On a magic carpet with Ritu Kumar

Community art initiatives are gaining momentum

They have been let into the country but do not have permission to make a living here

A cluster of villages in a remote corner of Meghalaya has a most unusual tradition. The midwives here are male

Michel Sidibé says UNAIDS aims to halve HIV transmission by 2015

Unique to this part of the world, these feral horses are a sight to remember. Especially once you know the secret of their lineage

Dancing in water is about letting go of the human urge to control, says choreographer Chris Lechner

Meet Om Pal, for whom the street outside Mirza Ghalib’s tomb is a canvas

It is not Enid Blyton’s English woods, it is an Indian wholesale market for toys. A glimpse of how Chinese efficiency works wonders with Indian enterprise

Ani Choying Drolma joined a monastery to escape her father’s beatings and found a voice that has now got Warner Brothers lining up

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…