‘The Wild Robot’ trailer: A stranded droid adopts an orphaned gosling
Chris Sanders’s animated film is based on Peter Brown’s novel. The voice cast includes Pedro Pascal and Lupita Nyong’o. Out in cinemas on September 20.

This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
No foul play in death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager: Police tell Bombay HC
Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate