Hearts and spades: A history of playing cards

Saturday July 19 2025

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Culture

Hearts and spades: A history of playing cards

Myths, folklore, demons, and forest dwellers find their way on this list.

Indian flavours in an on-the-move bowl style.

A great list of art shows across cities to view till November.

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

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.