Unfreedom and the difficulty of screening a movie that features lesbians in India

Scorched earth, death by sun and more horror stories about the heat wave. Our correspondent travels through the worst hit areas in Andhra Pradesh and finds out that the reported death toll is an exaggeration

In June, a land swap will finally merge border enclaves of India and Bangladesh into each other’s territories. A ground report

How a 21-year-old managed to get a crayon's name changed from 'skin' to 'peach'

A temple for Narendra Modi and other shrines for politicians. A pilgrimage

Recently the Vadodara police arrested seven men for raping a newly married woman. They soon realised something startling—these regular householders had systematically targeted and raped eight women over one year

The booming market economy sustained by the World Cup

A month after Esther Anuhya’s body was found by her relatives, there is little headway in the investigation

The subject was the erotic Indian. And the speaker and his audience were senior citizens

Indian democracy has a surfeit of parties with peculiar agendas. A look at some parties that have emerged before this year’s general election