore canine.

A list of curious facts

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Get ready for a cruel Indian summer 

April 2 2025

Aaj ki khabar includes a cruel Indian summer, and a new implant gives thoughts a ‘voice’.

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Marine Le Pen banned from standing for office for five years

April 1 2025

Aaj ki khabar includes Marine Le Pen’s conviction and a new drug for genetic heart disease risk.

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Censorship files: Wtf happened with ‘Empuraan’?

March 31 2025

Aaj ki khabar includes wtf happened with ‘Empuraan’ and Mr Vance goes to Greenland.

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Coming next: Blocking foreign students from US colleges

March 28 2025

Aaj ki khabar includes the great 'Hamasnik' purge and a new UTI antibiotic for women.

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Tamil origins of the Iron Age: Part one

The Big Story

A recent study has uncovered iron artefacts from 5,300 years ago that suggest Tamil origins.

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A list of curious facts

Smart and Curious

Bridget Jones is in fashion, the AI test of a lifetime is here, and Sweden’s locking down its name!

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Census time bomb: Made in South India

The Big Story

In this two-part Big Story, we lay out the looming tryst with our demographic destiny.

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A list of curious facts

Smart and Curious

The Gurgaon village named after Carter, shortest Oscar win, and bold new architecture.

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Saturday March 29 2025

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The real architect of Paragon's success

The real architect of Paragon's success

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Culture

Five plays and three festivals filled with theatre—from mind games to puppetry and clowning.

Drama time: An excellent calendar of plays

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Wanna read beyond ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’? Here’s a list of whoddunits from Japanese authors.

Enter the world of Japanese mysteries!

Watch

Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.

We recommend: The best new movies and TV series

Listen

A pawdcast, a purrcast, and everything you need to care for your furry friend.

We recommend: A cute list of pet podcasts

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Ramzan Mubarak: A delicious list for Iftar

Eat

From Kolkata to Bombay, Lucknow and Dilli—the splainer team’s got you the best iftar destinations in town!

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Laila aur Mahdi ki kahaani

Culture

In this excerpt, author Mehak Jamal tells the unusual Kashmir-meets-Gaza love story.

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Atlas of AI: A reading guide to the thinking machine

Read

An intriguing list that spans non-fiction, fiction that often bordered tech horror—and a graphic novel.

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Kings of condiments: Handy list of masalas & pastes

Buy

An excellent list of premixes, masalas, and pastes that will make you a culinary queen/king.

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Big edition: Universal Truths

March 24 2025

The universe may collapse in a ‘big crunch’. If confirmed, it would upend known laws of physics.

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Big edition: Next Stop, Trumpworld

March 17 2025

Welcome to Trumpworld, where big boys rule, democracy wobbles and small nations get tossed.

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Big edition: Trumpian World Order

March 10 2025

We explain how and why Trump is tearing apart the world—going far beyond tough talk.

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Big edition: Je Suis Volodymyr

March 3 2025

The Trump administration has been itching for a showdown over Ukraine—and more broadly Europe.

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