Sickness may be a great leveller but the pandemic reveals how some lives are more equal than others. Nandini Nair captures the stranded migrant labourers’ struggle for home

While it is far too soon to draw lessons from the pandemic, we can say that it is forcing us to judge our actions in relation to the whole

Two women scientists lead an expedition to study the type and flow of plastic in the Ganga

Open conversation with Anuradha Bhagwati, author and US Marine Corps veteran

Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, set in a slum in metropolitan India, has the pace of a thriller and the heart of a children’s tale

The cliques, clans and defining moments of the 13th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival

A carnival of politics and literature with a Malayali accent

For Bose Krishnamachari, art is life itself, and his solo exhibition in Kolkata shifts from minimalism to maximalism with sensational ease. He tells Nandini Nair why he can’t separate people from his creations

And the virtues of collective action

Bernardine Evaristo | Deborah Levy | Mirza Waheed | Suketu Mehta | Joe Hammond

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…