Is it time to stop bashing the Indian man and start a conversation with him?

Rosemary Crill and Divia Patel, co-curators of an upcoming exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, talk about the illustrious legacy of Indian textiles

A despatch from the district with the lowest sex ratio

The life and times of Jyoti Amge, the world’s smallest woman

A selection of the exceptional at the Art Fair varies from the psychedelic to mystifying allegories

Author Javier Moro on the release of his controversial book, The Red Sari, and why the life of Sonia Gandhi fascinates him

The inimitable art of Rajkumar Hirani, Bollywood’s most profitable director

The fear of extinction and the great reproductive panic of the Parsi community

The world’s most virile bull, still a virgin at six, is more expensive than a Ferrari. In a remote village in Haryana, we find the loneliness of Yuvraj more expressive than the reproductive business he runs

The best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code lectures on science and religion, and why he’s adept at killing off characters, in his turn at the Penguin Annual Lecture in India