TV’s favourite door-breaker trades carefully scripted scenes for food trails, travel and freewheeling video diaries, and a younger audience is eating it all up

Harshini Kanhekar entered India’s fire services when its equipment, facilities and expectations assumed every firefighter would be male. This is a glimpse of her life

What began as a hate letter to the city transformed into a playful, honest romcom about finding your agency—and love—in the modern workplace

At 88, violin virtuoso Dr N Rajam reflects on social media, taming grand ragas, and sharing the stage with her family

Even as the FDA scrutinises city kitchens, chef and restaurateur Irfan Pabaney reveals the discipline, pride, bizarre diner whims, unspoken rules and overlooked utility crews behind every service

From Oppenheimer on sarangi to Squid Game on bansuri, Tushar Lall explains how Western scores and Indian instruments speak the exactly the same language

You may want to attend for the complimentary drink, but you’ll stay on to discover why your knowledge of Indian monuments ends somewhere between the Taj Mahal and the Golden Temple

A new youth-led collective offers LGBTQIA+ members room to read, meet, dress freely and build friendships on their own terms

Celebrated dancer Raadhika Khetarpal is taking the classical dance into temple courtyards to revive an older conversation between performance and worship

Art historian and curator Sonika Soni decodes Chokha’s paintings of Haldighati and the symbols hidden across the battlefield