A portrait of India’s first woman anthropologist
A defence of an excessively demonised Nehru cannot itself be a one-sided affair
The Cuban cigar is coveted worldwide but what does it mean to the country itself? Ullekh NP ventures into the tobacco heartland of Pinar del Río and finds a connection with Kerala and the beedi
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed’s memoir reveals the humanism of her life and work
The toils of the Agarias in the Rann of Kutch
Hanif Kureishi transforms a personal calamity into high literature