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How revelry, grief and care come together in the 'Amsterdam of Tamil Nadu' every year

New Delhi, May 9 -- In 2018, photographer and documentary filmmaker Shino Cherian decided, on an impulse, to attend the Koovagam festival in Tamil Nadu, which spans 18 days of the month of Chithirai (... Read More


Soumya Sankar Bose's new work reflects on memories and moments from the end of life

New Delhi, May 3 -- Soumya Sankar Bose's new show We Need to Talk In Whispers at Experimenter, Ballygunge, in Kolkata is inspired by a journal he found on an overnight train journey from Howrah to Kor... Read More


Four angry young women of Bengal speak out in Kabita Singha's debut novel

New Delhi, May 3 -- Four angry women, in Bengali writer Kabita Singha's eponymous novel, decide to go "out flying for a whole day" one winter in Calcutta (now Kolkata), most likely in the 1950s. Suman... Read More


How J.G. Ballard's terrifying, prophetic vision of overheating cities and climate change is coming true

New Delhi, May 3 -- On 27 April, when weather-monitoring platform AQI reported that 97 of the world's hottest cities are in India, it felt like a ringing validation of the way I have been feeling sinc... Read More


Author Shelby Van Pelt speaks about her 'octopus book' and forthcoming Netflix movie, 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'

New Delhi, May 1 -- In 2013, Shelby Van Pelt, a former financial consultant, took a writing class at Emory University, Atlanta , where one of her assignments involved composing a story from an unusual... Read More


'AI is actually more aligned with the builder mentality that has always existed in India': Aneesh Raman of LinkedIn

New Delhi, April 27 -- Early on in their new book, Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI, authors Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman, EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office and chief economic opp... Read More


Is India's English-language publishing failing its readers?

New Delhi, April 25 -- If you are looking for easy rage-bait on social media, look no further than the English-language publishing ecosystem in India. Writers, publishers, festival regulars, and a rag... Read More


Sunder Nursery: How Delhi's forgotten ruins blossomed into a global heritage park

New Delhi, April 12 -- Sunder Nursery is a place where people arrive in their Rolls-Royces as well by e-rickshaws," says Ratish Nanda, conservation architect and CEO of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture ... Read More


What A. Revathi's memoir 'The Truth About Me' teaches us about transgender lives

New Delhi, April 5 -- On 11 December 2013, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court dealt a body blow to the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in India when they overturned a landmark 2009 judgement by the Delhi... Read More


Lindsay Pereira's new novel 'Super' explores the harsh realities of the immigrant experience in Canada

New Delhi, April 4 -- Lindsay Pereira's new novel, Super, revisits the subject of one of the short stories from his previous collection, Songs Our Bodies Sing, published last year. In If You Don't Wea... Read More