(Re)discovering Shimla

Saturday January 31 2026

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Travel

Love in Shimla: An offbeat travel guide

A reading list of the maximalist writings of author & essayist David Foster Wallace.

Viswanathan Anand writes about the value of curiosity in his new book.

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

Souk recommends fun dress socks to cut through the gloom of corporate dressing.

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.