An unusual food festival in Ahmedabad has ragi pizzas and mahua flower malpuas
07 January 2011Photographer Edward Hoppé came to India on Rabindranath Tagore’s invitation. Yet, it is Tagore who seems the most elusive in his photographs
05 January 2011From governor generals to lowly soldiers, India hosts many Britons who are only too glad to hang around after they have been long dead
30 December 2010Besotted with the idea of India, Daivid Hopkins even went on a hunger strike to secure Indian citizenship, but in vain
29 December 2010Some things have not changed: little or no sex. It’s just that friends now insist on making it more memorable than the newlywed would like.
03 December 2010Women are partying like crazy nowadays before bulge-bracket weddings—male strippers, foreign trips, surprise props and all
21 November 2010You can save the world, become a farmer, have 5,000 friends, be the centrefold model who can goggle a billion eyes on the internet… but none of it is true
09 November 2010Barren Island in the Andamans has India’s only active volcano, but it’s harmless to a fault
05 November 2010Prolific Iranian filmmaker and daughter of the legendary Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira believes love is the answer to fundamentalism
03 November 2010Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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
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