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Tom Daley knitting at the Olympics | The sew bros stitch together a new brotherhood

Prabalika M. Borah

Tom Daley’s casual poolside knitting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, pointed us in the direction of a growing breed of men knitters called the ‘sew bros’ who are honing a skill and engaging in a healthy conversation on masculinity

‘Kozhimarunnu’ tastes best with piping hot rice

Chicken for the soul in the month of Karkkadakam

At reCharkha – The EcoSocial Tribe, plastic fibre made from discards is made into utilitarian and aesthetic products

sustainability Environment

Amita Deshpande’s reCharkha is giving a new spin to discarded plastic

Saraswathy Nagarajan Using the charkha and looms, Pune-based reCharkha – The EcoSocial Tribe, upcycles plastic trash into a range of aesthetic products

Test run with Little Amal

Puppet Little Amal walks 8,000 km, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother

Priyadarshini Paitandy Good Chance Theatre’s latest production features a Syrian puppet that will walk from Gaziantep to Manchester, to raise awareness on the refugee crisis

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The newly-issued stamps for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

These rare and new stamps celebrate the greatest sports show on Earth

Chechen Muslims pray in a mosque on the first day of Id-ul-Azha in Grozny, Russia.

Bakrid celebrations around the world: A kaleidoscope

Faith

Karma and its effects

Vibhava experiences

In the Gita, the Lord explains the purposes of His incarnations, namely, to protect the good, to destroy the evil doers, and to establish dharma. Apart from the ten main avatars of the Lord, acharyas have pointed out that there are many more when God intervenes for these purposes. Vedanta Desika shows that His avatars give the jivatmas the chance to experience His auspicious qualities and His greatness, pointed out Asuri Sri Madhavachariar in a discourse. For it is true that He can accomplish

Agency and enjoyment

Sastras are meant to benefit the jivatmas caught in samsara. In every birth the jivatma is compelled to act and this entails his experiencing the fruits of his action. So whatever birth the jivatma takes, he automatically becomes the doer and the enjoyer. Among the many sutras in the Brahmasutra that discuss the identity of the soul, the sutra 'Karta Sastrarthavatvat,' establishes that agency and enjoyment are for the soul, though this is not its nature, pointed out Sri Mani Dravid Sastrigal in

History & Culture

History & Culture

The Kanjeevaram legacy

Chitra Deepa Anantharam

An aerial view of the majestic Town Hall, a heritage structure which is being renovated under the Smart City project, in Visakhapatnam.

Iconic Town Hall and Old Municipal Building to open to public soon

Nivedita Ganguly Renovation project carried out at a cost of ₹15 crore

Maria Christopher Byrski.

History & Culture

A diplomat’s love of drama

G.S. Paul Maria Christopher Byrski, Sanskrit scholar and former Polish ambassador to India, continues his love for Koodiyattam and ancient Indian theatre

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Shasvathi Siva’s video and support group on Instagram help erase the stigma around divorce

Faith

Karma and its effects

Ancestral Dravidian languages were possibly spoken by many in Indus Valley civilisation, says study

Faith

Vibhava experiences

History & Culture

Tribute to veteran Kathakali artiste Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboothiri

Tokyo Olympics Society

Tom Daley knitting at the Olympics | The sew bros stitch together a new brotherhood

Chicken for the soul in the month of Karkkadakam

‘Kozhimarunnu’, tender chicken cooked in medicinal herbs, is integral to the diet during Karkkadakam at many households in North Kerala

Agency and enjoyment

Sastras are meant to benefit the jivatmas caught in samsara. In every birth the jivatma is compelled to act and this entails his experiencing the

Manifested life

All beings, with or without faith in the scriptures, are involved in some search that they hope will give them happiness. Naturally, they look for it

Amita Deshpande’s reCharkha is giving a new spin to discarded plastic

Using the charkha and looms, Pune-based reCharkha – The EcoSocial Tribe, upcycles plastic trash into a range of aesthetic products

A heron at home on an IT corridor

At a time when waterbirds that hang around reeds, shrubs and tall grasses are dwindling due to a pernicious mindset that views such vegetation as useless, the purple heron seems to have found refuge in the Pallikaranai marsh cheek by jowl with Chennai’s software hub

Mantra to protect children

Kamsa sends Putana to kill the baby Krishna, growing up in Gokula. Srimad Bhagavatam says she went as a lovely lady. Why did Putana have to adorn

The challenge of childcare during the pandemic

Working parents are in a fix as daycare centres and crèches are yet to be allowed to reopen

Elon Musk sends Chennai entrepreneur over the moon

A tweet liked by the SpaceX CEO ensures quick support for city-based startup Garuda Aerospace, which specialises in drone-based applications

Sunday quiz: What has August 1 ever given us?

Easy like Sunday morning

Find the queen

Both vulnerable, South deals

Poverty has been the dominant theme in my writings: economist C.T. Kurien

The distinguished professor has been a lifelong champion of using economic theories as tools to impact real-life situations

He enables worship

Thirumoolar in his Thirumantiram likens Lord Siva to clouds in the sky. He sees the relationship between himself and Lord Siva as that between a calf

Growing up non-binary in today’s India

Agender, genderfluid, bigender — children and young adults finally have a name to put to what they are feeling. Now parents and the society must learn how to be supportive and respectful

Terrorists call for inclusive snooping policy

Do you know that among the world’s poorest democracies, India is the only one with the courage to invest thousands of crores in state-of-the-art snooping technology?

