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Saturday March 1 2025
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Lalla Rookh: A colonial fantasy of Mughal romance
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From Dalit sci-fi to space opera and Korean folklore, enjoy this list of wildly speculative scenarios.
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Love is complicated, contentious and contradictory—as these novels, memoirs and analyses reveal.
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An intriguing list that spans non-fiction, fiction that often bordered tech horror—and a graphic novel.
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travel
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan offers an insider guide to Berlin—the first in a fab new ‘un-tourist’ series.
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Cycle around town, hit the museums, and sample the largest meal ever—at Joanna’s Copenhagen.
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A list of themed walking tours that will make you want to wear your shoes and step out.
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Shirin Mehrotra offers an excellent guide to eating your way through Istanbul.
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watch
Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.
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Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.
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Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.
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Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.
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listen
From culinary histories to celebs on their ghar ka khana, here’s our list of fave food podcasts.
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Classical is Classical, and Jazz is Jazz. And when the twain meet, they make sweet, sweet music.
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An excellent playlist that celebrates being unhitched—just in time for the V-Day madness.
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buy
A good-looking, hardy handbag (or wallet) is hard to come by. Happily we have a tried and tested list for you.
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An excellent list of premixes, masalas, and pastes that will make you a culinary queen/king.
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The Souk team’s holiday gift guide offers a twist on the usual, ho-hum holiday fare.
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Here’s a very useful list of the best places to buy fab sourdough bread in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
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The Trump administration has been itching for a showdown over Ukraine—and more broadly Europe.
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The outcome spells the end of a post-World War order built by the US and European allies.
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The stampede that claimed 18 lives was caused by a chronic Indian Railways issue: overcrowding.
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The BJP is back in power after 27 years. Here’s how Kejriwal engineered his own downfall.
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