Is it a ‘naagin’? Is it a being possessed? No, it is the north Indian male doing his best ‘shaadi’ dance.
When you are a woman dealing with infertility, your privacy is the first luxury to go. Privacy is right to be treated with sensitivity. But when you’re infertile, it’s a luxury you should never expect.
Like Inspector Montalbano, the solitary eater will endorse that a table for one is often a deeply satisfying affair. In popular and academic literature, meals are about love, bonhomie, gifting, making friends, cementing social relationships.
This week, books by Indian writers on how to live it up during the summer holidays.
Jaideep Ahlawat on his critically acclaimed performance in Raazi, and how he’s trying to look beyond the greyscale for his characters.
Richa Kaul Padte on her new book on porn, women and women watching porn.
Talking about perspective and how different views of the same thing can shape personal narratives, Photographer Gauri Gill says, “The truth reveals itself differently to each of us.
Agra’s petha industry nurtures a love-hate relationship with the Taj Mahal.
Can the wild and its big game do without the tiny tots?
Laxmi Misthan Bhandar in Jaipur claims to be as old as the Pink City.
No matter who decides to adopt it, the Red Fort needs to be restored — to the people. Subsequent acts over the past decades in the name of conservation have reduced the historic value of the fort.
Towering over Dubai’s landscape is its tallest building, Burj Khalifa, with 200 floors (with two observation decks on the 125th and 148th floors). Looking down from 555 m above the ground, the vast ocean seems to meet the desert down below.
Our last stop is Beagle Bay, home of the Nyul Nyul indigenous people. Apart from a flock of cacophonic cockatoos, the town is deserted. Perhaps, everyone is indoors to escape the harsh, tropical sun. The Sacred Heart Church stands tall next to the local school.
Almost every traditional religion there teaches empathy and tolerance. Among others, I could see the influence of Shinto, the religion originating in the land, a belief that focusses on the way of kami (mystical or divine spirits). The believers respect every living and non-living being.
Anuradha Roy on her new novel, the perils of nationalism and what sustains her at a time of toxic change.
Delhi’s National Cooperative Development Corporation stands out for its impressive geometry.
An Indian-origin musician is taking American jazz on an intriguing journey.
Here's how Vivian Fernandes aka DIVINE inspired Zoya Akhtar to make a film on Mumbai’s hip-hop scene.
From waste-picking to getting cast in films by FTII students, Parubai's story is extremely inspiring.
The colours and fragrances of our fiercest season.
Beti Meghan is PCs friend... and so she went.... thats all ok.... but why did she wear a CHRISTIAN DRESS!!!... she could have worn beautiful ghagra by manish or even saari by sabya....
Sanskrit scholar Sheldon Pollock, 70, who was in India recently, speaks on the relevance of Sanskrit in India today, dealing with hate and why he has never approached language through the prism of religion.
Like the work of many of her contemporaries, including Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, Alex Marwood and Tana French, at the heart of Clare Mackintosh’s psychological thrillers is the family and the grey zone of domestic lives.
While unmindful constructions dot the town’s periphery, the untouched old ramparts, empty and melancholic, still tell a tale of the past.
Though I had lived in Delhi before, I never had to visit Chhattarpur. Young migrant students who tried to save Rs 20 by walking from Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station to Kamla Nagar in the scorching Delhi summer to have a plate of Maggi anda-nimboo pani at the campus dhaba later.

