

Monday 29 June '09
Once upon a time, in not-so-far-away Lucknow, two rival storytellers—Muhammad Husain Jah and Ahmed Husain Qamar—wrote a fantasy epic in Urdu called Tilism-e Hoshruba.Sunday 28 June '09
Sankar, the conscience-keeper of the Sixties Calcutta, gets discovered outside of Bengal and India. And he can’t stop chucklingMonday
8 June '09In Sarnath Banerjee’s debut graphic novel Corridor, his protagonist, a lanky Bengali from Calcutta...Wednesday
3 June '09In Sarnath Banerjee’s debut graphic novel Corridor, his protagonist, a lanky Bengali from Calcutta...Sunday
24 May '09Facebook is passé. It is all about Twitter right here, right nowFriday
22 May '09Keki Daruwalla, the police officer who became a famous poet and short story writer, now has an answer for everybody who’s ever asked him why he’s never written a novel.Wednesday
20 May '09As the UPA stormed to the top, one writer couldn’t contain his ecstasy. Jeffrey Archer, best-selling British writer, was jubiliant: “I was worried that eight or 10 parties would come together to form a coalition.Tuesday
19 May '09Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee edges himself into a corner and looks intently into the camera.Monday
18 May '09As the UPA stormed to the top, one writer couldn’t contain his ecstasy. Jeffrey Archer, best-selling British writer, was jubiliant: “I was worried that eight or 10 parties would come together to form a coalition.Thursday
14 May '09Rujuta Diwekar (inset) probably knew that she was sitting on a bestseller when she began writing Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight.Monday
11 May '09Rujuta Diwekar probably knew that she was sitting on a bestseller when she began writing Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight.Sunday
10 May '09On his blog India Uncut, Amit Varma hurries from a humorous poem on Mrs Darwin at the zoo by the new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, to baboons ransacking starlet Shamita Shetty’s room in South Africa.Tuesday
5 May '09The ‘Birds and Bees Text Line’, which the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina, US, started on February 1....Saturday
25 April '09If you are an erstwhile princess, your life itself makes for good reading.Monday
13 April '09From 2001 to 2008, Chandrakant Mohanlal would wake up at 4 am, head to Chor Bazaar and buy records of Hindi film songs.Friday
10 April '09From 2001 to 2008, Chandrakant Mohanlal would wake up at 4 am, head to Chor Bazaar in Mumbai and buy records of Hindi film songs.Thursday
9 April '09From 2001 to 2008, Chandrakant Mohanlal would wake up at 4 am, head to Chor Bazaar in Mumbai and buy records of Hindi film songs.Sunday
5 April '09Aditya Sudarshan modestly acknowledges being a multiple gold medalist from the National Law School of India University and then with a slightly sheepish grimace...Monday
16 March '09In Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle’s camera swept over Dharavi in a frenetic pace, winding into its intestines as the police chased Jamal and Salim, each frame punctuated by AR Rahman’s staccato beats throbbing in the background.Sunday
8 March '09A look at some of the applications that are stirring things up on FacebookMonday
2 March '09Years ago, every Sunday, at exactly nine in the morning, the nation tuned in to watch B.R. Chopra’s Mahabharata.Monday
2 March '09Years ago, every Sunday, at exactly nine in the morning, the nation tuned in to watch B.R. Chopra’s Mahabharata.Sunday
1 March '09Our correspondent asks all the right questions and gets some fun answersSunday
15 February '09Tracing the life and times of phad paintings of RajasthanSunday
8 February '09Jose Abad bounds up the stairs to show me dancer Anusha Lall’s interactive video installation in one of the bedrooms on the first floor.