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Match Night
Big-match night: how the city gets its stadium ready
Forty thousand seats, six hundred staff, one afternoon. The choreography behind the floodlights, from pitch covers to the samosa count.
Food Fight
Biryani wars: every city thinks it owns the pot
Monsoon Watch
Monsoon watch: the streets that flood first and why
Showtime
The single-screen that refuses to go dark
Exam Season
Outside the exam hall: last-minute revision rituals
The Corner
The chai stall index: how one corner reads the city
Academy
Net session diaries: the 5 am batch
Transport
The metro's last-mile problem, measured station by station
Breakfast
The 200-dosa morning: breakfast rush at a tiffin centre
On Set
Lights, camera, waiting: a day on an outdoor film set
Riverfront
River cities rethink their oldest ghats
Small Business
Handloom clusters find younger buyers online
Live
The midnight mehfil is back
Food
The perfect thali, according to five home cooks
Retail
The kirana strikes back: what the corner shop does better
FITNESS
Your first 5K: a run plan for people who don't run
League
Kabaddi under lights: league night draws a full gallery
Night Shift
After 10 pm, the city eats standing up
Theatre
Rehearsing rage: backstage at the weekend's big play
IN PICTURES
In pictures: six frames from the morning wholesale market
Ground Report
The 4 am economics of the sabzi mandi
Stage
Ten years of riyaz: what a classical debut really takes
Ground Report
Platform stories: an hour at the junction
Ground Report