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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

On Set
Lights, camera, waiting: a day on an outdoor film set

Breakfast
The 200-dosa morning: breakfast rush at a tiffin centre

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