Political life in Tamil Nadu is no longer dominated by larger-than-life leaders, in spite of Rajinikanth. Both DMK and AIADMK are struggling without a mass hero

TM Krishna tells V Shoba how his book on Mrdangam makers made him examine his relationship with instrumentalists and other hierarchies

The musical activism of Rahul Ram

Jagan Mohan Reddy’s three-capital formula and impatience with the Legislative Council have set Andhra Pradesh on a chaotic path

An ambitious restoration project aims to breathe life into the ruins of the Vijayanagara empire

The Tamil superstar has become a solo act in political suspense

A biography of Kerala’s defining fruit

The alleged encounter killing of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad may have made heroes of the police. But at the same time, officers in plainclothes are making the city safer for women

Now that the race is won, the BJP will focus on setting its house in order with a Cabinet reshuffle

The suicide of Fathima Latheef in IIT Madras reveals the other side of India’s premier academic institutions

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…