Akram Khan’s final full-length solo performance is both an end and a beginning. The dancer-choreographer speaks to Open about the need to bleed on stage
Her first novel in more than two decades returns to homes filled with silences and secrets, disappointments and dreams. The novelist in conversation with
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle