New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Earlier this month a video of the last rites of a resident of a care home in Haryana went viral. The clip, which showed rituals being conducted around a pyre, was allegedly broad... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Meg Mason is on tenterhooks when we meet on a video call a few weeks ago. Her new novel, Sophie, Standing There (out in India on 27 August), has been several years in the making.... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Sometime in the 1950s, at a lunch with friends in Karachi, where she had moved with her mother from Lucknow after Partition, Urdu writer Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007) snapped at ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- In 2002, the famously reclusive artist Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) enjoyed a resurgence in the public eye after one of his paintings, a triptych titled Celebration (1995), fetched a s... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- In 2009, the year before he died at the age of 91, American writer J.D. Salinger successfully sued Fredrik Colting, one of his ardent fans, who had composed a sequel to Salinger's... Read More
New Delhi, July 30 -- On the afternoon of 25 July, as news of Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation as Union education minister broke on the internet, a profusion of reels and memes celebrating the "victor... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- In 2010, San Francisco-based Sri Bodanapu, now in her 40s, left a decade-long career in tech to go to baking school in Paris. It was a daring move for someone who had grown up in... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- Tabish Khair's new novel derives its title from a statement made by its unnamed narrator to a fellow writer at a literary festival on the island of St Martin in France. On a booz... Read More
New Delhi, July 20 -- One of my favourite genres of social media content features a variation around the following theme: a bully manager and a brazen Gen Z character lock horns over an unfair demand ... Read More
New Delhi, July 19 -- On a recent afternoon in Jacobpura, a nondescript, dusty neighbourhood in Gurugram's Sector 12 sweltering in the summer heat, a stranger walks into the crammed front office of th... Read More