Indian society

A Farewell to the Crime of Adultery

Madhavankutty Pillai

An Equal State

Makarand R Paranjape

Isn’t it time to end the tyranny of special provisions?

Racing Against Time

Sumana Ramanan

What the women runners reveal about Indian society

The Zen of Inheritance

Harsh Roongta

The rite of succession in India

Family Truths

Sanjay Sipahimalani

An exploration of the Indian middle-class psyche

A Fresh Start

V Shoba

Urban Indians raising their children in nuclear families are exploring child-led parenting approaches

Bhumi Pednekar: Sex Appeal

Kaveree Bamzai

In her new movie, Bhumi Pednekar is a cosmopolitan singleton in search of pleasure. She tells Kaveree Bamzai why she wants to represent women in all their ambition

Lost at Home

Kinshuk Gupta

A landmark Hindi novel of the 1960s, now translated into English, tells of a woman caught between individual freedom and social obligation

Death by Dreams in Kota

Aditya Iyer

Long known as India’s coaching capital, Kota has been rocked by a spate of student suicides—twenty-seven to date this year. Aditya Iyer travels to the Rajasthani city in search of answers