New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Sometime in the 1950s, at a lunch with friends in Karachi, where she had moved with her mother from Lucknow after Partition, Urdu writer Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007) snapped at ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- In 2002, the famously reclusive artist Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) enjoyed a resurgence in the public eye after one of his paintings, a triptych titled Celebration (1995), fetched a s... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- In 2009, the year before he died at the age of 91, American writer J.D. Salinger successfully sued Fredrik Colting, one of his ardent fans, who had composed a sequel to Salinger's... Read More
New Delhi, July 30 -- On the afternoon of 25 July, as news of Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation as Union education minister broke on the internet, a profusion of reels and memes celebrating the "victor... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- In 2010, San Francisco-based Sri Bodanapu, now in her 40s, left a decade-long career in tech to go to baking school in Paris. It was a daring move for someone who had grown up in... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- Tabish Khair's new novel derives its title from a statement made by its unnamed narrator to a fellow writer at a literary festival on the island of St Martin in France. On a booz... Read More
New Delhi, July 20 -- One of my favourite genres of social media content features a variation around the following theme: a bully manager and a brazen Gen Z character lock horns over an unfair demand ... Read More
New Delhi, July 19 -- On a recent afternoon in Jacobpura, a nondescript, dusty neighbourhood in Gurugram's Sector 12 sweltering in the summer heat, a stranger walks into the crammed front office of th... Read More
New Delhi, July 11 -- Manil Suri's memoir, A Room in Bombay, is dedicated to "Prem". It becomes clear in the first few pages that it refers to his late mother, Prem Suri nee Bindra. The decision to re... Read More
New Delhi, July 5 -- It's nearly a month since members of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and their supporters gathered at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar on 6 June to stage a public protest. Despite extre... Read More