Raziya bint Iltutmish: The rise of a queen

Saturday May 20 2023

advisory

Culture

Raziya bint Iltutmish: The rise of a queen

How South India’s beloved appam became a breakfast delicacy in Singapore too.

We pick the best new book releases for your reading pleasure.

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

Advisory Editor Sooraj Rajmohan lists his fav rock music from the 70s to the present.

The splainer team, past and present, picked the Big Stories we most loved and are proud of.

The declining number of foreign tourists has caused panic. The boa constrictor in the room? Smog.

We cut through mythmaking around the man who presided over the not-so ‘golden age of Tamils’.

We can’t afford to give up Russian oil or weapons without enduring some serious self-harm.