culture

Cho Dharman: Alone in Shadowland

V Shoba

Tamil author Cho Dharman turns tales from the bucolic into cultural histories and anthropological meditations. He talks about his art and politics in a conversation with V Shoba

Home: A Divided Memory

Manisha Gera Baswani

Why I photographed 47 artists from India and Pakistan in their studios

Wajid Ali Shah: The Royal Yogi of Lucknow

Ranjit Hoskote

A Nawab’s syncretism finds expression in his art

Why Vivekananda Matters More Today

Makarand R Paranjape

Swami of the mind

The Cult of Draupadi

V Shoba

In praise of an inclusive goddess

The Spice Route

Amita Shah

What’s it about Thalassery biryani

Indebted to Imaginary Pleasures

Shylashri Shankar

Photographs of food can be equally appetising

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India