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Why it is impossible to reimagine 'Wuthering Heights' as a movie

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


Daniyal Mueenuddin's new book of stories charts a timeless tradition of cunning and corruption in Pakistan

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


Art or spectacle? Decoding the viewer at the Kochi Muziris Biennale

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


Why Gen Z is choosing fulfillment over authority in the workplace

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


'Cover-Up' on Netflix explores the legacy of fearless reporter Seymour Hersh

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


Remembering Mahasweta Devi, a voice for the marginalized, in her centenary year

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


In Chanakya School's first solo show in India, many hands come together to create each work of art

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


Can't afford expensive art? Buy an artist's book instead

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


Who were the unsung artists behind colonial India's rich botanical paintings?

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


Book Review: Mirza Waheed's new novel tests the limits of a mother's love and faith

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