Read At Home
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World Book Day reading: The end of a strange love affair in Mumbai
‘The Sea Sings at Night’, by Mimi Mondal, from ‘The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction’, edited by Tarun K Saint.
Mimi Mondal
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World Book Day reading: How Farzana turned into Begum Samru, a dealmaker in the Mughal court
An excerpt from ‘The Women Who Ruled India: Leaders. Warriors. Icons’, by Archana Garodia Gupta.
Archana Garodia Gupta
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Read at home: Mohammed Hanif’s stunning debut was a mordant satire on a Pakistani dictator’s death
‘Yes, sir, I was the one who got away.’
Hanif Mohammed
Trending
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Pakistani YouTubers to release a Pashto version of blockbuster Turkish show ‘Dirilis: Ertugrul’
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India’s Covid-19 crisis is a product of the paranoid governance that has marked the past seven years
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How grave is India’s oxygen emergency? Worse than the government admits
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The secrets behind ‘Geeli Pucchi’, the most loved film in ‘Ajeeb Daastaans’
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How Kabir Bedi interviewed The Beatles in 1966 (and asked John Lennon if he took drugs)
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Read at home: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s novel ‘Bhaunri’
‘I grew curious too and wondered how things panned out after that rather cataclysmic ending.’
Anukrti Upadhyay
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Read at home: A poignant scene between a father and a daughter in Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction
An excerpt from ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Read at home: Life and love under a lockdown in and around an Andaman prison during the British raj
An excerpt from ‘The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali’, a novel by Uzma Aslam Khan.
Uzma Aslam Khan
Video
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Covid-19 crisis: Death, despair rages across India, healthcare facilities fail to cater to patients
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‘Remdesivir is no Ram baan’: Medanta Hospital chairman says the drug isn’t for all Covid-19 patients
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‘We’re supposed to give life’: Delhi hospital CEO breaks down talking about Covid-19 oxygen crisis
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Watch: Man sits outside Delhi hospital with own oxygen cylinder after being refused admission
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Watch: ‘Farmers did not stop us’, driver of vehicle carrying oxygen to Delhi hospital clarifies
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As Uddhav Thackeray pilots Maharashtra through Covid-19, a look at how he changed the Shiv Sena once
An except from ‘The Cousins Thackeray: Uddhav, Raj And The Shadow Of Their Senas’, by Dhaval Kulkarni.
Dhaval Kulkarni
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Read at home: In search of the man who called himself the Amitabh Bachchan of Alaska
An excerpt from ‘Searching For Home: Stories Of Indians Living Abroad’, by Simran Chawla.
Simran Chawla
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Read at home: In this fantasy story, ‘Death’ visits a young woman who has accosted him in the past
An excerpt from the story The Girl Who Haunted Death by Nikita Deshpande, from ‘Magical Women’, edited by Sukanya Venkatraghavan.
Nikita Deshpande
The Reel
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‘Here Today’ trailer: Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal in comedy about an unlikely friendship
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Watch: ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ is a sequel to the previous two movies
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‘Searching For Sheela’ review: A quest that goes nowhere (and probably never intended to)
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‘Oxygen’ trailer: A woman fights to survive before her breath runs out
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‘Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai’ trailer: Salman Khan wages a war on drugs
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Read at home: How this venture capital company missed the chance to invest in BookMyShow
In this excerpt from ‘The Moonshot Game: Adventures of an Indian Venture Capitalist’, Rahul Chandra recounts an investment his company regretted not making.
Rahul Chandra
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Read at home: After the apocalypse, a woman meets a man. Sparks might fly
An excerpt from ‘Contingency Plans For The Apocalypse And Other Possible Situations’, by SB Divya.
SB Divya
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Read at home: Meet Amma Bi and Jumman in this short story by actor Pankaj Kapur
An excerpt from ‘Dopehri’ by Pankaj Kapur, translated from the Hindustani by Rahul Soni.
Pankaj Kapur
The Field
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IPL 2021, RR v RCB: Padikkal, bowlers make it four wins on the trot for Kohli’s team
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‘Genuine class’, ‘Masterful’: Reactions to Devdutt Padikkal’s superb century in RCB’s win over RR
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IPL 2021: RCB captain Virat Kohli becomes first player to hit 6,000 runs in Indian Premier League
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Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer T Natarajan might miss rest of IPL 2021 due to knee injury: Report
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Watch: ‘Just looking at people is making me happy’ – Axar Patel returns to Delhi Capitals’ bubble