Saturday February 15 2025

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A Galentine love story… 
      of two pigeons!

A Galentine love story… 
      of two pigeons!

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Classical is Classical, and Jazz is Jazz. And when the twain meet, they make sweet, sweet music.

Jazz it up: Classical and Jazz crossovers

Eat

In this excerpt, we are introduced to the history of Dalit cuisine—shaped by the 1972 famine in Marathwada.

Drought effect: When Dalits embraced upper caste cuisine

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Love is complicated, contentious and contradictory—as these novels, memoirs and analyses reveal.

This love is real: A non-fiction reading list

Watch

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

We recommend: The best new movies and TV series

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Big edition: Greatest Hits Album

August 25 2025

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

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Big edition: Invisible India

August 18 2025

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

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Big edition: Whose Hero Is It Anyway?

August 11 2025

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

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Big edition: Russian Bear in the Room

August 4 2025

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

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