How ghee lamps cleaned the air, millets made us lighter, and the atta-gud-ghee synthesis became a potent carrier of memories
It’s a time when we pause to appreciate the world at large and when we see everything we wish to cherish and preserve for ourselves and those who come after us
Chefs Ranveer Brar and Manish Mehrotra and food writer Saee Koranne-Khandekar share their favourite Diwali recipes
Patel, who passed away last week, was never a flashy collector of identities. He polished, crafted and worked only when he was seized by ‘inner necessity’
Charles Darwin discovered finches in Galapagos, Jane Goodall fell in love with chimpanzees and Salim Ali became the 'birdman' of India
The novel won the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction this year and it is also on the shortlist of JCB Prize for Literature. It is easy to see why. It creates a world that is hard to resist, populated with characters whose insecurities and flaws, joys and triumphs, the reader can easily identify with
As a retrospective of his sculptures is held in the Capital, A Ramachandran, 88, talks about his days at Santiniketan, finding images in the words of Dostoevsky and why his canvas changed from the dark to the lyrical
The documentary traces how the Pakistani Armed Forces, under the command of the then-President General Yahya Khan, initiated Operation Searchlight in March 1971, a campaign of torture killings and rape to erase Bengali resistance.
The group 'Trespassers' is using Indian streets as their gallery to show how art is for everyone
Set against demonetisation, the novel is the writer's "experiment with the Indian political truth”
Is Chandler's irony and satire a coping mechanism for India's Gen Z audience? A look at how Matthew Perry's sense of humour left behind a legacy of rehabilitation and hope
The book has explanations on how different ecosystems work, how everything in nature is connected and how the circle of life goes on
Every day I remind myself of my childhood fears so that I can be gracious with those who are also defenseless
Set in the '90s, British-Bangladeshi director Leesa Gazi's debut feature A House Named Shahana traces the life of a small-town woman who opts for a divorce, higher studies and lives life on her own terms.
Sri Lankan writer-director Prasanna Vithanage shares insight into challenges of making films in his home country and why he is lucky to have Indian collaborators.
National School of Drama’s new director Chittaranjan Tripathy on his most challenging role and using humour as a tool for life.
Debutant writer-director Anand Ekarshi on the making of his Malayalam film Aattam, working with theatre actors and seeking audience participation.
Though culture and languages differ in different countries, one thing remains the same – spaces that are home to books
While the Ladakh Marathon is not for the faint-hearted, it also is a holistic and culturally enriching experience for runners
They may sense an electrical field, sniff out odours better and pin down the faintest rustle several meters away – their sensorial toolkit is way sharper than ours
In the changing landscape of central Delhi lie stories of previous regimes shaping the meaning of the Capital and capturing the imagination of a people
After a career spanning two decades, actor Mona Singh is enjoying the phase of playing meaty and nuanced roles in web shows.
Couturier Rahul Mishra on his French connection, finding hidden textile histories and reliving the Van Gogh experience
Even the brains of the biggest bats cannot be very large, but their computing power is truly stupendous as they home in on their targets with more precision than a heat-seeking laser-guided missile
By choosing to take up roles dominated by men, dhaakis Rita Saha and Anjali Das, and Nandini Bhowmik as a priest, challenge long-held gender and casteist norms


