Amrita Dutta

The poet was arrested Tuesday under Sections 504 and 505(2) of the IPC for the poem that he had read out at the Anegundi district festival, in Koppal district’s Gangavati taluk on January 9.

An empathetic novel about the feminine experience in a world of inequality.

In 1947, a line ran through Sylhet, Assam, dividing families and creating new citizens. The burden of that history is still with us.

In the three decades since the publication of The Trotter-Nama, Irwin Allan Sealy has turned his back on the West, the distractions of celebrity and forged a dazzling, homegrown tradition of writing

A dispute over a proposed Jesus statue in a Karnataka village has Hindus rallying around their Christian neighbours. “Why listen to outsiders,” they ask

Nearly 300-400 students turned up to protest, according to participants.

An unsentimental, evocative study of a killer and the crime that tears his life asunder.

“The name Mohammad can be spelt in many ways. Then there are elderly people, whose dates of birth vary from document to document, simply because they were born at home, and no one kept exact records,” said Maqsood.

The Karnataka High Court, while hearing the bail plea, has repeatedly raised the question of how and where alleged illegal immigrants should be housed before they are repatriated.

Science can help document a landscape, but actual conservation is possible only by communicating with local communities. A new book of essays reflects naturalist TR Shankar Raman’s experience.

Around 200 people were arrested on the India-Bangladesh border earlier this month, while trying to cross over from India. Reports in Bangladesh’s newspapers suggest they were fleeing “harassment” in Bengaluru.

A decade after the Sri Lankan civil war, a former UN worker revisits the lives of those he left behind on the island through a graphic novel

As ‘illegal’ immigrants leave Bengaluru amidst a government crackdown, Thubarahalli, a colony of Bengali-speaking migrants in the city, has also drawn the line — “That is where the Bangladeshis live. Go harass them”

Meet the tribe of Indians trying to live plastic-free and sustainably

Margaret Atwood’s latest reveals the insidious armature of Gilead — an oppressive political order we are uncomfortably familiar with

A children’s book that talks about caste, and inspires you to be a climate champ

Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary: ‘If savarnas need to change to liberate India from caste, then Gandhi is necessary’

Two years after the killing of Gauri Lankesh, sister Kavitha looks back at an intertwined life.

Nagarkar first novel, Saat Sakkam Trechalis, was written in Marathi in 1974; its urban, male angst could be traced to predecessors such as Bhalchandra Nemade’s Kosala (1963) but there was no mistaking this striking, new voice.