Chronicling Chennai’s flood and the many failures of multiple stakeholders to mitigate and respond to the disaster

Arundhathi Subramaniam’s recent collection of poems revisits childhood, friendships and ageing

HM Naqvi captures the dilapidations of age and a city in his new novel

Literary journalism of a poet

A poet in his liminal world

Being an Italian son-in-law in India

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has written a fable of arranged marriages and spiritual quests

Mahesh Rao draws upon the genius of Jane Austen to tell a contemporary Delhi tale

Gieve Patel’s cityscapes are both a celebration and a defence of Mumbai

Aimee Nezhukumatathil turns the mundane into the magical. The Indian-American poet talks about her art and the idea of home

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…