India’s sci-fi dreams have long circled back to its oldest stories. From Grant Morrison’s “Vedicpunk” Mahabharata with mechs and war machin...

Renowned theatre personality and Padma Shri awardee Ratan Thiyam passed away in Imphal at 77 after a prolonged illness. Known for fusing Ma...

Saransh Goila's U.S. visa denial in 2011 initially crushed his dreams of culinary stardom. However, this setback led to an unexpected oppor...

Spring has brought a fragrant breeze, celebrated by Indian poets and artists for centuries. The Harshatmata temple's sculptures in Rajastha...

Sabyasachi Mukherjee's celebration of 25 years in fashion at Mumbai's Jio World Centre highlighted Kolkata as a fashion capital. Drawing in...

Where Vikram Seth said “Fiyaaah” and literature bloomed, where poetry, prose, and pink canopies came together, when Jerry Pinto and Shobhaa...

India's education system should open up and offer those who love maths and other subjects a chance at various stages to spread that love to...

There are many ways of talking about Shaunak Sen's Oscar-nominated documentary, All That Breathes - the warm, life-affirming story of two b...

Today, we may be gender-sensitised to politically correct rhetoric. But in literature and art, Earth, nation, region and territorial contro...

There are several such (secular) stories of ancient India and more than enough great empires, grand rivalries, doomed love stories, female-...

I would go whenever possible to listen to Vajpayee speak and one evening speech on the beaches of Mumbai made a lasting impression for the ...

Such a move would come as a partial relief for Indian companies that have overseas units, although the CBDT clarifications won’t be "open t...

Over 100 authors, thinkers, poets and performers have been lined up to participate in the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival at Boulder in Colo...

Writings of eight Indian authors in English, their potrayal of modern India and what their works suggest about the country form the crux of...

Critics who argue about the high costs and attendant ‘elitism’ will be swept away by the power of an idea whose time is clearly overdue.

It is a bit of a stretch to imagine a smooth transition from that globular vegetable to that pendulous fruit in many dishes.

Imagine an alien browsing through a galactic library for 1950s Bollywood classics. How should he react to a title such as Chaudhvin Ka Chan...