This is the Advisory—your weekend edition of all things delightful! 🪨 This week: Seven exciting contemporary artists, the self-taught artist who built Chandigarh’s hidden utopia, @azadessa's Hostile Homelands, and our new release recommendations. splainer.in/posts/2025/Galle…

Here’s #TheAdvisory—your weekly edition of all things delightful! ​🇵🇱 This week: Walk through Warsaw in Meenakshi's guide, a Formula One books list by @aroomofwords, revisiting 'Rashomon' in the Trump era and of course, our new releases recommendations! splainer.in/posts/2025/Welco…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki aakhri taaza khabar includes an Indian football crisis, the problem with Justice Pancholi and our curtain raiser to the Venice Film Festival. Our fave bit: Three new avatars of splainer. ⚽️ splainer.in/sections/2025/Ni…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes Vantara’s hidden horrors, Emmanuel Macron’s debt problem & Musk’s Starship finally taking flight. Our fave bit: The 70th anniversary of the Guinness World Records. 🐘 splainer.in/sections/2025/Am…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes the death of the US NRI dream, a big experiment in pig lung transplants & Frank Lloyd Wright’s drippy design. Our fave bit: a microscopic dancing Ganesha! 🐘 splainer.in/sections/2025/No…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes #VoteChori and a CSDS controversy, famine has now ‘officially’ come to Gaza & Japan’s ‘blue’ power plant. The entertaining bit: The Medvedev tantrum show. 🎾 splainer.in/sections/2025/-M…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes India’s push for an indigenous GPS, a Dharmasthala dhamaka & YouTube AI-editing videos. Our fave bit: Say hello to Mallu Lisa. 🛰️ splainer.in/sections/2025/De…

#BigStory This is the last Big Story ever—as we wind down our last week of publication. The splainer team, past and present, picked the Big Stories we most loved and are proud of—as a fitting farewell and reminder of what we've done over the past 5 years. splainer.in/sections/2025/Gr…

Here’s #TheAdvisory—your weekly edition of all things delightful! 🖼️ This week: History of the Raja Ravi Varma Press @MAPAcademy_ , the etymology of 'it's raining cats and dogs' @Rupa_Books , our fave monsoon songs & our list of recommended new releases! splainer.in/posts/2025/Rajas…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes the real threat to aviation safety in India, sweeping GST changes and a wondrous new use for pollen. The fave bit: Focus Friend, the most popular free app. 🛬 splainer.in/sections/2025/In…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes the one Bill to topple them all, the anti-war movement in Israel & the US Open’s new mixed doubles format. The sad bit: ‘Swimming pool’ state of affairs in Mumbai. 🎾 splainer.in/sections/2025/Ga…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes Chinese Foreign Affairs minister Wang Yi’s Delhi trip, the war on online gaming and water being the new wine. The crazy bit: The mobile Lutheran church in Sweden. 🇨🇳 splainer.in/sections/2025/Re…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes Meta’s pedo-ish chatbots, China’s gloriously messy Robot Olympics and TIME’s ‘Girls of the Year 2025’ list. The horror bit: Europe’s wildfires. 🗞️ splainer.in/sections/2025/He…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes the circus of Trump’s diplomacy, Pakistan drowning in flash floods and Israel’s new plan for ethnic cleansing. Our fave bit: winner of the Andy Samberg lookalike contest. 🇵🇰 splainer.in/sections/2025/Pr…

#BigStory The declining number of foreign tourists has caused panic. The usual suspects like poor infrastructure, safety or marketing no longer explain why things are getting worse. The real under-the-radar boa constrictor in the room: Life-choking smog. splainer.in/sections/2025/In…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes how being stalked can seriously damage your heart health, Paytm autopay madness and Google’s plan to save news from itself. Our fave bit: Bubble shows in Edinburgh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 splainer.in/sections/2025/St…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes Bengaluru bidding adieu to the Women’s Cricket World Cup, the first salvo against same-sex marriage in the US and Ford’s big breakthrough in EV manufacturing. 🏏 splainer.in/sections/2025/Ba…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes the Supreme Court’s war on Delhi’s streeties, FSSAI’s new requirements to serve meat & good news about grasslands in Gujarat. The weird bit: a leopard being tied a rakhi. 🐕 splainer.in/sections/2025/Wa…

#HeadlinesThatMatter Aaj ki taaza khabar includes our free two-parter Big Story on the Rajendra Chola fantasy, yet another Vantara controversy & the alarming decline in conscientiousness. Fave bit: MLB’s first female umpire. ⚾️ splainer.in/sections/2025/He…

#BigStory We cut through mythmaking to trace the history of the Chola conqueror par excellence—who presided over the not-so ‘golden age of Tamils’. Fair warning: our hero has feet of A-grade clay—and is not quite the Dravidian hero Stalin hearts. 🗞️ splainer.in/sections/2025/Wh…