Culture
The Great Indian Wedding Correction
The ₹10 lakh wedding is quietly replacing the ₹1 crore one — and an entire economy of decorators, caterers, and expectations is renegotiating itself.
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Culture.
Food, language, festivals, and the arguments in between.
Culture
The Second Coming of Millets
Ragi and jowar fed India for four thousand years before rice and wheat pushed them to the margins. Climate, cardiology, and clever chefs are bringing them home.
Culture
The Library of Lost Scripts
India has written in more than sixty scripts. A dozen are down to their last readers. The race to digitise them is a race against funerals.