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TOI Plus News: On a drowsy afternoon in Babarpur village in Panipat, around 90 km north of Delhi, dogs sprawl across the road and vegetable fields stretch into the d.

The intricate braid on a Kolhapuri chappal’s upper strap is called the ‘veni’. The toe-loop is the ‘angtha’.

James Prichard Fifty years after her death, Agatha Christie is still outselling almost every other crime writer.

The gym was supposed to be neutral territory where people arrived in all shapes and sizes to sweat through their weights and workouts. Nobody cared what you were called or who you prayed to.

Sneha Bhura and Himanshi Dhawan Term gains traction after a string of police cases and online campaigns, prompting concerns over profiling

Before Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, there was Botticelli. The older pioneer of the Italian Renaissance, celebrated painter Sandro Botticelli, was known to repeatedly return to the figure of Madonna and Child, making it his most enduring artistic subject.

This summer, as temperatures across India shattered records, some outdoor workers found an unusual safety net: insurance that paid out automatically when the heat became unbearable.Nirmala Parmar spent hers on lemons. By the next afternoon, they were floating in a steel pot of nimbu paani in her Ahmedabad home.

Sneha Bhura / TNN / Jul 04, 2026, 23:23 IST

1. Congratulations on winning the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

It’s a Monday evening in Delhi. You step out for a quick walk to the gym.