Journalist and writer | @hindustantimes (HT Wknd) Previously with @thehindu, MetroPlus | Culture | Arts| Books | History | Leads: [email protected]
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#HTwknd ✨| The Eiffel Tower was famously considered an eyesore, when it opened in 1889. Parisians mourned that their city had been scarred by this industrial-era metal behemoth.
The Eiffel would of course go on to become a symbol of love, elegance, and Paris itself.
In this way, our view of iconic structures shifts and alters over time, as tastes change and ideas of beauty and belonging are reframed.
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Music, and lyrics?: #HTWknd talks to Julie Elie, the award-winning scientist decoding bird calls
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#HTwknd ✨ | Six months after his mother Janet Rogers died, Simon Rogers, 58, found himself in a field in northern California, unable to sleep, feeling an overwhelming, disorienting sense of grief.
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#HTwknd ✨ | What does our search history reveal about humanity? 🔎🌍 Simon Rogers explores the questions we ask Google—and what they reveal about us.
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Meanwhile @RahulGandhi having lunch with @TVKVijayHQ. Cops hesitant to release detainees because same Rahul Gandhi has event in the evening.
42 people detained in Besant nagar.
Over 20 police officers present.
Unprecedented levels of police excess in detainment.
Shame on @TVKVijayHQ and the entire TN ruling party for allowing this to happen.
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#HTwknd✨ | Renaissance masters and abstract pioneers—women artists the art world forgot.
For centuries, their work was overlooked, misattributed, or left gathering dust. Now, museums are bringing these remarkable artists back into the spotlight. 🖼️🌟
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#HTwknd✨ | Renaissance masters and abstract pioneers—women artists the art world forgot.
For centuries, their work was overlooked, misattributed, or left gathering dust. Now, museums are bringing these remarkable artists back into the spotlight. 🖼️🌟
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For centuries, #arthistory has had a massive blind spot: women. Even artists revered in their lifetime, end up in mouldy basements and have work credited to husbands, fathers. Read about the masters who never got their due.
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Never imagined an experiment in 2010 would grow into a story worth telling across the country!!
Grateful to every tree/volunteer/well wisher/challenge!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you @htTweets for featuring my story and @gowrianils for narrating it so beautifully!!
#SaveFullyGrownTrees
In Varanasi, Tokyo, Helsinki and about 500 other urban hubs, simulations are helping governments manage traffic, plan new additions, track shifting populations. Read the whole story here:
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#HTPremium || From Singapore's Marina Bay to Varanasi's flood maps, over 500 cities are now running on "digital twins" — real-time simulations powered by satellites, sensors and AI.
✍️Read the full HT Wknd feature by Gowri S (@gowrianils)🔗
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Followed up on a tweet that @thirdmainroad shared about further degradation to ancient idols retrieved by the TN Police due to renovation works at the government museum in Egmore. Really hope things change. Some of these date back to the 11th Century surely.
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#HTPremium | A jellyfish that has survived for over 500 million years without a brain. A sea slug that can detach its head and regrow its body. A ghost shark whose lineage predates trees and even the North Star. Meet nature’s ultimate odd squad—extraordinary species whose remarkable adaptations continue to reveal fascinating clues about life on Earth.
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What special bond does #Ilaiyaraaja share with bus drivers and conductors in #TamilNadu? Ahead of his concerts this weekend, the drivers talk to me about the calm that his melodies bring to impossible days. I also curated a playlist of their suggestions. Link in the next tweet!
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#HTwknd ✨ | 💻 Ctrl-Alt-Deceit: As cyber gangs grow smarter with call centres and ‘HR’, Anja Shortland reveals how ransomware crime hits us all ⚠️📖
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It appears that 3,000 words aren't enough to capture the whimsy of our favourite supercilious pet, the cat.
My fav Centre Spread for @htTweets yet. Scroll through the paintings to know your cat better. Here's a very cute digital interactive -
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✨ #HTWknd | ➡️ Clone rangers by @gowrianils
➡️ @dpanajana's Tribute to a mighty heart
➡️ @sanjoynarayan 's The controlled chaos of geese
➡️ How the order half lives by @datta_sukanya
➡️ You gotta have faith, with @c_assisi
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✨ #HTWknd | ➡️ @samanth_s on The Web Beneath the Waves — @gowrianils
➡️ Christmas celebrations around the World, in India & more (Sukanya D, @AneshaGeorge)
➡️ @sanjoynarayan's ode to Miles Davis
➡️ F1: The insanity & obsession, by @_kunal_pradhan
➡️ Embracing age, with @c_assisi