summer

Around the world in 80 minutes

Shaikh Ayaz

India’s avant-garde filmmakers recommend world cinema classics that shaped them

The replacement thrillers

Rajni George

Who are the new Stieg Larssons? This season’s crime novels are bigger, badder and sometimes better

The age of the Sari Bikini

Aastha Atray Banan

It could say a lot about what Indian women think is their best asset

Fire and ice

Sunaina Kumar

From Mango Daulat Ki Chaat to Mishti Doi Lollipops, top chefs pick dishes appropriate for mercury rising

At 40º C if you can’t handle the heat, it’s time to get out of the plains. But where to? We squinted at the globe, stared at the map and called the experts to come up with a summer travel menu of places that’ll re-sap your spirits. Read on for where to smell the wildflowers, listen to the stomp of wildebeest and how to jump off an aircraft so you can hurtle earthwards at 200 kmph.