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Gowri S

Gowri S

Gowri S is a principal correspondent with HT’s Sunday longform features section, HT Wknd. With eight years of experience in feature journalism, she covers culture, the arts, environment, climate crisis, technology and history with a focus on India and the world. On an off day, find her nose-deep in a new playlist, or between deadlift sets.

Articles by Gowri S

Can you name a single woman Renaissance master?

The bias in art history has marginalized women's contributions, leading to forgotten works.

Updated on Aug 29, 2026 09:50 IST

The ‘other’ masters: Women from the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art

Judith Leyster’s Self-Portrait; 1630. (National Gallery of Art, UK)

Updated on Aug 29, 2026 07:19 IST

Renaissance masters, abstract pioneers: Women the art world ‘forgot’

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes; 1614-20. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Aug 29, 2026 09:48 IST

All well?: A new book explores how illness has shaped our world

One of the things that startled Bauer, she says, was how people, even in Ancient Rome, reacted with outrage to government strictures during epidemics. Doctors were attacked, and pandemic facilities were accused of being slaughterhouses of the poor. Above, The Plague Hospital (1808-1810) by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Aug 28, 2026 13:06 IST

Drawings, notes, hopes and dreams: Inside a rare museum of children’s notebooks

Tales of war and winter, boredom and scarcity.... an entire parallel history of a kind sits in the 2,500 documents preserved at the Milan museum. (Museum of Children’s Books)

Updated on Aug 8, 2026 09:17 IST

Space race: What will the buildings of the future look like?

The façade of the Shanghai Grand Opera House in China forms a massive stepped space that can be climbed from the outside, and will serve as a free, 24-hour public park. (Snohetta)

Updated on Aug 1, 2026 10:56 IST

The history of maybe: How far back does probability theory go?

(HT Imaging via ChatGPT)

Updated on Jul 18, 2026 12:37 IST

Re-rooting...: Meet the man saving trees by the thousands, with a simple formula

Peddireddi and his Vata Foundation operate mainly in Telangana and Maharashtra. The thing about translocation is it takes time, he says. ‘It takes about 21 days: trim branches, isolate roots, allow fresh leaves and roots to sprout. Then move the tree.’

Updated on Jul 11, 2026 08:52 IST

Insight out: What goes on in the brain, during an aha moment?

The eyes grow wide, the jaw drops. Some, like Archimedes, shout out version of ‘Eureka!’ Kiki from the Studio Ghibli film Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) has that universal ‘I’ve got it!’ expression.

Updated on Jul 4, 2026 11:26 IST

Feels like home: How ‘digital twins’ are helping plan the future of our cities

Singapore was the first country to deploy such a system on a nationwide scale.

Updated on Jun 26, 2026 14:34 IST

‘The wildlife will return. We need to develop the will to let it’

‘From his letters to his sister Maggie, it seems like he was aware of the impact people were having on wildlife from before World War 1,’ Douglas says.

Updated on Jun 19, 2026 11:32 IST

Reel of fortune: Fishermen turn content creators, capturing life at sea

An octopus spotted in the deep seas off Tuticorin, in a still from the video posted by Thoothukudi Meenavan.

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 09:32 IST

The odd squad: On World Environment Day, meet the strangest species around us

Leaf sheep can steal chloroplasts from algae, which it then uses to turn sunlight into energy, whenever algae itself becomes scarce. (WIKIMEDIA)

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:07 IST

To Die For: Excerpted recipes from an unusual new cookbook

The grave of Annabelle Gunderson, who ran a local car dealership with her husband in Northern California, immortalises the snickerdoodles she made for firefighters in wildfire season, to help keep them going. (James Jelin / To Die For)

Updated on May 30, 2026 09:32 IST

Rolls, roasts, cookies: A new book collects recipes left on gravestones

Cindy Clark-Newby’s recipe for no-bake cookies.

Updated on May 30, 2026 09:39 IST

Root awakening: Hysteria, gypped and other terms with troubling origins

“Once you start seeing the stories behind the words, you want to keep pulling at the threads,” says Karen Stollznow, author of On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present (2020) and Bitch: The Journey of a Word (2024). (HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on May 15, 2026 18:06 IST

No-holds bard: Poems about trauma by women from across South Asia

The 19th-century Mughal watercolour that inspired Tishani Doshi’s poem, Tiger Woman. (Wikimedia)

Updated on May 9, 2026 10:23 IST

First-word problems: What did the earliest writers write about?

One of Kushim’s clay tablets, tracking cereals and beer, dated to 5,300 years ago. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 11:55 IST

Picture perfect: See more posters from Zubaan’s feminist archive

This poster bears no words, just a heartfelt wish. It shows a woman reclining in a sari, her feet up on a stool, a book in her hands and a cathode-ray TV on its stand in front of her. A cup of tea sits at her side, and she wears a carefree smile. (Courtesy Poster Women)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 09:01 IST

Word on the street: Trace the story of India’s feminist movement through posters

Two women dance like no one’s watching. The slogan reads: “There are no paths… paths are made by walking.” (Above right) A many-armed woman struggles under the weight of unshared labour. (Zubaan Archives)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 06:30 IST

Ctrl-Alt-Deceit: Anja Shortland discusses major crimes, ransomware and you

(Photo: Urszula Soltys)

Updated on Apr 4, 2026 06:49 IST

Right on track: Around the world in fascinating metro stations

Levels crafted in glass and steel are linked by footbridges, balconies and escalators at Paris’s Villejuif-Gustave Roussy. Above it all, a 230-ft-wide cylindrical shaft covered in glass directs light all the way down. Designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture, the subway stop opened last year. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 12:10 IST

Metro morphosis: Is the subway station the new frontier of architecture?

At Paris’s Villejuif-Gustave Roussy, a 230-ft-wide cylindrical shaft topped with glass directs sunlight all the way down. (Dominique Perrault Architects)

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 12:09 IST

One in a melon: A plant breeder’s 48-year love affair with gourds

At the World Vegetable Center in Thailand. The cucurbit group of vegetables holds the key to a good life, Dhillon says.

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 11:08 IST

Lovely, dark and deep: The lessons ancient trees can teach us

Pedunculate oaks are over 1,000 years old and have deep root systems that keep them wind-firm. (Blaze Cyan / In the Circle of Ancient Trees)

Updated on Feb 28, 2026 09:24 IST

The woods are lovely... and we now know more about why

A sketch of the Qilian juniper growing in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. The ancient tree, over 2,000 years old, is a symbol of undying love and resilience in local folk tales and songs. (Blaze Cyan / In the Circle of Ancient Trees)

Updated on Feb 28, 2026 09:22 IST

In photos: Iconic cats in art and popular culture

A still from the Oscar-winning animated film Flow (2024), about a cat in a post-apocalyptic world.

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 09:00 IST

Brave mew world: Be the cat, in videogames

Night in the Woods, in which a young cat returns to a dying American town after dropping out of college, won the British Game Academy award for best narrative game in 2018.

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 13:54 IST

Long time no sea: Tamil Nadu is rescuing its drowning islands

Frames of seagrass are planted on the seabed around the island of Kariyachalli, to stem erosion and help it retain landmass. (Photo: Tamil Nadu Forest Department)

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 11:14 IST

Clone rangers: Meet the two Indians behind the world’s first self-cloning rice

Venkatesan Sundaresan and Imtiyaz Khanday. (Jael Mackendore/ UC Davis)

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 14:31 IST

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