What we do not realise is how we are part of a continuum, and how happiness, the way it appears before us, is far more a constructed idea than we …
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The Icy Backstory to That ‘Clink Clink’ You’ll Hear When Raising a Toast to the End of 2020
The history of ice in drinks goes back to antiquity. But it only really got going when a Bostonian started exporting ice to the British in colonial India.
Reader Favourites in 2020: 15 of the Stories You Loved Most
A list of the most popular stories on the site and our Instagram page in 2020.
Coolie No. 1: A Disastrous Bollywood Remake That Shouldn’t Exist
The Amazon Prime Video film collapses under the weight of Varun Dhawan trying to act but his father and director David Dhawan is there to catch him and dress him up …
An ‘Ode to Joy’: Beethoven’s 250th Birth Month
Beethoven's prophetic symphonies helped me power through the worst of this pandemic.
A Year of Blursdays: How Coronavirus Distorted Our Sense of Time in 2020
My research shows how lockdown changed our perception of time this year – and holds clues for how we'll experience the wait for a vaccine in 2021.
‘Perfect Blue’: Relevance of a 1997 Anime Film in Today’s ‘Real’ World
The anime truly makes one question if it is humanly possible to find your “true self" or the “real me".