New Delhi, March 28 -- A few weeks ago, Delhi-based author and leadership coach Aparna Jain had an early morning flight from terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport. Since she'd reached earl... Read More
New Delhi, March 22 -- Ashok Ferrey's latest novel, Hot Butter Cuttlefish, is set in the fictional lakeside village of Kalabola in Sri Lanka during the covid-19 years. The protagonist, Malik, is a rec... Read More
New Delhi, March 15 -- In his now-canonical study, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, first published in 1981 and revised in 1997, Palestinian Am... Read More
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