This queer anthology questions labels such as ‘straight’ and ‘gay’ and, among other things, addresses the complications of love

Times when players would rather a commentator didn’t praise them

Uday Benegal, lead singer of Indus Creed, on the band’s new album 'Evolve' after a silence of 17 years, and about its return to a revitalised Indian rock scene

A train is travelling through the country teaching thousands of students science

Quasar Thakore Padamsee challenges his audience to piece together his play on Tibetan identity

Nandu Madhav, best known for his turn as Dadasaheb Phalke in India’s Oscar entry film Harishchandrachi Factory, directs a successful play on Shivaji

In an interview with Open, writer Martin Jacques sounds a wake-up call for India: engage China or prepare to endure its hegemony

A father tormented by visions of his dead son, a boy battling dreams of azaadi and football, soldiers fighting their inner demons... Djinns of Eidgah is a deeply disturbing play on Kashmir

Niranjan Hiranandani was leased land to build affordable housing. Instead, he made flats for the rich. Now the Bombay High Court has ordered him to keep his original word

Vaishali Salavkar is a wife, mother, masseuse. And, oh, she recently won her sixth national blind chess title

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…