For Generation Z, the last two years have forced a shift in perspectives and priorities. A chronicle of how college students survived the pandemic

This year’s India Art Fair allows South Asian artists to enjoy the well-deserved limelight

Monica Ali’s new novel deals with love and betrayal, race and gender. She speaks to Nandini Nair about interrogating stereotypes

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s seventh novel opens with the discovery of a dead body in a park. He speaks to Nandini Nair about creating crafty characters and the villainy principle

The 15th Jaipur Literature Festival was more intimate in scale and more Indian in content

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel that chronicles rapid urbanisation in an unequal India. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s hollow men and class wars

Millions are playing the Wordle every day because it challenges and fulfils

Ramachandra Guha’s new book portrays seven westerners who joined India’s freedom movement. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s rebels and the meaning of patriotism

The meanings and methods of online hate

Bharti Kher transforms materials and textures to create works of defiance

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…