Even the green grocer sells apples, mangoes but ‘mithaas’ oozes from only a jalebi. This chutnification, to borrow Salman ...

Lit fests across India are bridging the gap between the reader and writer and giving a platform to regional writers and their ...

My first exposure to magical realism was reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Drawn into a world where tigers lived on boats with boys and trees bore fruit with t ...

Pampa is another name for Parvati, hoping to entice a meditating Shiva into matrimony. It is also the old name for the river Tungabhadra, and the ancient moniker of Hampi, a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

How a cartoon crisis transformed a local debate into a global reckoning over censorship and religious sensitivities – one ...

The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...

Many Indian writers have benefitted from the famed Iowa Writing Program, but recent funding cuts threaten to close this ...

And so they go back home and they lie in bed and they watch TV ... On not reading his friend Salman Rushdie's memoir, Knife, about the attack that almost killed him and his recovery The reason I ...

Take Gov. Laura Kelly, who recently declared a group of Sunflower satanists would not be allowed to hold a blasphemous “black ...

The pair dated in 2009 and when Lakshmi had a daughter in 2010, she refused to reveal her paternity - that and custody were eventually settled, and a brief reconciliation followed He has one of the ...

Locals share their tips on what to see, do and buy, from discovering iconic landmarks and hidden gems, to encountering ...