The author and musician on his latest music album, Seventeen, which travels back in time

The Nigerian writer returned to fiction after a gap of nearly 50 years

Filmmaker Craig Foster has shown that one doesn't need half of Africa to make a grand nature film, a camera, a local patch/garden/forest, lots of curiosity, observation and patience are good enough

The anything-goes ethos has dogged Ukraine for years, and now the government is hoping to bury it, with an assist from cryptocurrency.

Paro Anand shares a story of her experience while setting up libraries in remote villages in Rajasthan, where children wrote their secrets in stories

Venita Coelho’s poem made pirates and fishermen of us all

A poem by Richa Jha on where the magic begins

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar tells us the story of Tuyu, the fox, who ate everything that stood in its way – an egg, a bent old woman, a termite hill, and an egret

Arefa Tehsin tells us about the one thing that will never change and the one thing we can never get rid of

Pranay Lal talks about how mucus may look repulsive but it can cleanse, moisten, protect and maintain peace, all at once. See what mucus can do, and how you can make artificial mucus, too

As we mark Hore’s centenary, here’s a look at how his life and work testified to his intense understanding of history without, and the irreparable ruptures within

While the idea of a sacred thread did exist and so did the practise of adorning the bride with jewellery, the ritualistic aspect of a mangal sutra along with the many class, caste and community

Writer Amitava Kumar on how a painting became a canvas for reflection on inequality and lack of social justice; how when we slow down news and engage with its horrors can we square up to

Those who have lived every minute, who have taken the good, the bad and the ugly all in their stride, who have not allowed one moment to defeat them, but are the sum of the

Udham Singh, a witness to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, was so horrified by the atrocities of British rule that he dedicated his life to bringing independence to India

Ironically, the Indian government was initially proud of the Tatas and the way they were running Air India. It was the only shining jewel India had when the British left in 1947.

From the Mahatma's trust in Lord Mountbatten's intent to his frustration with MA Jinnah's obduracy, the Rashtrapati Bhavan archives offer new perspectives on the cataclysmic events that led up to the Partition

If Sanket Pethkar’s earthy hues sparkle Mamta Nainy’s South Asian references in one, Nomoco’s bright colours light up Welsh spoken-word poet Tomos Roberts’ — whose The Great Realisation went viral last year — cheerful, uplifting

In narrating his father’s — theatre doyen Ebrahim Alkazi’s — life story, the noted theatre director also narrates the history of Bombay-Delhi-Indian theatre, in that order of its evolution

Moments of war and peace in my garden, and why I had to take down the scarecrow

‘Harsh Realities’ tells the story of how Harsh Mariwala negotiated odds to build a successful commercial empire boasting of brands such as Parachute and Saffola

On the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Centre attacks, we pick five stories — documentaries, TV series, films — good and bad, to revisit the fateful day

Before the Talibans took control of Afghanistan this month, once there was a Kabul that was a city of dreamers and poets, kite flyers and children trudging to school.

Pakistan's approach to integrating the princely states, in contrast to that of India, is cited as the reason why the military there has ended up carrying an unusual amount of authority

Both the smallpox and polio vaccine campaigns provide important insights into the challenges, failures and achievements of large-scale immunisation programmes in the country