Parasite’s historic win may suggest a new inclusivity at the Oscars. But can these awards (or any award) be all things to all cinemas?

When the everyday seems like a hyper-real dream

Krishna Sobti’s novelised memoir is a testament to the great writer’s formal inventiveness

The localisation of the bard as a cultural study

A writer’s struggle with bipolarity

Fantasy and realism meet in this debut to mixed effect

A conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik

Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story

The redemptive power of storytelling sets this novel about religious terrorism apart

This anecdotal biography charts the evolution of India’s first crossover star

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…