National Tourism Day 2025: Here is the history, significance, theme, quotes, and films that boosted tourist destinationsIndia celebrates National Tourism Day on January 25 to promote responsible, sustainable, and accessible tourism. 2025 theme is ‘Tourism for...
25 Jan, 2025, 10.58 AM IST
Swann's Way by Marcel ProustThe narrator used to fall asleep quickly, sometimes even before blowing out the candle. Waking up just half an hour later, the narrator wou...
04 Nov, 2024, 11.03 PM IST
ET Explainer: What’s up with AI and the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize?Why were two computer scientists, pioneers no doubt in advancing machine learning (ML) that powers artificial intelligence (AI), being give...
15 Oct, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Souvenirs de France: Here is a list of presents PM Modi received from the French PrezFrench President Emmanuel Macron presented Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with several gifts during his official visit to France, incl...
15 Jul, 2023, 10.39 AM IST
French President Macron gifts Modi Proust's novels, replica of Charlemagne chessmenMacron also gifted Modi a series of novels - A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) - by Marcel Proust published between 19...
14 Jul, 2023, 07.37 PM IST
Smell this column and remember wellIn Barcelona, an ice-cream company is using the science and art of mixing aromas to make ice-cream flavours custom-made to trigger memories...
14 Mar, 2023, 11.38 PM IST
150 years after her death, French author Colette remains an embodiment of liberated womanhoodColette openly talked about marital abuse at a time when it was taboo.
20 Jan, 2023, 04.11 PM IST
View: On keeping a date with anniversariesFor those of a more literary persuasion, 2022 has been quite the year for the centennial and the bicentennial.
13 Aug, 2022, 11.00 PM IST
Ireland celebrates 'Bloomsday' to mark centenary of James Joyce's 'Ulysses'This week fans will don period dress to celebrate their annual commemoration.
16 Jun, 2022, 06.23 PM IST
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard passes away at 92Howard, a professor emeritus at Columbia University, was suffering from dementia.
02 Apr, 2022, 10.10 AM IST
Ooh, for the sweet lost smell of OO: Scented candles for WFHers that remind us of the pastThe genius of capitalism has people providing the product-service of recreating OO for WFH.
28 Apr, 2021, 08.33 AM IST
'Intangible heritage': Exploring the cultural significance of smellsSmell is not just a sensory perception, it is also a social and cultural phenomenon. Yet, the poor nose has had a rough ride in the western...
23 Apr, 2017, 12.13 AM IST
John Oliver uses the 'f' word in response to Paris attacksOn "Last Week Tonight", John Oliver spoke without restraint to offer "a moment of premium-cable profanity."
17 Nov, 2015, 11.44 AM IST
Upendranath Ashk's 1947 novel now in EnglishThe novel explores in great detail the trials and tribulations of Chetan, a young man from Jalandhar who longs to become a writer but fails...
30 Jun, 2015, 03.41 PM IST
Genes influence how sensitive you areIf you are too sensitive to the emotionally relevant things in the world, it could just be in your genes, a new research has found.
11 May, 2015, 11.37 AM IST
- Master of Memories
Dead souls are supposed to drink from this so as not to remember their past lives upon being reincarnated!
17 Oct, 2014, 05.24 AM IST
From the DepthsUltimately, as French writer Marcel Proust, who was victim of depression himself, said, “Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief wh...
21 Mar, 2014, 04.00 AM IST