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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

Lore, legend and just so many syllables: OED is in the midst of a revamp

How does one track a language evolving so fast? Efforts have involved JRR Tolkein, K-dramas, and a red post box that still stands outside a home in Oxford.

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Updated on Feb 14, 2025 07:00 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Heads or tales?: A new photo project focuses on the stray dogs of Goa

With few humans in the frame, Rain Dogs offers an unusual perspective: the interior lives of dogs, a species we're used to seeing with their eyes trained on us.

Photographer Rohit Chawla has had exhibitions around the world, featuring powerful art and award-winning projects, but this one is closest to his heart, he says. (Rohit Chawla / Rain Dogs)
Updated on Jan 18, 2025 06:46 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Somewhere Rover the rainbow : Unusual memorials for pets around the world

A matchbox coffin for a fly who once lived in an office; a headstone for a messenger pigeon; a snail who ‘lived life well’... vignettes from a new book.

The grave of Jonny, a snail that lived for over a year in a man’s backyard in Los Angeles. (Paul Koudounaris)
Updated on Jan 18, 2025 06:38 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Ads, dresses, spindly elephants: More from the Dali universe

He created illustrations and covers for magazines, sets for a ballet, designed dresses and commercial art. Here are more samples of the master artist’s work.

The iconic lobster dress created in collaboration with fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.
Updated on Jan 10, 2025 06:26 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Trail mix: Check out photographs by the award-winning Steve Winter

His images have helped push for new infrastructure, new laws. Some are just impossibly beautiful views of the natural world beyond what most of us know of it.

A leopard walks through a residential neighbourhood in India. Leopard-human conflict has been on the rise here, as cities and towns encroach into dwindling forests. (Photo: Steve Winter / Big Cat Voices)
Updated on Dec 21, 2024 07:04 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Twist in the pot: Indian cookbooks are celebrating new kinds of mixed heritage

A chivda made with Froot Loops. A palak-paneer spanakopita. Shrikhand cannolis. Take a tour of joyful experiments, old longings and new perspectives.

Meat blintzes by Elana Benjamin, a Baghdadi Jew in Australia. A range of fermented hot pepper sauces by Indian-Guyanese-Canadian Devan Rajkumar. Keralan fried chicken sandwiches with a curry leaf mayo by Khushbu Shah, a Gujarati in the US. (Photos:Shibani Mishra, Suech and Beck, Aubrie Pick)
Updated on Dec 01, 2024 09:02 AM IST
ByAnesha George

Sick with worry?: A look at the arc of hypochondria

From kings with ‘glass delusion’ to fretful names from the worlds of art and literature, the story of hypochondria is a long and riveting one.

Girl Before A Mirror (1932) by Pablo Picasso. (Wikimedia)
Updated on Nov 09, 2024 07:42 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Swipe, match, repeat?: How to get more out of your dating apps

It isn’t easy. It often isn’t even fun. Amid the many evolving hacks and rules, what can you do differently? Here are our top tips from the experts.

In Nobody Wants This (2024-), Kristen Bell’s character develops the ick for the otherwise loveable Noah (played by Adam Brody). His fouls: Referring to a blazer as a sports coat, carrying enormous sunflowers, and using a fake Italian accent in a joke.
Updated on Nov 02, 2024 01:36 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Match point: If dating is a track event, what kind of runner are you?

Amid hurdles, qualifiers, red cards and scorekeeping, it's begun to feel a lot like a competitive sport. Are you a sprinter,marathoner or hobby runner? Find out

 (Image generated via Adobe Firefly)
Updated on Nov 02, 2024 01:34 PM IST
ByAnesha George

In photos: Take a look at some of Abu Abraham’s most iconic political cartoons

Decades later, they elicit a chuckle. The art is minimalist, but memorable. In the iconic cartoonist's centenary year, a tour of some of his best-loved work.

A take on the language wars. (Image courtesy Ayisha Abraham)
Updated on Nov 01, 2024 08:32 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Are there lessons for managing AI, climate, in tales from 1,000 years ago?

What could the first-ever financial crash teach us about AI? Are there clues to tackling climate change, in slave revolts? Take a look.

A painting of the Nihonbashi Fish Market in 18th-century Edo, Japan. (Wikimedia Commons)
Updated on Oct 26, 2024 04:15 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Lost manuscripts, whirlwind romances: When movies leave a paper trail

Check out a book on the bro code, another by Ant-Man, a memoir by Selina Meyer of Veep, and other dramatic and whimsical tales emerging from films and TV.

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Updated on Oct 26, 2024 04:13 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Going bunkers on screen: See how tech-driven dystopias have played out

Since almost its start, cinema has worked to explore the possible evolutions and fallouts of emerging technology. How have hyper-digital worlds played out?

As satellites fail and communication systems blink out, smart cars go rogue and block highways in the Netflix film Leave the World Behind (2023).
Updated on Oct 11, 2024 07:59 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Rivals, pirates, malware: Whispers of cyberthreats from the future

As consumer devices explode and suspicious code turns up in new places, the digital battlefield is changing shape. Are we as well-prepared as we should be?

The threat of outages is real too. The US’s computer model DAGGER uses AI and other algorithms to analyse solar wind and geomagnetic disturbances and predict their likely impact worldwide, at least 30 minutes before they occur. (NASA / ESA / SOHO)
Updated on Oct 11, 2024 08:00 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Ballast from the past: How did Bronze Age boats sail the open seas?

Using an ancient recipe – with no nails, screws or metal – researchers in Abu Dhabi have created a Magan boat similar to those that sailed 4,000 years ago.

