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.

Next week, splainer launches Souk—a marketplace of wonderful products worth your time and money.

A detailed New York Times investigation uncovers more answers than Indian agencies.

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.