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‘There are a million Marilyns out there’: Andrew Wilson on Marilyn Monroe beyond the myths

‘There are a million Marilyns out there’: Andrew Wilson on Marilyn Monroe beyond the myths

In I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe, A Life in 100 Takes, the British biographer draws on unpublished letters and recordings to revisit Monroe’s acting, ambition, relationships and death in the year of her birth centenary

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Vikrant Patankar on making films, and figuring out how far an obsession can take him

Vikrant Patankar on making films, and figuring out how far an obsession can take him

Vikrant Patankar talks about learning cinema on his own, directing children, making musicals for tech companies, living with AI without surrendering to it, and why he still wants people to gather in a dark theatre

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Ramadan in Cairo: A glass of Karkadeh at sundown, the golden glow of Khan-el-Khalili

Ramadan in Cairo: A glass of Karkadeh at sundown, the golden glow of Khan-el-Khalili

Arriving in Cairo during Ramadan, a family unsure of what the holy month might mean for their holiday discovers a city whose days and nights follow a different rhythm

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The iPhone 18 Pro Max is a great phone, but is it worth replacing yours?

The iPhone 18 Pro Max is a great phone, but is it worth replacing yours?

The longer battery life and new camera controls make a real difference, especially if you’re coming from an older iPhone. But at ₹1,79,900 for 256 GB and 2TB of storage costing Rs 3,14,900, owners of last year’s model have a much harder decision

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Jenjum Gadi interview: ‘My village in Arunachal is my identity, Delhi made me who I’m today’

Jenjum Gadi interview: ‘My village in Arunachal is my identity, Delhi made me who I’m today’

In his new show, ‘Ngok Dolu,’ the designer-turned-artist rebuilds the Arunachal Pradesh village of his childhood in brass. In this interview, he talks about his mother, the loom that first drew him to creativity, two decades in fashion, a changing Tirbin, why he chose brass, and why he now wants to create a bridge for younger artists from the Northeast

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Filmmaker AK Srikanth on his debut novel, A Song for Eresha

Filmmaker AK Srikanth on his debut novel, A Song for Eresha

A Song for Eresha, AK Srikanth’s debut novel, follows a Bharatanatyam dancer whose ordered life is unsettled by her feelings for a young student. The author and filmmaker speaks about adapting the story for two forms, writing desire through silence, and creating a landscape governed by water

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Mihira Sood on the unfinished fight for gender equality: ‘The law is perhaps the strongest tool we have’

Mihira Sood on the unfinished fight for gender equality: ‘The law is perhaps the strongest tool we have’

In this conversation around her book, ‘Courting Equality’, the lawyer and author talks about Mathura and Rameeza Bee, Shah Bano, the UCC, Sabarimala, marital rape, dowry, MeToo, POSH, women in the judiciary and why representation still matters

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Chef Kulsum Begum, Chef Maliha Khan bring Hyderabad’s Salar Jung heirloom recipes to Chor Bizarre

Chef Kulsum Begum, Chef Maliha Khan bring Hyderabad’s Salar Jung heirloom recipes to Chor Bizarre

Chef Kulsum Begum and Chef Maliha Khan bring generations of closely guarded Salar Jung recipes to Delhi, opening up a lesser-known world of Hyderabadi aristocratic cooking, its techniques, memories and inherited tastes

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How Vandna Khera’s Ranng is rethinking what workwear should do

How Vandna Khera’s Ranng is rethinking what workwear should do

From a small design studio in 1994 to a workwear business producing at scale for aviation, hospitality, healthcare and industry, Ranng has travelled a long way. But founder and designer Vandna Khera says the question she still begins with is: who is going to wear this, and what will their day actually be like?

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Maaz Bin Bilal interview: On Allah Miyan’s Workshop, Urdu, Ghalib, and translation

Maaz Bin Bilal interview: On Allah Miyan’s Workshop, Urdu, Ghalib, and translation

As ‘Allah Miyan’s Workshop’ brings Mohsin Khan’s Urdu novel to English, the poet-translator speaks about the childhood and questions at its heart, memory, Ghalib, Ballimaran and the continuing conversation between Urdu and English

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At The LaLiT, 15 years of queer nightlife finds a new chapter in Kitty Su Beauty

At The LaLiT, 15 years of queer nightlife finds a new chapter in Kitty Su Beauty

Kitty Su marks 15 years with the launch of Kitty Su Beauty and the return of Battle Royale at the The LaLiT New Delhi, bringing together drag, makeup, nightlife and a community that has made the club what it is

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Macros keeps skincare simple, and the night  wipes are the real deal

Macros keeps skincare simple, and the night wipes are the real deal

The new skin-fitness brand pares the routine down to two products: an Active Concentrate Face Gel for mornings and serum-soaked Recovery Wipes at night. I tried both, and one they did make a difference

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