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A touching portrayal of sexuality beyond straitjacketed labels, this film is a complete triumph

What do bird calls do to human minds? Our brains store away the aural backgrounds to our lives and when we hear strange, unfamilar sounds, we feel alienated. In this personal aural mindscape of ours, birds play a major part

When did sweets become an integral part of our diet? In ancient times, honey was probably the source of all sweetness. The first evidence of crystalline sugar in human history comes from India

Having pulled off the best performance of her career, Sonam Kapoor reveals why she can’t talk of Neerja in the past tense and why superstardom is boring

Is it the end of sporting Brahminism as well?

An ode to the Dalit singer Bant Singh explores the beauty and bloodiness of Punjab

Is writing a memoir worth the sacrifice, the self-shaming, the self-aggrandising?

This celebration of Indian birds is a treasure chest that might even kick-start a lifelong passion in readers

Vivek Shanbhag has written a finely-woven novel which tells of the machinations of work and money, prosperity and globalisation through the story of a family

The story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, ‘an exasperating little girl’ who wished to become an astronaut