One can go from being broken to loving and living again, in the hope that love will find a way back

The collection of essays is a creative blend of objectivity and reflexivity, philosophical reasoning and critical insight

Edited by Farahnaz Ispahani, these essays explore in depressing detail majoritarianism in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Fearing shame and rejection, queers feel trapped as they struggle with the everyday

Located strategically between the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, one could order inexpensive food here and chat for hours across party lines. In the grandeur of the new Parliament building, that meeting ground will be sorely missed.

Chakshu Roy on the 97-year-old building whose corridors and columns stand witness to a vast arc of history – from the time that it was the Council House of British India to when it became Independent India's first Parliament House, from the chaos of argumentative debates that shaped the world's biggest democracy to the consensus marked by loud thumping of desks that shaped many a legislation.

Members of Parliament cutting across parties and states share with The Indian Express their thoughts and memories as the nation transitions to a new Parliament building.

Telling the India story through colour, décor, food, art and place

In this make-believe colour-blind alternate universe, romance might be upfront and central to the scheme of things, but it never loses sight of those other crucial human needs — friendship and loyalty — especially between women

The Kolkata-based designer on how his grandmothers influenced his aesthetics and why his craft is rooted in India

The Indian wild boar is more lightly built than its European counterpart, but it still manages to pack in a punch

Ghalib wrote 'Chirag-e-Dair' in his youth, but his affinity to Banaras lasted a lifetime

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on how to combat conflict and living in the now without glorifying the past

The 64-year-old author's alleged offence was carrying a placard asking for institutional reforms

The perfectly well-mannered white-eyes in the garden seem to have gone berserk. What could be the reason?

On his 175th birth anniversary, remembering the life and legacy of Raja Ravi Varma At Louvre Abu Dhabi, in an exhibition that investigates the origins of Indian cinema, alongside costumes and props from iconic Bollywood movies, are 19th century chromolithographs of Lord Krishna, goddesses Lakshmi and Mohini, painted by Raja Ravi Varma. Gitanjali Maini, managing […]

Mumbai-based Venkatesh on her debut at 71 in the film Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum, working with actor Fahadh Faasil and learning Malayalam.

The media-shy veteran designer on why he has always espoused slow fashion and the necessity of compartmentalising fashion

The celebrated chef on his layered approach to food, the changing concept of fine dining and his most important legacy

Because all our children light up our world

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The unusual literary biography puts the experience of reading at the centre of the acclaimed Hindi writer's life and literature.

The 1996-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre takes into account both its troubled past and its present hunger for change.

Roy's skills lie in her controlled prose, where horror is everywhere, but there is no descent into gore. Instead, by avoiding the spectacle of violence, she keeps the reader's eyes trained on what causes the violence