Curator Shaheen Merali brings together seven artists who use different media to expose the ugly truth of life.

India is finally getting to Pondicherry. Its quaint French character is being overrun by an urban Indian ethos.

A large number of African-Indians competed in sports to celebrate an African-American president’s first anniversary.


Author Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad takes on allegations of perversion in depicting Draupadi, and also reveals that his new work will revolve around Krishna’s wife, Satyabhama.

A Telugu novel, honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, has both the literary community and Hindu rightwing worked up over its ‘pornographic’ depiction of Draupadi.

In Udupi, a 60-year-old does something pretty unique for an elderly widow: she performs the last rites for the dead.

They say this quaint little town by the Cauvery bears a curse upon it. Every year, tonnes of sand would blow in and bury the exquisite temples of the region. Exploring the myth behind the phenomenon

A Spanish football club is running a school in Andhra Pradesh to educate children and spot sporting talent

The Indian infotech industry is under intense pricing pressure globally. It may even have to rethink its very business model

Sex workers in Mysore begin to run a restaurant. Everybody around, surprisingly, helps

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…