A Chola ambassador sails to China, bearing riches and ideas.
Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.
A good guide to Almaty aka the “other Switzerland”
A great list of little books, across genres to conquer in a single sitting or two.
Forgotten gems from 80s and 90s Hollywood movie soundtracks.
We pick the best new book releases for your reading pleasure.
Discover wonderful tales of caste and queerness, myth and memory, love and alienation.
Travel through the pages with this exciting list of photo books.
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.
Classical music seems to be having a moment from ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ to ‘Four Seasons’.
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.
A fine list of teas and tisanes—served with very useful brewing tips.
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.
Seven B-52 stealth bombers pounded three nuclear plants in Iran. We look at possible outcomes.
Netanyahu targets Iran next—claims Tehran was close to nine nukes.
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.