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One Battle After Another and the recalibration of the Paul Thomas Anderson canon
In his tenth feature, Paul Thomas Anderson stages a full-on recalibration of his longstanding obsessions — revolution and fatherhood, spectacle and intimacy, paranoia and inheritance — spooling them into a furious, awkwardly joyous action-epic that both extends and complicates his filmography
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As We Were and other poems by Aidan Baker
A mosaic of English memory and moral reckoning — from war and worship to class, cruelty, and fading glory — these poems trace how history, hierarchy, and human frailty echo through landscape, time, and conscience.
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The sunset of a million hues: An opacarophile’s discovery of the waterways of the Sundarbans
For an opacarophile who thought she’d seen every sunset, the Sundarbans revealed a beauty that was both untamed and unending
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How Manam Chocolates is rewriting India’s relationship with cacao, one bar and beverage at a time
At the newly opened experiential outpost in New Delhi’s Eldeco Centre, the Hyderabad-based craft chocolate house fuses origin, artistry, and innovation, transforming cacao into an immersive, multi-sensory experience that proves Indian chocolate is ready for its next chapter
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How Malavika Sarukkai reimagines Bharatanatyam for the Climate Age in ‘Beeja: Earth Seed’
Bharatanatyam exponent Malavika Sarukkai on her new production ‘Beeja: Earth Seed,’ in which dance becomes seed, stage becomes soil, and the audience is invited into an immersive meditation on our planet in the throes of climate change
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How an undercover activist exposed Spain’s darkest animal testing lab, and the global industry behind it
In ‘Undercover. Inside the Bunker,’ a new documentary, an undercover animal rights activist risks everything to reveal animal abuse in pharmaceutical testing lab
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Aloo Shorba: A short story by Pakistan’s Punjabi writer Afzal Tauseef, translated by C. Christine Fair
Aloo Shorba by Afzal Tauseef, translated by C. Christine Fair, tells the story of twin brothers orphaned in early childhood and separated after their grandmother’s death, each raised in starkly different households; one in privilege and the other in poverty.
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Sonder’s izakaya night trail: In the glow of lanterns and lives not your own
Between skewers, sake, and strangers’ confessions, Tokyo’s back-alley pubs reveal a softer Japan, where stories are shared, names are forgotten, and for a few hours, everyone belongs. Sonder’s Izakaya Night Trail curates just this kind of immersive unravelling.
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Soft landing: Five rugs that turn rainy days of Monsoon into cozy escapes
This monsoon, transform your floors into comfort zones with rugs that blend craftsmanship, style, and just the right amount of snug. These five picks will change your space into a cozy sanctuary.
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Sonder and the Japanese way of being: Immersive journeys into the land of the rising sun’s inner world
In Japan, sonder is not just an idea. It is a way of being. To travel sondered is to let the world happen to you. Slowly. Soulfully. With grace. And to leave, not just with memories, but with a new way of seeing. Discover immersive journeys into Japan’s inner world at sonderinjapan.com.
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The First Love: A short story by Surinder Deol
Ajit, a solitary retiree on a cruise to Japan, unexpectedly reconnects with Sarika, an enigmatic fellow traveler whose life story mirrors his own lost, unspoken love.
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Muzaffar Ali’s Umrao Jaan: A courtesan’s lament, a culture’s elegy
Muzaffar Ali’s 1981 masterpiece, now restored in 4K, is not just a story of Umrao’s life but a slow-burning meditation on beauty, exile, and the irrevocable loss of belonging; Rekha, Khayyam, Shahryar, and Asha Bhosle conjure a world on the verge of vanishing
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