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