For Olympic hopefuls and educational migrants, victory has a thousand fathers. But what of loss?

Drudge labourers are paid the same amount their forefathers were paid two-and-half millennia ago! Is the media taking note?

Will Patna’s historical ghats be relegated to a watery grave, and sacrificed for Chinese innovation?

Will the Shantiniketan case finally force us to acknowledge and stop ­­­­­­the emotional abuse of children in India?

Einstein, Higgs and how behind every successful Boson is a curvaceous Bengali bou.

What really shakes us up? And our Prime Minister’s Office?

Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena’s theory of sleeping with the enemy de-constructed.

Extract from the author's book, The Rat Eater, on a musahar and his family.

Temptation, brutality, romance, inspiration. Songs, books and even ads. A rural-urban divide. All thanks to the king of fruits.

There's a vacancy in the perfect, frustrating, ageless world of cartooning. Anyone interested?

When mankind isn’t above all else.

Has the digital age resulted in the "pancake" generation losing its sense of history?

Indie films are back and this time around they not only have viewers, but are also the toast of the town. What gives?

Why partying is hard in India.

Summer nights and blazing days leave a trail of memories immortalised by poets and lyricists.

The fallacy of organising a beef festival