Diyas basking in the October sun, a T-Rex shaped rangoli and recalling recipes from the past. The many ways to celebrate, hope and heal

Dragonflies spend 90 per cent of their lives as ‘nymphs’, living at the bottom of murky ponds and looking like ghouls that terrify small fish and tadpoles

Amrita Shah’s moving biography of her great-grandfather, Mohanlal Killavala, explores silences, erasure, and memory across the Indian Ocean

Often overlooked in our quest for superfoods, the fibre is having a moment. Nutritionists and chefs are designing diets rich in this nutrient that can protect your gut, heart and brain

From the salt pans of Pernem and the ecology of the Western Ghats to sand bubbler crabs, there's more to Goa than beach parties and resorts

At the core of the book is Macfarlane’s contention that if a river is alive, laws, politics and, most significantly, our perceptions, must change

From sparrows and mynas to bulbuls, babblers and parakeets – they can set up one hell of a racket as they discuss the day’s business

Poet Muztar Khairabadi may not be a household name but in an age of noise and neglect, his works remind us that presence matters more than praise

The Mumbai-based architect talks about why he chose bamboo to design the airport in Guwahati, what advocacy means for Indian architects and how working with water can transform Mumbai

We are being told fossil fuels are good and that climate change was just the result of an overheated imagination

In the painted snipe, a water bird, the lady sports snazzy white straps and kathakali dancer-like face make-up. Her husband looks similar but as though he’s been given a good rubbing down with a pencil eraser

‘Both of us took time to decide on a lookbook because we wanted womenswear to feel distinct, not an extension of what we already do,’ say designers

Forest approach to parenting is about celebrating diversity so that each child is accepted as they are and not hothoused for perfection and performance

When Bal Gangadhar Tilak transformed Ganesh Chaturthi into a public festival, it was not to divide but to unite — to give people a shared purpose, to teach a city to breathe in chorus.

One of India’s foremost modernists, Mehta painted the silence and anguish of the human soul

Performance art is having its ‘golden moment’ in India and beyond, with an emerging dynamic collector base

The Kash-Gul show, from Rohit Bal Design, at the Couture Week, was proof that a brand, when built with soul, does not die with the master. It evolves, it flourishes

The designer, who was trained at Diesel, Italy, is now into R&D and is on the cusp of creating India's own denim brand

Unlike the past when either Indians left as indentured labourers or as skilled professionals, it is the wealthy who are now fleeing the country

India, the oldest continuing civilisation, now the largest democracy in the world, is not great because she is perfect, but because she keeps working at her promise

The novel is a revised version of The Secret History of Compassion, which was published in 2019

Sohn refuses to romanticise rebellion. Her characters are not waiting for a spark that will topple the system, they are learning to live in its shade

Independence is not an inheritance. It is not static. It is daily. It demands care. And care requires clarity. If we are to rise, it cannot be by repeating slogans but by embodying their spirit

Freedom, when it arrived, wasn’t a firecracker burst. It was a slow, noisy, moving, dancing, grieving, singing thing