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What’s the future of the art museum post-Covid?

Shwetal Patel

András Szántó delves into the subject and expects Indians and others not to ape the West, but to democratise museums

An Objective History

Vinay Lal

Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future

A Poet’s Pursuits

Urvashi Bahuguna

The passions and poetry of Agha Shahid Ali

The Wages of War

Nandini Nair

The Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam, whose new book portrays the island after the civil war, speaks to Nandini Nair about the spectatorship of violence and the persistence of grief

The Author between the Lines

Mini Kapoor

Do we read too much biographical detail into novels?

Desert Pains

Suneetha Balakrishnan

Expatriate anguish in an imagined country in the Gulf

The House of Tatas

Siddharth Singh

A portrait of a business group as a capital asset in history

‘All writers are outsiders,’ says Tahmima Anam

Antara Raghavan

Tahmima Anam’s new novel moves away from her Bangladesh trilogy. She speaks to Antara Raghavan about chronicling the seductions and perils of the startup world