(Photo courtesy Emily Harris / Zayed National Museum)
Updated on Sep 28, 2024 04:02 PM IST
ByAnesha George

All puns blazing: What makes a good joke?

It turns out, puns, sex, wives and stupidity are eternal themes. There are also ancient versions of ‘My friend took a trip and all I got was this T-shirt’.

(HT Illustrations: Jayanto)
Updated on Sep 28, 2024 03:58 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve : The purpose of regret

Everyone feels it, and wishes they didn’t. We're more likely to regret things we didn’t do or didn’t say. What is its purpose, this gnawing feeling? Take a look

(Adobe Stock)
Updated on Sep 14, 2024 12:38 PM IST
ByAnesha George

A Wknd Watchlist: Underrated OTT shows that deserve a chance

It’s not just you. It is getting harder to find something good to watch. What should you be streaming, if you’ve already run through your list? Take a look.

Now in its third season, Industry on Apple TV+ is a fast-paced drama about young financial traders in London.
Updated on Sep 13, 2024 05:30 PM IST
ByAnesha George

The streaming wars are over, and you’ve lost

See why it’s becoming so much harder to find something good to watch — and how ‘good’ itself is being redefined — amid the rise of Mid TV.

For many in the audience, Emily in Paris, now in its fourth season, represents the new low in streaming. Within the world of streaming platforms, meanwhile, there is a sense that brave, expensive efforts such as The Last of Us simply do not pay off.
Updated on Sep 13, 2024 05:29 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Death metal: The dark side of gold

Miners working without pay, cyanide and other toxins leaching into lakes and groundwater... take a look at some of the true costs of the precious metal.

Miners working in an open-pit gold mine in Congo. (AFP Photo)
Updated on Sep 06, 2024 02:21 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Gilty pleasure: India is where gold came to shine

What drove the desire for this metal in pre-colonial India, and what keeps it going? See how our love for gold has evolved, shaping us and our country.

A Harappan humped bull with gold horns.
Updated on Sep 06, 2024 02:20 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Our preciousss...: A look at our 6,000-year history with gold

As an exhibition and a new book shed light on this shining trail, see some of the world’s finest artefacts, grandest tributes and the metal’s deep, dark secrets

A warrior's plaque from 700 CE Panama; the ceremonial throne of the boy-king Tutankhamun, c. 1300 BCE; a wreath from Ancient Greece, c. 300 BE.
Updated on Sep 06, 2024 02:11 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Red between the lines: What do your city’s climate stripes look like?

As these charts – created for cities, countries and the planet as a whole – shift from blues to reds across 150 years, the message is simple: The heat is on.

HT artist Monica Gupta overlays, on the climate-stripes chart for Earth, some of the species at risk, including us. (Image courtesy Ed Hawkins / University of Reading)
Updated on Aug 24, 2024 04:15 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Behind the zines: A look at Kerala’s Muslim women rebels, from a century ago

Tucked into magazines from the early 1900s are stories of women writers, poets, doctors and travellers. An online archive is retelling these tales.

An issue of Vanitha (Malayalam for Woman). The magazine was set up and run by M Haleema Beevi, who was taken out of school in Class 7. (Courtesy Around the Sufrah)
Updated on Aug 10, 2024 04:23 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Hold on to your hearts: The rise of the de-influencer

Food, health, travel and more: In a world of commercial content disguised as opinion, de-influencers urge people to pause and ask, ‘Wait... is that true?’

 (HT Illustration: Rahul Krishnan)
Updated on Aug 02, 2024 05:00 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Deleting chat history...: The strange story behind short-lived slang

Some of the newest slang seems designed to fizzle out. See what this says about us. Plus, revisit ancient slang, and see what makes some terms survive centuries

 (HT Imaging: Monica Gupta)
Updated on Jul 27, 2024 06:56 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Word famous: Vikas Swarup of Q&A / Slumdog Millionaire, discusses his new book

The Girl with the Seven Lives, his first in 11 years, is darker than Q&A. The main character is hiding something. ‘She isn’t automatically lovable,’ he says.

Swarup’s own confession? He’s revelling in all the free time he now has, as a retired diplomat. ‘I sometimes have to ask my wife what day it is. It’s unreal, in a good way.’ (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 19, 2024 08:19 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Paint my love: See how weddings are captured live on canvas

It’s hard work completing a painting in real time. But the results cause gasps, laughter, happy tears. See how artists get it done.

A painting by Chetan Advirkar, 30, from Mumbai. The rush and hurry, the interruptions and comments from guests, are par for the course. But wedding season also stretches through the winters, and “my hands become so rigid, it’s sometimes hard to hold the brush,” he says, laughing.
Updated on Jul 12, 2024 09:01 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Reef encounters: See photos of global efforts to save threatened corals

As reefs change in response to rising temperatures, oceanographers are trying to help heat-sensitive species survive; find refuge areas for colonies.

A reef ecosystem photographed by Patrick Buerger, who heads an applied-biosciences lab at Macquarie University in Australia. Buerger was lead author on a study that involved breeding heat-resistant microalgae to give corals a better shot.
Updated on Jul 05, 2024 06:37 PM IST
ByAnesha George

Riffing with intent: The race to save India’s coral reefs

Could the Gulf of Kutch, where temperatures are typically higher, offer clues to the way forward? Could refuge areas be found within the oceans? Take a look.

A healthy patch of Goniopora in Lakshadweep, early last year. Scroll for a view of how it has since faded. (Wenzel Pinto)
Updated on Jul 05, 2024 06:05 PM IST
ByAnesha George
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