Pujo & the Politics of Food

Saturday October 17 2026

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Meat & greet: A Durga Puja story

We recommend the best new album releases from August to October this year.

An excerpt from Saeed Naqvi’s new book about Indian journalists in the ’70s and ’80s.

Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases.

Souk recommends a fab list of must-buys for your shopping cart.

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.