Home Again

Sunday 5 May '13

To an Indian tourist, Sri Lanka is like a familiar coastal state that seems to have gone to finishing school.

God Help You!

Saturday 27 April '13

Rags to riches is fine, but all we need is love

How to find a cook

Sunday 31 March '13

A clutch of websites helps organise and train millions of informal workers in Indian cities, from drivers to domestics, beauticians to sales people, and connect them to employers like you.

Jumping Boundaries

Saturday 9 March '13

Short stories that flit from place to place and zap time

At Home in Many Worlds

Sunday 24 February '13

Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa on her first short story collection and the many universes she inhabits

Of Many Kathaks

Sunday 17 February '13

Aditi Mangaldas on the dangers of classifying dance into narrow boxes.

Publishers make hay while sun shines

Friday 8 February '13

Jumana Quilonwala, dressed in a canary yellow burkha, sits at the Campfire Graphic Novels book stall at the New Delhi World Book Fair 2013, currently on at Pragati Maidan.

House Full of Books

Sunday 3 February '13

How the Jaipur Literature Festival creates authors, reassures aspirants and promises something for everyone.

India's 'imagined landscape', where 'geographical landscape is filled with legend and stories'

Monday 28 January '13

It was a multi-disciplinary group, looking at the Kumbh Mela through many different perspectives.

'I vote with every sentence I write''

Saturday 26 January '13

For British-Pakistani author Nadeem Aslam, the personal and the political coalesce effortlessly.

Shelf-Conscious

Saturday 29 December '12

Judging books by their covers reveals a world of needy authors and sloppy editors

Granny''s Eshtew

Sunday 23 December '12

It is a thin frayed book, bound and rebound.

Stillness in Action

Sunday 9 December '12

Theatre director Sankar Venkate­swaran has a warning for those who wish to see his latest production When We Dead Awaken.

Girl in the Woods

Saturday 1 December '12

A memoir of a 1,100 mile solitary hike that promises to shatter and shelter the reader

The Now Where Dancer

Sunday 18 November '12

British-Indian dancer Aakash Odedra on stepping outside of one''s comfort zone and exploring the grey shades of his art.

The Light Fantastic

Sunday 11 November '12

Anasuya Vaidya, technical director at Delhi''s Akshara theatre, on lighting a Broadway play at 15 and how the "break in darkness" became a lifetime''s passion.

Under the Yolk

Sunday 14 October '12

An egg can be many a splendid thing.

Steve Jobs with all his contradictions, not as a role model

Thursday 11 October '12

This is a biography, a historical book, Walter Isaacson says of his bestseller.

The Flexiworkers

Sunday 7 October '12

I''ve had an insight about success you can''t be successful at everything.

Freedom Dance

Wednesday 26 September '12

One of UK''s finest choreographers, Akram Khan''s dance transforms space and confounds categories. The artist on his journey so far.

Her Highness of the Hills

Saturday 15 September '12

Ruskin Bond once again weaves a tale of eccentric characters set against dramatic sunsets

'Freedom is the right to live the way we want''

Sunday 12 August '12

I am the general secretary of VAMP (Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad), based in Sangli, Maharashtra.

Fruits of Activity

Sunday 12 August '12

Recently, a photograph of seven uneven tiles placed carefully one on top of another, with the biggest at the bottom and the smallest at the top, flashed repeatedly on the Facebook newsfeed.

Memories of Manto

Saturday 4 August '12

Ayesha Jalal speaks about the man who left Bombay for Lahore carrying only letters from friends, who boasted that he could write on anything

Grandniece peeks at Manto''s heart through Partition prism

Friday 3 August '12

The "pity of Partition" is not that a country was split, but that "human beings of both sides became slaves of passion and barbarity".