Life is Not Everywhere

It’s that time of the season when…

Modern Marriages in Mumbai: The Unfulfilled Lives of Others

Elizabeth Flock tracks the moods and messiness of modern marriages in Mumbai

Girl Power Steals the Scene

The struggle for dignity and civility

Male and Malevolent in Kerala

Only in Kerala. Where an actor accused in a rape case is feted and protected by a powerful brotherhood in the industry while the victim, a popular heroine of South Indian cinema, supported by a few of her feisty female colleagues, fights alone for justice in the face of rising insensitivity and indifference from the patriarchs of Malayalam cinema

Slap and Strut

Malayali matinee idols and their vulgar masculinity

Pulp Paradox

By pandering to the prurient fantasies of Malayali men, Kerala’s popular culture has abetted misogyny in life and politics

London Notebook

The sculptures of Trafalgar Square

Self-Indulgent

Rachel Cusk with her trilogy completes an extraordinary journey in fiction

A Dishonourable Killing

The price women in Pakistan pay for challenging social norms