Nandini Nair

A psychoanalyst’s hands-on approach to civilisation

Cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Murkherjee highlights the importance of tenderness in scientific inquiry and the many meanings of ‘normal’

KR Meera’s new novella is born of an early fascination with Naxalism and freedom

They invest effort and money in big dreams but get only meagre returns. Young men and women on being let down by the NCR job market

Alain de Botton returns to fiction and redeems love from romance. The philosopher novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair

The Delhi-born, US-based writer's new novel captures the terror and tragedy of our time

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?