Doubts have suddenly been cast on the ‘miraculous’ discovery of a new species of macaque in the Eastern Himalayas of Arunachal. The scientists who found it are not amused

Magician Samrat Shankar doubles as a pseudo shrink

In a 1868 book, Darwin noted the existence of a ‘hybrid ass-zebra’

Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar is on death row. The charges levelled against him under TADA don’t stick, but President Pratibha Patil has rejected his mercy petition anyway. Mercifully, not everyone is keeping quiet about this

On reading the second part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy, it’s evident that there is such a thing as too much research

Everybody’s snaps attract an audience online, but the Delhi Photo Festival offers image-makers one that’s democratic and discerning

Her hobbies are swimming, yoga, making quince jam and tending to her roses

Frog eating stunt on Facebook puts Goa teenager in a soup

Gruelling research is just preparation for that moment when the story comes to possess him, says Amitav Ghosh

Babu Kumar Sri Sri is a politician on an ambitious social mission: to help Indian lovers find marital bliss and get special privileges

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…