Prithu’s Cow, Ashoka’s Lion
New Indian Expressby Devdutt Pattanaik·2d ago
About a thousand years ago, when Rajasekhar wrote his discourse on poetry, the Kavya Mimansa, Aryavarta stretched from the Himalayas down to the Vindhya mountains, bounded on the east and west by...
Exercise Snacking Works
New Indian Expressby Anjali Awasthi·2d ago
Forget the hour-long gym session. Exercise snacking is all about short bursts of physical activity—anywhere from 30 seconds to five minutes—sprinkled through the day.
Leveraging the Power of Attitude
New Indian Expressby Swami Sukhabodhananda·2d ago
Attitude creates altitudes in life. What should be one’s attitude towards oneself and others? In Sanskrit, there are two related words: mitra and maitri.
Crossing Her Bass Line
New Indian Expressby Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya·2d ago
For Nilanjana Ghosh Dastidar, playback singing began almost as an afterthought. She was a bassist in AR Rahman’s band when, during a trip to Florida, Rahman asked her to sing a scratch track.
A Matter of Perspective
New Indian Expressby Medha Dutta Yadav·2d ago
Stand close to one of Savya Jain’s paintings, and the surface begins to reveal itself in fragments—marks beneath marks, pigment interrupted by pigment, gestures that seem to have been erased but...
Tamil Nadu’s Vijay Model Could Be India’s Political Disruption
New Indian Expressby Ravi Shankar·2d ago
There is a problem with praising politicians. They are treated like gods until their inevitable fallibility becomes a joke.
In Search of Black Gold
New Indian Expressby Teja Lele·2d ago
A round a freshly dug hole at Beltana Farm, the knobbly black truffle is passed from hand to hand. Only moments earlier, it was hidden beneath the roots of an oak tree.
Rolling With the Punches
New Indian Expressby Ahmed Mir·2d ago
At five in the morning, hours before the Under-15 Asian Boxing Championships final began in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Mohammad Yasser was awake, thinking about the mistakes he had made in the...
Flavours of Delhi
New Indian Expressby Tej Prakash Bhardwaj·2d ago
Delhi’s street food is rarely about restraint. It’s quick, spicy, and generous with flavours. Upstairs, a new members-only jazz and martini bar at The Lodhi, takes these familiar flavours and...
All the suite things
New Indian Expressby Sana Krishna·2d ago
When John Jacob Astor IV opened the first St. Regis in New York in 1904, he introduced more than another grand hotel.
Keeping Company With Trees
New Indian Expressby Sheila Kumar·2d ago
Studies have repeatedly shown that being near trees lowers our blood pressure, slows our heart rate and reduces stress hormones; the activity cuts down cortisol, the main chemical our body makes in...
The Fearless Generation
New Indian Expressby Medha Dutta Yadav·2d ago
A new India has taken to the streets. And more are coming to take on the establishment. The older generation is worried—and more so because Gen Alpha has caught on and is following the lead of Gen...
Gagging the Digital Jester
New Indian Expressby Anand Neelakantan·2d ago
The conventional press, sustained by the pelf of government-sponsored advertisements, has devolved into a congregation of chanting devotees.
Count No One Happy Until They Die
New Indian Expressby Gaurav Yadav·2d ago
Croesus was an extremely wealthy king who ruled in Lydia. In fact, people often said ‘as rich as Croesus’ to describe someone who was very wealthy.
Decoding the Mystery of Life
New Indian Expressby Atul Sehgal·2d ago
Most of us ordinary folks find the subjects of God, spirituality and metaphysics esoteric and hard to understand.
TNPL 2026: Karthik shines as Salem finally win a match
New Indian Expressby Ashok Venugopal·2d ago
CHENNAI: Veteran left-arm spinner Rahil Shah's three-wicket haul and Karthik Manikandan's 57 came in handy for Salem Spartans to defeat Tiruppur Tamizhans by 45 runs in the TNPL at the MA...
Team management & captain need to show more faith in Kuldeep, says Pujara
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·2d ago
CHENNAI: For Kuldeep Yadav, the headlines have always been associated with ‘uncertainty, tricky, unfortunate.’ With the team management’s preference on batting depth, Kuldeep’s playing time has...
Bangladesh open to joining Saudi Arabia-Pakistan-Turkiye defence pact, ministers say
New Indian Expressby PTI·2d ago
DHAKA: Bangladesh is open to joining the recently formed defence alliance between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye, two junior ministers have said, while stressing that any decision would be...
Post injury, Yarraji has good outing with int’l hurdlers
New Indian Expressby Express News Service·2d ago
CHENNAI: Quadriceps, hamstrings and (another) knee – these are the other injuries hurdler Jyothi Yarraji had to battle through in her 383-day-long road to being fit from an anterior cruciate...
Canada to impose retaliatory tariffs on US after Carney walks away from ‘bad deal’
New Indian Expressby AFP·2d ago
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Saturday he would slap retaliatory tariffs on the United States after walking away from a "bad deal" on trade, deepening the rift between the...
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