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Film-maker Tanuja Chandra’s new documentary has two unlikely protagonists: Aunty Sudha and Aunty Radha. She zeroes in on their life in a rambling ancestral house in Uttar Pradesh

People, people everywhere, but not one to connect with. Urban Indians, especially the young, are sinking into loneliness

In its 20th year, a look back at the Booker-winning novel Disgrace, which delves into racial tensions, sexual politics and the difficulty of judgement

Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey explores styles even as her signature voice continues to rule her music in a new album — her strongest so far

“Flowers?!” Bins exclaims. “Neem tree leaves? What’s going on?” I sigh in a theatrical way. “What would you know about colourful ‘tribal customs’, as ...

On September 14, 60 years ago, the Soviet probe Luna 2 crashed on the moon. It was the first man-made object to reach the Earth’s natural satellite.

The desire for oneness, for the proliferation of only one kind at the expense of all others, is a maniacal one

A stroll gives unexpected insights into the city’s equation with the season

Bulgaria likes to eat well. A food walk in its capital gives an introduction to its favourite dishes

Accounts of loneliness in literature are at once the photograph of a society as well as its critique

My relationship with the language is — to borrow from Facebook — complicated

Think globally, act locally, reiterates Josef Settele, co-author of a United Nations report that shook the world. More species are being threatened with extinction than ever before, warned the global assessment report published this year

The former CAG on the autonomy of institutes, pliable bureaucrats and how you don’t need a Sachin Tendulkar to run the BCCI

Rakhigarhi hit the headlines when the DNA extracted from a woman who lived in the village around 4,500 years ago yielded clues to the ancestry of ancient Indians. Being a hub of ancient history, though, has come at a cost to this Indus Valley Civilisation site

Unless we put people and their right to be treated as equals above anything else, democracy will be relegated to the pages of history

The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) was formed on this day in 1923. This is a quiz on police forces and policemen.Cop it1 Which ...

On the anniversary of the decriminalisation of Section 377 in India, a look at how same-sex love was an inherent feature of pre-modern Urdu literature

Journalist Amrita Shah discusses her new book, ‘Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India’, that tells the story of how post-1991 India was unmade and remade by the television set

The best way to savour the capital of Tennessee is to go “honky-tonking”

The Centre’s responses to the sharpest GDP slowdown in seven years are puzzling economic observers

Kolkata-based adivaani, India’s first Santhal publishing house, has been recording the authentic indigenous voice of the Santhals since 2012

In defence of the British writer Enid Blyton, who taught a nation about scones and ginger ale

Relics from a monastic past combine with flavourful local offerings to make Visakhapatnam a city for all ages