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

India of the 1800s and 1900s seen through a French and Indian lens

The second day of the JLF 2022 was a success after two years of the pandemic

Kunal Basu’s latest novel explores the conflict between different versions of India

M Mukundan’s award-winning biography of a city reveals Delhi’s underbelly with compassion. The author tells Antara Raghavan why a river of sorrow runs beneath his stories

Alita Chandra’s abstract art reflects both memories and music. The artist in conversation with Antara Raghavan

With her 20th book, Namita Gokhale does what she does best—write about lives like ours

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…