A form of venture funding, which uses the profit motive to create social change, is slowly making its presence felt in India.

Hanif Kureishi’s older stories are brilliant, funny and compelling. But the newer ones are a disappointment.

Hanif Kureishi on writing, racism and radical Islam.

Co-publisher John Goldwater wanted an everyday American boy, the opposite of Superman.

The last Polish head of state to die in office, Wladyslaw Sikorski, also died in a plane crash.

Why astrologers and their clients see truth and validity in astrology where none exists.

Extensive tests, including one by India’s most famous astrophysicist, confirm that astrology is a hoax.

While we debate the merits of euthanasia, while well-meaning emotion battles hard-headed reason, Aruna Shanbag languishes in her vegetative state in a hospital bed. It’s been 40 years. Get your head around it.

The Kala Ghoda fest is supposedly about nine days of ‘cultural’ activity. But it’s really more a street fair.

Boa, an 85-year-old Andamanese, who was the last living member of an ancient tribe, died on Republic Day.

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…