Kyoto Calling: Sakura, shrines, and sake

Saturday August 10 2024

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Kyoto Calling: Sakura, shrines, and sake

A wonderful piece of visual history—postage stamps commemorating seven freedom fights.

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.

Press play for a love letter this Independence Day—in Hindi—with a smattering of Tamil.

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.