New Delhi, March 8 -- I am a sucker for movie adaptations of literary texts. So, despite the deluge of bad press, I simply had to watch Emerald Fennell's recent remake of Wuthering Heights. Let's say,... Read More
New Delhi, March 8 -- In an interview to The New Yorker last year, Daniyal Mueenuddin described his story, The Golden Boy, as a piece that is "embedded in a much larger history". "Like a peripheral sc... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- At the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26 last weekend, a group of young people stepped out of the late Vivan Sundaram's darkly autobiographical exhibit, Six Stations of a Life Pursu... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Recently, a close family member, who is a marketing professional in her late 20s, came to me for some career advice. At her current job, which she joined around two years ago, sh... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- In one of the early scenes in Cover-Up, a documentary on Seymour M. Hersh's life and work, the iconic investigative journalist looks straight at the camera, or rather at the film... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- In July 2016, the government of Jharkhand issued an order to remove manacles from all statues of the tribal leader Birsa Munda (1875-1900), starting with the one that stands on B... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- In the middle of a room at Experimenter gallery in Kolkata's Ballygunge Place stands a large sculptural installation called Dwelling (2025). Made of three human-sized structures,... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- If you want to buy a work by an artist like Bharti Kher, Marina Abramović or Sebastião Salgado, you will be looking to spend at least several thousand dollars. And that'... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 25 -- "These are palimpsests that combine art and science," says taxonomist, curator and botanical historian Henry J. Noltie by way of explaining the paintings we are looking at. Creat... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- Mirza Waheed's new novel, Maryam & Son, tells the story of Maryam Ali, a 46-year-old school chef of British Indian origin living in East London, and her search for her son, Dilaw... Read More