Adobe will only offer its software on an online cloud and no longer sell CDs. Is this a smart strategy for India?

Trinath Mishra on his refusal to give in to political meddling, which led to his decision to bow out of the agency after just 14 months

A new crop of writers are adapting the the tried-and-tested spy thriller to an Indian context, for an Indian readership, with a familiar villain

How he ‘inadvertently’ put another poet’s works in his collection and why the episode remained unknown

Thanks to Bollywood, the exquisite Jadau jewellery of Bikaner is no longer the exclusive preserve of royalty

The five most useful smartphone apps designed by Indians for Indians

The dramatic story of Paan Singh Tomar’s death, as reconstructed from the accounts of two eyewitnesses. On one side, a former police officer who led the encounter that killed him. And on the other, the dacoit’s nephew and former gang member who survived that 12-hour gunfight in October 1981

Singh recorded more than 80 albums in a career spanning four decades

“Auto drivers don’t have the right to check what people carry with them. I don’t know what they might be leaving behind”

We see real-life romance daily. Lovebirds from a local college come regularly. And many Romeos get spurned here