The messiah rises in Dune: Part Three’s new trailer
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a portentous set of twin babies in the new trailer for Dune: …
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‘These connections are overlooked’: how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition
Britons learn about the country’s involvement ‘almost as a self-congratulatory narrative’, says historian Joseph Mulhern In 1845 British citizens and …
Sahitya Akademi announces 2025 winners: Navtej Sarna, Mamta Kalia, and Sa Tamilselvan among 24 awardees
Eight Sahitya Akademi winners were recognised in poetry, six in short fiction, four in the novel, two in the essay …
What is Swedish death cleaning? Margareta Magnusson, who taught the world to tidy up before signing off, dies at 92
What Marie Kondo is to tidying, Margareta Magnusson is to dying. Japanese organising consultant Marie Kondo taught the world to …
3 Jurgen Habermas books on democracy — and the debates they could not settle
It is a mark of a great philosopher when you keep carrying their ideas years and decades after the book …
Margareta Magnusson, Swedish ‘death cleaning’ author, dies age 92
Magnusson’s 2017 bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning turned the Scandinavian decluttering practice into a global phenomenonSwedish author …
Apple's MacBook Neo modded to a 1 TB SSD, breaking the firm's 512 GB barrier — base 256 GB model gets modded in expert NAND swap surgery
DirectorFeng, an expert technician in China has just performed what is likely the first hardware mod of its kind on …
Who was a Hindu? Shashi Tharoor revisits Sree Narayana Guru’s vision of reform in new book
Who was a Hindu in 1921? That year, the Census commissioner ruefully noted that “no Indian is familiar with the …
Locked in with The Iron Garden Sutra
Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend A.D. Sui's The Iron Garden Sutra, a meditative horror …
In ‘Place’, Ananya Vajpeyi Maps Grief, Politics and the Soul of Cities
The Victorians had a name for it: Melancholia. However, underlying the overwhelming sense of sadness that permeates much of Ananya …
Guns, Empire and the ‘Mortecene’
The making of the modern world was accompanied by extraordinary violence, exploitation and environmental devastation. But what if modern history …
Absent People, Absent Places: Bombay, breath, and the beautiful burden of being present
Some books arrive quietly. Others arrive like Bombay in the monsoon — sudden, cinematic, rain-slicked with memory and movement. Saranya …
Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their …