Sanghamitra Chakraborty’s Soumitra Chatterjee and His World starts with his birth in a north Calcutta home to a mother who is obsessed with Rabindranath Tagore, which influences Chatterjee’s interest in Tagore and Bengali literature. As he wrote, “My own heart and mind, in some way, have also been shaped by him.”

Haider, a hero to many, was a friend and mentor to many writers and expatriates in Germany — including Banerjee. His work and hospitality spawned friendships around the world

An invitation to young men to stand up for gender justice at a time when toxic masculinity is gaining ground online

Sam Aaj, a production on queer love by Jainil Mehta, is about what it means to be understood in a world that wants us to perform

"Even during my early days in Peru, I was drawn to Mario. His charisma, striking good looks and powerful influence on public discourse made him a figure of immense presence. I was eager to meet him and reached out for an appointment," writes retired diplomat Savitri Kunadi

I hope the world was listening—listening when India, in its presidency of the G20, chose an ancient Vedantic principle to light the way forward. “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.” One Earth. One Family. One Future.

In mainstream Indian literature, Muslim women are often flattened into metaphors — silent sufferers or tropes in someone else’s moral argument. Mushtaq refuses both. Her characters endure, negotiate, and occasionally push back — not in ways that claim headlines, but in ways that matter to their lives

The loud and fast bird is stopping by North India on the way to Eastern Europe during its annual winter migration

The ubiquitous buttermilk and seasonal juices with their many names, flavours and memories mean the same thing in every Indian language — dripping coolness and lip-smacking fullness

They are in your DNA — in the way your voice cracks when you tell a story, in the recipe you never need to write down, in the song that stops time

The 58-year-old Shriramkumar, in a career spanning over four decades and various aesthetics, has not only accompanied MS Subbulakshmi and TM Krishna but also represents a musical thought that goes beyond ideology and politics

While it head-butted his theory of natural selection, Darwin emerged with the theory of sexual selection as a way to emphasise that, perhaps, females kept their eyes on beauty in selecting their mates

In the state's Jat-Sikh-dominated society, Valmikis and Chamars rarely found representation. Deras occupied this vacuum. They offered the marginalised shelter, spatiality to counter the caste hegemony and legends of Ambedkar and Ravidas.

People speak of love as a high. But love is also a low, a longing, a lament. It is a mirror, a maze, a melody. It is the most human thing we do. And I am so grateful to be human.

Gokhale binds these stories together with the glue of women’s collective experiences. Women from all walks of life populate these tales — those who take lovers, widows, divorcees, good Indian wives, women battling cancer, depressed women, privileged women, women marked by sexual abuse and loneliness

Shourie does what he has so often done in the past: read original sources deeply and thoroughly to make a compelling case for the prosecution. Savarkar does not escape the full force of Shourie’s forensic wrath. He uses Savarkar’s own words to indict the man

From the blue-whistling thrush to the mellifluous red-whiskered bulbul and the ear-piercing calls of the peacock, nature has its way of bringing in the day

A child’s soul belongs to tomorrow and if we are careless with our words, then what foundation are we laying?

What if binoculars come out as you go into the bathroom to brush your teeth and take a shower or a pride of lionesses peeks at you as you start your day?

Everywhere you go in Georgia, you will find khinkali, a plus-sized dumpling, that will remind you both of momo and modak

Love—that most tender of human experiences—has been placed under siege. This is not the India I know. This is not the India I want to recognise.

The volume is an ambitious effort to bring together work by India's best writers across centuries, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Vimla Devi and Ismat Chughtai

The book’s language reflects the inclusivity of its time: 'The personal and impersonal are, in Sunetra’s writing, conjoined like Siamese twins; to leave one out would be to lose the other'

Ankush Bahuguna on challenging stereotypes, how make-up helped embrace his authentic self and brought him closer to his mother