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Anesha George

Anesha George

Anesha is a features writer, sometimes a reader, who loves to eat and plan fitness goals she can never keep. She writes on food, culture and youth trends.

Articles by Anesha George

A long goodbye: Life-sized silicone statues are helping families in India mourn

Silicone sculptures of Samit Dutta’s parents, Arun and Hena Dutta, in Kolkata.

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 01, 2025 05:07 PM IST

Built to last: 30 years on, the legacy of Catan

The boardgame requires players to strategise but also collaborate, in order to make the most of their resources, as they build new settlements.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 18, 2025 07:03 PM IST

Mirror worlds: Planets we’ve uncovered that are sci-fi come to life

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 06:01 PM IST

Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for alien life planet

Stills from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Martian (2015) and Interstellar (2014). A NASA rendering of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068; an image of the Curiosity lander on Mars; and a rendering of the Trappist 1 system. (Images: NASA / CXC / SAO / J Schmidt and N Wolk; NASA / JPL-Caltech)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 05:56 PM IST

Dark wellness: A new genre of fiction traces grim extremes of self-care

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 03, 2025 06:31 PM IST

Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care

Luncheon of the Boating Party; 1881, by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Who gets to decide how one's time is spent? That has always been a measure of privilege. (Google Arts & Culture)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 03, 2025 06:28 PM IST

Safe words: Meet teen researching Gen Alpha slang, with an eye on online safety

(HT illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Art and Culture

Updated on Sep 13, 2025 10:19 PM IST

In photos: See how William Morris’s designs still permeate our world

Wallpaper designed by William Morris. (William Morris Gallery)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 04:11 PM IST

Mermaids, wandering trees: Inside the world of lesser-known Indian folktales

A folktale about why trees grew roots, told in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, offers a curt reminder that there is a price to be paid for turning a forest against you. (HT Illustration by Malay Karmakar)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 22, 2025 05:47 PM IST

Why is Mahjong everywhere?

A mahjong afternoon at the fine-dine Chinese restaurant Yauatcha in Mumbai.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 15, 2025 02:33 PM IST

Love mahjong? There are 40 versions of the game to consider

(Shutterstock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 04:07 PM IST

Relooted: A new videogame invites players to steal back African artefacts

Players take on the role of Nomali, a parkour expert who works with a small crew, drawn from different African countries for their unique skills.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 09, 2025 01:39 PM IST

AITA?: A look at the ‘trolley problems’ of today

A recreation of a popular trolley problem meme.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 02, 2025 02:35 PM IST

In photos: Step into the whimsical world of the Moomins

Tove Jansson’s cover illustration for Moumine le Troll, the French version of her 1968 book Finn Family Moomintroll.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 25, 2025 09:03 PM IST

In photos: What did our fruits, vegetables look like thousands of years ago?

Italian painter Giovanni Stanchi’s still-life painting from the 17th century shows a pale version of the modern watermelon. This fruit started out almost white, and quite bitter. (Courtesy Christie’s)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 18, 2025 05:06 PM IST

Secrets in Aisle 3: See how our fruits and vegetables once looked

The watermelon has its roots in the bitter, white-fleshed Kordofan melon, native to Africa. (HT photo illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 18, 2025 05:03 PM IST

Can your mixed emotions make you a better thinker? New science says they can

(Shutterstock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 05, 2025 12:54 PM IST

Bans, partner programmes, baby sharks: A look at YouTube by the numbers

Home run: Stills featuring some of India’s biggest YouTubers — Ajey Nagar aka CarryMinati, Amit Sharma aka Crazy XYZ, Bhuvan Bam of BB Ki Vines and Prajakta Koli aka MostlySane.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 01:50 PM IST

Deep in the shadowlands: Check out YouTube’s best-kept secrets

Deep YouTube, as researchers are calling it, has ended up a sort of record of who we are, how we lived, what we loved. Fragments range from experimental selfies to raw footage from dashcams, private events and a child’s rap song about Neptune’s many moons.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 01:47 PM IST

Wood omens: What will the forests of the future look like?

Pipes pump carbon into the air above a contained canopy, in an experiment underway in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. (Courtesy AmazonFACE)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 04:40 PM IST

Stop, sob, scroll: A look at the viral formula of ‘crying videos’

A sadbait meme. With sadbait, grief is the product, and catharsis is the promised reward for the viewer.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 31, 2025 10:50 PM IST

Designer Vino Supraja is winning awards for an unusual fashion formula

‘I’ve grown to accept that when I’m willing to let go, be dismantled and reassembled, good things happen to me,’ Supraja says. (Photo: Deepak Renganathan)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 30, 2025 05:13 PM IST

Why the cart is always full: The rise of the microtrend in fashion

King Louis XIV (r. 1643 -1715) is the reason we have ‘royal’ blue. Also above, gowns from 18th-century England and China. 19th-century Paris, 20th-century Australia, and H&M and Zara collections from 2025 and ’24. (National Museum of China, Wiki-media, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:25 PM IST

King Louis IX to birth of couture: The surprising history of fashion forecasting

In the 1850s, Charles Frederick Worth began to sew tags into his designs, bearing his name. This made him, essentially, the inventor of the “fashion label”. (Above) The Worth label on a Russian court dress from 1888. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:23 PM IST

The three Indias: Making sense of the great economic divide

Viewed as a separate country, India 1 - made up of the top 10% - would consist of about 140 million people, with per capita income at about <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>12.80 lakh. (Pixabay)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 04, 2025 08:01 AM IST

Where is the love? See why couples are breaking up, in the world of birds

On Australia’s Phillip Island, fertility rates are down, and separation rates within the world’s largest colony of penguins are shooting up. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:03 PM IST

Leaps of fate: See how people of the past attempted to predict the future

A 19th-century Chinese wheel of fortune. (Courtesy Divination, Oracles & Omens)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 05:26 PM IST

That sudden urge to jump from a high place? It has a name: the call of the void

(Shutterstock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 04:20 PM IST

The best seats in the world: A look at seven mega-stadiums now being built

In a nod to Morocco’s rich culture and nomadic past, the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca is being built to resemble a massive tent. (Oualalou + Choi)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 05:39 PM IST

A Beta world: A peek into the future of the next generation

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 03:26 PM IST

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