And there is nothing contradictory or ironic about it, he would have you believe.
The Catholic church in India is out on a limb to indigenise. Images such as Jesus seated on a lotus in padmasana and the Virgin Mary clad in a sari are now commonplace.
This French artist spent a year with the glass makers of Firozabad to create an installation inspired by the pavements of India.
He’s moody. He ditches. He can destroy careers. So what is it about Salman Khan that makes him so endearing?
Maharashtra Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan has the most unusual of hobbies.
They are political books. Just that everything isn’t merely spelt out, it’s also sketched. And as Indian graphic novels get more and more ambitious, they’re busy re-imagining history, Ambedkar, The Emergency, Jurassic Hyderabad and a lot more.
It seems like any other little town, until practitioners of wizardry and sorcery start turning up in their benevolent avatar as magic healers.
From adoption of kittens to underworld calls from Dubai, there’s an entire industry of spin doctors churning out fake news.
Actor-director Simon McBurney explores the ‘romantic’ relationship between mathematicians GH Hardy and Srinivas Ramanujan.
Pakistani artist Rashid Rana uses pornographic images of women to create the burkha in his critique of cultural stereotypes of women.