The rise of Anant Singh and the sham of Nitish Kumar’s clean politics

In transit, you are never sure what time it is. Time is of no great consequence here.

Sankarshan Thakur’s biography of Nitish Kumar is also an intimate portrait of Bihar, a state you may be forced out of but cannot really ever leave

Strains of rock music have begun to waft across the gullies of Nizamuddin that usually reverberate with qawwaalis

They might sell their bodies daily to men, but they also have tortured relationships with steady partners

A primeval analysis endures

India’s underground BDSM practitioners want Bondage-Discipline-Sadism-Masochism seen as alternative sexuality, not deviant behaviour

…and the case for dignity in reporting on rape

What makes neighbours murder and brutalise each other? The portrait of two warring groups in Muzaffarnagar, UP, illuminates the ancient question

For a long time, the fashion world could not understand why Gaurav Jai Gupta was weaving metal into textiles. But he feels vindicated now

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…