In his memoir actor and director MK Raina recounts using theatre to heal

Perumal Murugan’s novel wins the JCB Prize for its depiction of displacement and movement

Balli Kaur Jaswal explores the complex web of relations between the country’s elite and its domestic help in her new novel

Swapna Liddle portrays a Delhi where histories overlap

When art bridges the gap between humans and nature

Two women struggle for survival in a Himalayan ghost village

Sheela Tomy’s novel tells the stories of the land and its people. She speaks to Open about bringing the Western Ghats alive in fiction

Serena Chopra’s photobook from a Delhi neighbourhood reveals the faces and voices of a little Tibet

An exhibition chronicling women over the span of 2,000 years, opens at the Bihar Museum

The result of India gaining its independence was that it signalled a widespread change in the attitude towards colonial rule

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…