Fasting, feasting and the politics of food in India

The National AIDS Control Organisation has recently claimed that syphilis is close to eradication in India. While that itself is contestable, the real shocker is what the US condoned in the name of syphilis research

In search of the perfect body

How many more deaths will it take before we go beyond half measures?

The wave of recent popular uprisings, including our very own, are reminiscent of an ancient cathartic tradition. Some will remember it as the Dancing Mania

A little green bungalow in Bombay, a colonial era writer who still haunts it, and the stories left to tell

Somewhere, it is always the time of cholera

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…