Shubhangi Swarup

An unusual food festival in Ahmedabad has ragi pizzas and mahua flower malpuas

The amazing tale of how a camera found its owner

Photographer Edward Hoppé came to India on Rabindranath Tagore’s invitation. Yet, it is Tagore who seems the most elusive in his photographs

From governor generals to lowly soldiers, India hosts many Britons who are only too glad to hang around after they have been long dead

Besotted with the idea of India, Daivid Hopkins even went on a hunger strike to secure Indian citizenship, but in vain

Some 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.

Women are partying like crazy nowadays before bulge-bracket weddings—male strippers, foreign trips, surprise props and all

You 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

Barren Island in the Andamans has India’s only active volcano, but it’s harmless to a fault

Prolific Iranian filmmaker and daughter of the legendary Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira believes love is the answer to fundamentalism