Rajasthan’s ambassadors of folk music are going global—and making it bigger at home

Acclaimed writer and critic Shamsur Rahman Faruqi on poetry, Indian literary theory and Urdu’s legacy in an exclusive preview of his new book

Richard Flanagan has won the Man Booker for his epic around the Burma Death Railway

The Australian novelist won the world's big book prize for his war novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North

We spoke to Dr Atul Gawande about his much awaited new book on managing mortality

An art adventure; the American cynic; dystopian love; the Burma Death Railway; a very Bengali tale; and a monkey girl

It’s transition time in Indian publishing families as a new generation faces a difficult market with daring ideas

Nalini Malani enters the third and final chapter of her year-long retrospective in India, continuing to resist tags and seek out the invisible

The charming story of a family of Indians who went to Jerusalem to mind an Indian hospice and stayed

The reissue of the pioneer’s four classics brings to life his spiritual quest in all its vividness

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…