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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

Among the Brahmins
S Prasannarajan

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

Indraprastha
Virendra Kapoor

The new crowd at five-star hotels and the old problem of Diwali gifts

Mumbai Notebook
Anil Dharker

Jinnah's house on Malabar Hill and daily blood on the tracks

Magical Realism
Vineetha Mokkil

The wonder that is India

David Gilmour: ‘The Raj-bashers are oversimplifying a long and very varied period of history’
S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan in Open Conversation with David Gilmour, English historian
 

The Twain Shall Meet, But…
Rachel Dwyer

When Indian films celebrate the West for all the wrong reasons

Mumbai Notebook
Anil Dharker

A city of ‘Identity and Culture’

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