Athlete Ila Mitra missed the 1940 Olympics, but became an indomitable peasant leader

Instead of sprinting in the 1940 Olympics, gifted athlete Ila Mitra was jailed and tortured for joining the famous Tebhaga peasant uprising in Bengal. Here is her story of immense courage

Foreign objects

Opinion | Of double agents and patriotic NRIs

Discarded sinks find new life as Jaipur Blue Pottery

By upcycling ceramic waste, interdisciplinary designer Disharee Mathur reinvents the heritage craft of Jaipur Blue Pottery at the ongoing, digital graduate show ‘RCA2021’

One must control senses

Vamana tells Mahabali that all He wants is land equal to what He can measure with three steps. This seems so insignificant a request, that Mahabali

How Vechoor Thankamani revived Thullal

Vechoor Thankamani enriched two of Kerala’s folk arts, Thullal and Kurathiyattam, in the past century, while retaining their simplicity

‘Krishikarna’, a project to promote hi-tech farming, launched in Pallikkal panchayat of Thiruvananthapuram

Ten farmers in the panchayat are setting up mini polyhouses under the project

These rare and new stamps celebrate the greatest sports show on Earth

An ongoing virtual philately exhibition, Olymphila India 2021, celebrates the Tokyo Olympics through various treasured postage stamps of history

In praise of Hanuman

Valmiki Ramayana has six kandas, but not one of them is named after the hero or heroine. In fact, no kanda is named after any character in the epic,

The Kanjeevaram legacy

Award winning artisan weaver, B Krishnamoorthy, is creating a repository with samples of all the designs, patterns and motifs traditional to Kanjeevaram silk sari weaving, preserving fine pieces for posterity

Anbe, a vernacular dating app by Aisle, is aimed at Tamil speakers

From biryani to Thalapathy, expect topics and conversations related to all things Tamil on Anbe, a Tamil-language dating app created by the folks over at Aisle

Rama’s truthfulness

Rama’s sterling qualities drew the whole of Ayodhya to Him. His auspicious qualities attracted not only His subjects, but also Azhvars and Acharyas,

This documentary about animal rescue is ‘a labour of love for the voiceless’

Featuring actors Shraddha Kapoor and Jim Sarbh, ‘The Tails of Boo Boo & Cuddly Poo’ is a passion-driven, quirky documentary that spreads the message of acceptance, rescue and care for India’s community cats and dogs

Puppet Little Amal walks 8,000 km, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother

Good Chance Theatre’s latest production features a Syrian puppet that will walk from Gaziantep to Manchester, to raise awareness on the refugee crisis

Madhu and Kaitabha

When Lord Narayana asked Brahma to create the world, Brahma became very proud of himself. To teach him a lesson, the Lord made two asuras — Madhu and

You can count on Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’

Twenty-one-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, known as ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’, talks about his love for numbers and his ed-tech startup Exploring Infinities

Don Bosco alumni address a less-known pandemic issue: The threat to the girl child’s education

As part of its initiative Min Siragugal, the school’s 1997 batch provides laptops to 50 underprivileged Class X girl students from two Adi-Dravidar schools on the outskirts of Chennai. It has plans to scale up the initiative

A community that is prepared for the rainy day

The numbers speak for themselves: Jains Pebble Brook in Chennai needs 3.3 lakh litres of water every day. During the rainy season, it manages this requirement 10 to 15 days in a month with just the bounty from the skies

Steps to realisation

Most of us who are involved in worldly concerns are said to be in Pravritti Marga. This kind of preoccupation ties us down to samsara, the cycle of

Parambikulam Tiger Reserve to conduct online video competition to observe Global Tiger Day on July 29

Entries to be accepted from July 29 on Instagram and Facebook pages of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve

Sunday Quiz: on spices and herbs

There is no sincerer love than the love of food: George Bernard Shaw

Technique

North bid four hearts when accepting South’s game try in case South had a four-card heart suit. South correctly went back to spades. The game was a

How one woman’s extraordinary efforts gave a poverty-stricken island its own English-medium school

In the Sundarbans, a teacher from Kolkata found people steeped in poverty, without one decent school for their children. She resolved to do something about it

Indian roots are not umbilical cords and no amount of spicy chicken tikka love can change that fact

That Wimbledon boys’ champion Samir Banerjee is actually American felt like an aside, with news anchors gushing about a “huge moment of pride for India”

Bond of karma

When the Lord incarnates as a human being, He is not bound by any karma or sorrow, as is with the case of all others right from Brahma to the smallest

Gira, on her own terms

Memories of working and interacting with the incomparable Gira Sarabhai

As the pandemic makes digital teaching the norm, these initiatives are bringing school to rural children

As children in rural India, with little access to gadgets and networks, are pushed into deeper marginalisation, a look at some initiatives that try to change this

Frames and the man: why Danish Siddiqui’s work makes him a hero

Opinion | Understanding what Danish Siddiqui did and why his work makes him a hero

Interpreting Rama’s lament

Valmiki showcases Rama’s equanimity of mind when Kaikeyi tells Him that she is conveying His father’s orders, namely, that the Pattabhishekam is

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