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
New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- Amitav Ghosh's new novel, Ghost-Eye, takes ahead the story he had started telling in The Hungry Tide (2004), set in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal's Gangetic delta region, threat... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- I don't know about you but I am taking Winnie the Pooh, the beloved teddy bear from British writer A.A. Milne's stories, as my role model into the new year. Let me give you my to... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- If you are a parent wondering about how to reduce your child's screen time in the new year, you are not alone. Two judges of the Madurai bench of the Madras high court recently ur... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- In more senses than one, 2025 became the year when workplaces across the world had the rudest awakening since the shake-up by the covid-19 pandemic five years ago. To begin with... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 28 -- In 1935, Halide Edib, who had fought alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk for the emancipation of Turkey from the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, visited India to deliver a series of lec... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- It's that time of year again when, as a book critic, I'm expected to compile a list of my favourite reads of 2025. My colleagues and I have done such a roundup, but even as I was... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- Last week, Supriya Sule, member of Parliament from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), introduced a private members' bill in the Lok Sabha which ignited a heated discussion onl... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- At the end of her charming novel Rukmini Aunty and the R.K. Narayan Fan Club, Sita Bhaskar quotes the Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith's admiration for the much-loved creat... Read More