Urvashi Kaur and her eponymous brand bring together a layered sense of community histories and indigenous practices

Food scholars discuss how such definitions evolved in the cauldron of India's history, stirred by ladles of religious beliefs

Sinha raises a fundamental question of public policy: should Amrit Kaal India grow by a GDP number, the “5 trillion dollar economy”, or by the well-being of her people by investing in education, health, skills and basic amenities?

Raza's exhibition presents the modernist's works from his student days to one of his last canvases -- with his celebrated bindu at its centre

Be it the peacock, the magpie robin, or even the polar bear – they all have to pass the endurance test of their lady loves

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on what lies at the core of his work, skills that India should hold on to and his advice to young architects

The great outdoors in our cities have become a dangerous place to be in: it’s now a gas chamber

Through two professors and a young boy, the contradictions of campus politics are thrown into funny relief

Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life is about a 20-year-old who, after a brutal accident, turns to asceticism and worship to figure out why he must continue living

If you look into the eyes of a crow, you will feel an immediate connection being made — the human species is an equally dangerous nuisance

From wrestling hermit crabs to bronze chrysanthemum anemones – tide pools make for great discoveries

These "retellings of mythic and folk tales, sketches of personalities" use Karnataka’s iconography to highlight its many forgotten histories

In Mourning, Indurkar explores who's mad — Is the man who has gone silent on the world but perhaps is in conversation with those who matter to him mad or is the one who chooses to continue with the daily chores of life as if nothing has changed, mad?

In Confessions in Swahili, an African grey parrot enjoys screaming insults at other birds, but this time picks up a unique love language

Declarations of love are not just for Valentine’s Day. From WhatsApp chats to notes on the fridge, from hurried phone calls to long emails, love letters are part of our everyday lives, everywhere

A Delhi exhibition questions the role of public memory as it deconstructs remnants of buildings that once stood as symbols of innovation and independence

Filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar on discovering legendary Norwegian actor Liv Ullmann and his documentary on her which premiered at Cannes and will release in the US in April

Ants are problem solvers, figuring out things even before the problem manifests itself

The book is uncompromising on research, academically profound and written in a way that anyone with an interest in law and judiciary can glean information

Littered with interesting anecdotes and personal experiences, the book tracks stars from the current generation to yesteryears

From grinning white-throated kingfishers to blue-tailed bee-eaters who are a lesson in beak-eye coordination to watching drongos compete with paradise flycatchers, the lake offers serenity and calmness in spades

How a 25-seater boat ride amid the mangroves beyond Old Goa stays true to its claim

The writer on his new Kerala-based colonial-era epic The Covenant of Water, why long books are difficult to publish, and the underappreciated role of editors

From political novels to bildungsromans to new talent, here's the fiction that stood out in 2023