It’s hosting season—when homes glow warmer, doors stay open longer, and the table takes centre stage. From intimate winter gatherings to glittering Christmas di ...

There are two things I remember distinctively in my great grandmother’s house—a red oxide floor, gleaming like water, cool and unmarred by tile-style boundaries ...

Traditionally, every Chettiar home once had a pettagam—a weighty iron chest that held not just jewels, but clothes, and what-have-you. Now Pettagam, the newly o ...

V Lakshman’s story begins with a word: house, which he spelt correctly. It was during admission to an English-medium school, something the teacher opposed becau ...

Goa gleams like a jewel in the Arabian Sea, its sun-drenched beaches whispering promises of escape, where azure waves cradle barefoot dreams and the air hums wi ...

At first glance, they look like cities caught mid-air—towers hovering above cracked earth, staircases leading nowhere, bridges that seem to levitate. But linger ...

Lionel Messi didn’t leave Kolkata early because of heat, fatigue, or scheduling issues. He left because admiration in India has a habit of curdling into mob own ...

I was out with a group of friends last weekend. We’d gone to a restaurant where a friend’s husband, always extrovertish, chatted with the security guard, the ba ...

At six, standing on tiptoes behind a podium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Anirudh Rao explained how he planned to “control wind.” The idea, he tol ...

Written by Fauzia Rafique and translated from Punjabi by Haider Shahbaz, Keeru carries within it an unusually long and wandering gestation. Rafique first began ...

Children, we are always gripped by the fear of something or the other, and this is killing us every minute. Fear haunts us whether we are awake or asleep. We ar ...

At dusk, the Ellora Caves shift from monument to moment. Against the rock-hewn immensity of the Kailasa Temple, a dance unfolds in an open, amphitheatre-like co ...