New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire.  In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

Deftly combining social satire with political critique, Taunsvi anticipates Manto’s Partition fiction, written after 1948… The Sixth River ...

‘[This] book succeeds in making us see the poetics of disobedience in the utterly illiberal prosaic ethos of our times, in the light of giving ...

During the Second World War, many of the Indians settled in Burma were killed following the bombing of Rangoon by the Japanese Air Force. Thousands more ...

Enter the magical, timeless world of classic fairy tales from India. A prince sets out on an adventure and is joined by a talking parrot and the ‘Ant-Raja’. ...

The early 1980s: A fiery preacher has outgrown his mentors and is raising an army of radicalized young men across Punjab. In Moranwale village, young ...

To Deepa, Prem gave no hint of the churning inside him. In front of her he affected a cheery demeanour, indulging her in her plans for their honeymoon ...

This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, This is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz In the two decades since ...

‘Where can one find the Mahabharata ? The facile answer is “India”.’ A chance comment in 1974 fired Peter Brook and Jean-Claude ...

When she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, writes Ananya Mukherjee, she was ‘stunned and disappointed in myself but quickly ...