BL Ink

What does it mean to be a Black person in India?

How to win votes and influence people by Rahul Gandhi

I did that in 1976, says Kamal Hassan

A maneater, a missing celeb-cat and a killer tiger mom

It’s postulated that 93 per cent of quiz folk get interested in trivia for the satisfaction of telling normal people how wrong they are. This is the ...

Nolan Lewis, who represented India at Mr Gay World, on the challenges of gay pageants

The Hyderabadi Numaish has been bringing Kashmir to the Deccan since 1938

Mattancherry, a quaint quarter of Kochi, now plays host to charming art galleries, music studios and restaurants

Subodh Gupta has created the monumental through everyday objects. As he mounts his biggest solo show in Delhi, he explains why he makes the familiar unfamiliar

Made three decades ago, a movie about the 1984 riots continues to be relevant

An attempt to bridge computer code with classical poetics that is only as rich as your imagination

It was late in the evening at the Kota police station. The lights were dim, the room was dank, the hushed silence broken only by the sound of Arnab, ...

Operators find ways to make data profitable with low rates and killer apps

One Part Woman tells of the travails of a milieu

Books of ecological despair provide us an odd mix of hope and hopelessness

Maruti defies the slowdown and overcomes internal strife to regain market share

Remembered pleasures of a ‘working holiday’ in Thanedar, when the apple trees were laden with fruit

Scones and pork pies, liquorice and sherbet powder… Childhood always tastes better between the pages of a book

What motivates India’s money-men to give generously to a relatively obscure sport, whose sole athlete is a Manali boy with a need for speed?

Films about sex stars need to show how desire is intertwined with desperation

A small but significant change is that women’s voices can no longer be easily silenced

A quirky business in Hyderabad uses the sun to light up offices

His empire has it all — the essential and the diverse. GVK Reddy on what makes him the ‘first and the best. On a Hyderabadi winter morning, I walk past the Rolls Royce parked in the portico of Paigah House to meet GVK Reddy, chairman and managing director of GVK.