What growing up with two abusive men taught me about the #MeToo movement in India

Witnessing my father and grandfather’s acts of violence filled me with an inchoate rage and internal chaos that have never completely left me.

Vikram Zutshi

· 9 hours ago

An all-women collective is pushing comedy boundaries in Ahmedabad with their stand-up

From acche din to contraceptive pills, Shefali Pandey and Preeti Das’ comedy sets are as much about the political as they are about the personal.

Khushboo Chawla Ramnane

· Jul 13, 2019 · 11:30 am

Many Indians are deciding not to bring children into this overpopulated, unkind world

In urban India, couples are staying child-free to avoid further burdening the planet.

Reem Khokhar

· Jul 23, 2018 · 11:30 am

The Bengali artist who popularised the ‘wet sari effect’ and invented a new genre of figure painting

Through his intimate works, Hemen Mazumdar changed the way women were depicted in Indian art.

Partha Mitter

· Feb 06, 2019 · 11:30 am

Remembering the Indian violin virtuoso who drew praise even from Yehudi Menuhin

Philomena Thumboochetty gathered laurels and accolades early in life. So why didn’t her career have the same longevity as her peers’?

Priya Chaturvedi

· Jul 10, 2019 · 11:30 am

Mumbai’s staggering inequality comes into clear focus in an American photographer’s drone images

The photographs are part of Johnny Miller’s ‘Unequal Scenes’ project, in which he documents class disparity across the world.

Soumya Rao

· Sep 19, 2018 · 11:30 am

Ambedkar in South Africa: With a new installation, Riyas Komu creates an archive of resistance, hope

The artist’s new work ‘Fourth World’ at the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg brings together the politics of the word, history and symbolism.

Dilip M. Menon

· Jun 23, 2019 · 11:30 am

Peter Cat Recording Co. talk about their new album – and that video with Modi’s note ban speech

One of India’s top independent acts clears the air.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Jul 06, 2019 · 11:30 am

In India, children as young as three are being taught to write computer code

Many parents across the nation want their children to learn how to create the very technologies that they are dependent on.

Parul Agrawal

· Jul 03, 2019 · 11:30 am

Life after Lola Kutty: Anuradha Menon talks stand-up comedy and why Channel V’s demise was expected

Anuradha Menon’s dreams of being a theatre star led to a seven-year stint as the madcap Lola Kutty. Now she is back with a standup special, ‘Wonder Menon’.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Jun 19, 2019 · 11:30 am

Did England’s King Alfred the Great send two envoys to Christian shrines in India in 9th century?

A passage in the ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ has long been the subject of intrigue. Could it have been true? And what does it tell us about Christianity in India?

Caitlin R Green

· Jun 26, 2019 · 11:30 am

Meet the ‘urban nostalgists’ of Kolkata who are saving its architecture – one old building at a time

For every ten historic structures that fall to the real estate juggernaut, there is at least one that is being preserved by entrepreneurs.

Chandrima Pal

· Jun 10, 2019 · 11:30 am