A recently published anthology of visual narratives of Partition revisits a haunting part of history with mixed results

Neither exists, but both are brought into being by common consensus

The unusual filmmakers of Ladakh

Why fasts like Jagan Reddy’s and Chandrababu Naidu’s fail before they begin

Zia Mody’s 10 Judgements That Changed India offers a quick and succinct, if somewhat dry, insight into India’s judicial journey

On SN Goenka, the Vipassana guru who passed away this week

The National Integration Council’s strange unanimity on regulating social media to deal with riots

Gulzar watching his first movie once again and other glimpses from a film festival in Ladakh

If the slurs against Miss America were because Americans thought she was an Arab, why are Indians getting upset?

...and women, too. What makes them take a seven-month one-way trip to an uninhabitable planet?

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…