Jhumpa Lahiri discusses words and the world with Nandini Nair

A large-scale exhibition foregrounds the individual practices of 267 artists who trace their roots to Kerala

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, written in Italian and translated into English, refreshes her themes of solitude and belonging with renewed vigour

Jeet Thayil’s new novel chronicles the women whose roles were deleted from the gospels. The author speaks to Nandini Nair about the need to write these erasures

As editor, columnist and literary impresario, Anil Dharker was an original

The pandemic has forced us to reconsider the norm

Mulshi, one of the wettest places on the planet, marks the centenary of the world’s first anti-dam movement

Chilean author Isabel Allende’s new book is a memoir on feminism. She speaks to Nandini Nair on womanhood and revolutions

Parasitism is the commonest way of life on earth

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…