The lives of people who live higher than most people

Mike McCleary’s scores for Shanghai and Shaitaan spotlight the work of a man who barely understands Hindi and usually works blind, without a script

Our growing waistlines mean the equivalent of 242 million extra people on Earth

As the Amul moppet in her polka-dotted frock turns 50, the story of her journey as an advertising icon

Amid pauses longer than his answers, the superstar with a conscience responds to criticisms of his new TV show and talks about measuring success by the number of hearts he touches

The peculiar real estate crisis that Indian minorities face in burying their dead

An ‘evil’ mall is coming up on this iconic street in Kolkata that is considered the world’s largest second-hand book market

Meet India’s sperm donors

This photographer started taking black-and-white portraits of commuters on local Mumbai trains 18 months ago. An exhibition and a book later, he still can’t stop

Built in 1907, this graveyard contains ashes of Japanese traders and sex workers

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…