Poorna Swami
Dance and theatre productions upturn popular versions of characters and stories from the Ramayana
Jeet Thayil’s new novel is inhabited by troubled storytellers. The novelist talks about his art and life in a conversation with Nandini Nair
The Adivasi Will Not Dance tells of a Santhal worldview that is all too often ignored
Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story
The chronicler of metropolises returns to fiction to tell the story of memory and displacement
Anita Nair’s second Inspector Gowda offering is on the horrors of child trafficking and sexual abuse
Three artists explore the joys of city strolling and mining its stories. On display under a single roof in a Bangalore gallery are the pleasures of flânerie