Photographer Gauri Gill’s images of Rajasthan are distinct for their absence of colour. She says that would have just got in her way.

His own story is astonishing, but Vicky Roy’s photos of Ground Zero would stand out even without his life graph.

Crime fiction maestro Ian Rankin on why detectives never marry, coffee with neighbours JK Rowling and Alexander McCall Smith, and tea conversations with Sharmila Tagore.

If Hrishikesh Mukherjee had ever tired his hand at writing fiction, he would have read a lot like this Farahad Zama’s The Marriage Bureau for Rich People or its sequel, The Many Conditions of Love.

That’s the baseline prescription of Elizabeth Pisani, the author of a book on fighting the killer virus.

From the colonial plantations of India to the ubiquitous pair of blue jeans, indigo has a fascinating story. And artists Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti are telling it through their show.

Photographer and curator Mark Edwards juxtaposes Bob Dylan’s lyrics with photos that draw attention to man’s headlong collision with nature

In a village in Rajasthan, illiterate African women are being taught to become solar engineers

Restless, fevered even, and awash with the portend of impending doom, Theroux’s latest is difficult to put down or forget.

Paul Theroux on his latest novel set in Calcutta, on how Naipaul ‘oversimplified the city in one of his belittling books’, on why you can never trust writers...