Amrita Dutta

The room of stories

If you ask the grownups going about their business in the lanes of Mustafabad in east Delhi to direct you to your destination, they won’t be of much h

Original soundtrack

A new book reveals the life and worth of the anonymous musicians who made Bollywood’s golden melodies

Rubber brand

Little Owen Kim, like all toddlers who know how to have a good time, would rather fling his toys around and watch the fun as Mamma gets hot and bother

FOOD, HIS STORY

Revisiting the life of K.T. Achaya, scientist, historian and the man who first showed us the world on our platter

‘ALL THAT WE CAN DO IS GO AGAINST THE CURRENT’

Anita Desai on the paradox of great literature and how her writing has changed through time

The missing plot

It’s the most popular genre in the world. But why hasn’t the whodunit lured more Indian writers in english?

Ideas that travel the world

A look at some books that may be on your future reading lists, and how historians are the public intellectuals of our time

At the cool new TERI campus, air-conditioners have gone underground

The seasons don’t exist four metres below the scorched earth on which we stand — where the temperature always hovers at a cool 25 degrees Celsius, whe

Sunset industry

The Convergys call centre, off NH8, is one of many buildings in Gurgaon that lay claim to a vision of modernity through their architecture.

‘Languages seep into each other, form each other. They are like people’

One of the most scholarly writers of our time has written possibly his most entertaining novel, ‘Sea of Poppies’.

Roots helped fight apartheid: Natal’s first woman lawyer

Navenethem Pillay, Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, knows what it is to live and fight in unjust times.