From the Biodiversity Bill to women in boardrooms, the irrepressible Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw strikes a different note

It’s another Kumbh spectacular on the riverbank as sadhus and seekers join the biggest festival of faith

The rising star of Indonesian fiction, Eka Kurniawan spins a tale that is as bloody as it is brilliant. He has a message for the world—the truth always exposes itself. The magical realist in conversation with Open

Muslim countries don’t support it, neither should India, says the petitioner fighting to put an end to triple talaq. Could Shayara Bano be the woman who challenged the misogyny after Shah Bano?

The most imaginative reinterpretations of the Bard are being seen in Asia, says the foremost Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro

He understands the personal better than a shrink and the political better than a pundit. He explains it all better than a sage. An Open celebration of the world’s greatest storyteller

William Dalrymple was a keen photographer before he became an author. The cell phone has returned him to that abandoned love.

Thank you Rolling Stones, for revealing that music isn’t time and space specific

Sunil Khilnani explores the idea of India through the profiles of fifty Indians who shaped history

Kanishk Tharoor creates fiction not from a castle of fancies but from the realm of history

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…