A fine list of teas and tisanes—served with very useful brewing tips.
Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.
Throwback soundtrack: Is classical music staging a comeback?
We pick the best new book releases for your reading pleasure.
In this excerpt, Sudha Tumbe recounts learning Korean in ‘Mind Your Language’-style in Seoul.
Discover wonderful tales of caste and queerness, myth and memory, love and alienation.
Travel through the pages with this exciting list of photo books.
A great list reading that cuts through the fog of war and propaganda.
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan offers a culture vulture guide to Vienna.
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan has all you need to know to wander the piazzas like a Roman.
Treks, pottery, Tibetan thalis, cricket and even indie cinema. Kangra has it all.
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan offers an insider guide to Berlin—the first in a fab new ‘un-tourist’ series.
The splainer team curates the best new global beats of the past month.
Our drive time playlist that combines eclectic music and intriguing podcasts.
Definitive list of pool party bops—from iconic to K-pop.
From Haydn to jazz riffs, music kids will love.
Tried and tested base makeup recommendations from the splainer fam.
A good-looking, hardy handbag (or wallet) is hard to come by. Happily we have a tried and tested list for you.
An excellent list of premixes, masalas, and pastes that will make you a culinary queen/king.
The Souk team’s holiday gift guide offers a twist on the usual, ho-hum holiday fare.
ICE raids in LA spark protests, as Trump sends in the National Guard to clamp down.
Venice’s top architecture event opens with a rare, hopeful focus on climate resilience.
Born of first-world problems, Indian IT made money—now AI does the grunt work. What’s next?
Beijing’s victory should be a strategic wakeup call. Our greatest nemesis is not Islamabad.