The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar is a hub of new research and four 41-ft high stone pillars at the entrance of its new campus link this present with its storied past.
With the redesign of the Central Vista in the national capital imminent, tracing India’s socialist, democratic fabric through its public architecture.
For 40 years, Chopra had in his care a photograph album dating to World War II. It belonged to Japanese soldier Hideo Shikata.
Before the plum cake, the culinary centrepiece of Goan celebration was the humbler bolo de batica.
Why are students being beaten, when they should be talked to? A shaken WhatsApp Uncle asks
Conceding our acts of being human to the facts of being digital
How to fix a broken world: Greta Thunberg has certainly led the way with her unusual protest, but this is a year which has seen the youth come forward to fight the good fight across the world
Body and Soul: These protrusions, which become more pronounced every time I sit, were proofs of my unchecked greed, unrestrained indulgence and crushing loneliness.
When your little one takes you to dark places, what do you tell her?
‘Any extreme is difficult’: Titled 'Walking Through Soul City', and on till February 12, the retrospective is curated by Nancy Adajania and supported by The Guild Art Gallery.
Inhale, Exhale: Orner’s documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, currently streaming on Netflix, made over a period of three years, combines archival footage, interviews of Choudhury’s students and practitioners of the form.
How do readers travel the world? Do they go to new places, looking to retrace the adventures of their favourite literary characters? Are their perceptions of those places shaped by their reading? From tracing Goethe’s footsteps in Rome to seeking Octavio Paz in Mexico City, this issue looks at literary journeys and how they fuel our wanderlust. First up, Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco, which, like a declaration of love, allows you to reinvent yourself, no justifications needed
In an unusually warm Scotland spring, an unexpected encounter with the eternal summer of a Wodehouse book
The greatest gift of a literary journey is that it fills you with yearning to find your own passage.
In Octavio Paz’s Mexico City, the past, even if it is in ruins, has not disappeared, but flowed into the present.
Joyce’s Ulysses begins in the charming town of Dun Laoghaire. Do not go looking for the snot-green sea.
Like the history of the land, like Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, learning to let go in Hanoi.
A writer, reader and tourist in Goethe’s Italy
Making memories in Ruskin Bond’s Mussoorie
A journey from Bengaluru to Chikmagalur unfolds as a trip through Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar, an iconic story by Poornachandra Tejaswi and a history of the Indian Coffee House workers’ movement.
Leaving and loving Indira Goswami’s Delhi
From the Stockholm of the Millennium Trilogy to peaceful villages that inspire the darkest fictional crimes — the Nordic noir tour is a must for those hooked to Scandinavian crime fiction.
San Francisco’s captivating charm lay in those picture-postcard views. But its magnetic allure lay in its attitude.
In his films, Amol Palekar was the common man with middle-class aspirations. As he returns to the stage after over two decades, a look at how he carved a niche for himself in an industry in churn
In his films, the actor was more the common man with middle-class aspirations than the guy who felled 20 baddies with one blow.

