The eighth edition of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala was resonant with thought-provoking dialogues and political themes

Anita Nair creates a series of odes to food in her new book

Predictability makes a ruckus in Kunal Basu’s new novel

The art and alchemy of the magic mirror from Kerala

The film festival’s pretensions to international stature don’t square with reality. Is it time to wrest control of it from the Government?

Orhan Pamuk maps a man and a metropolis in his new novel that ticks every box of great fiction

Margaret Atwood’s take on freedom versus security gets lost amid a pack of Elvis Presley sex robots

A few thousand women in the hill ranges of Munnar challenge the male dominated trade unions of Kerala

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…