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Book Review: Devapriya Sanyal's account of Salman Khan combines fawning adoration with scholarly interest

In Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend, Devapriya Sanyal picks interesting examples to highlight the contrast between the kind of masculinity that the actor has portrayed on screen and the kind that he has been notorious for in real life.

Lubaina Bandukwala on The Chowpatty Cooking Club, and setting a children's book during Independence movement

"I just tried to capture an innocent desire to be larger than life, which eventually grows into a more evolved understanding of what freedom means, and the enormous cost that thousands were willing to pay for it," says Lubina Bandukwala.

Remembering Sarojini Naidu, the gentle poet and the fiery freedom fighter, on her 73rd death anniversary

Sarojini Naidu used the power of language not only to delight and entertain but also to invigorate and rouse people to action.

Book Review | Jayanta Ghoshal provides detailed coverage of West Bengal Assembly Election in Mamata Beyond 2021

Jayanta Ghosal’s vivid understanding of India, its cultural diversity, and the knowledge of the RSS ideology as a journalist are visible from the way he has differentiated between Bengal’s faith in Hindu religion and RSS' idea of Hindutva.

Book Review | In The Gutsy Girls of Science, Class 11 student Ilina Singh celebrates women scientists who paved the way

Ilina Singh adopts a friendly, conversational tone to ask her readers if they would like to consider a career in the fields that each of these women chose to work in. Her writing style is in in tune with what her peers would enjoy.

Know Your Classical Dances: Mohiniyattam, once thrust into obscurity during British rule, revived in early 20th century

From being categorised as a dance of the vaishya or the prostitute to receiving recognition as a prolific art form and a codification into the realm of the ‘classical,’ Mohiniyattam has perhaps been one of the few dance styles to have undergone such humongous shifts through history.

Samir Soni’s My Experiments with Silence is about placing faith in one’s capacity to introspect and heal oneself

My Experiments with Silence: The Diary of An Introvert is primarily a collection of diary entries, poems, and personal essays written by Samir Soni.

Inside the lesser known tradition of Punjab's classical music, from Harballabh music festival to the Patiala gharana

The widespread public misconception that Punjab has not much to offer in classical art traditions is so far from the truth. A robust and flourishing classical music scene is part of this state’s past and present.

With Love Longing Loss, Rekhta founder Sanjiv Saraf attempts to make Urdu couplets and ghazals accessible

Love Longing Loss aims to connect with young readers who may not fully understand Urdu but appreciate its beauty to touch those deep dark corners of the heart that are left bruised and tender by some or the other incident in life.

Tusshar Kapoor on turning author with Bachelor Dad: ‘Doing more challenging things after becoming a father’

In his debut book Bachelor Dad, Tusshar Kapoor writes about his journey to fatherhood, all that it takes to have a child outside of marriage via surrogacy in India, and more

Britney Spears inks deal with Simon & Schuster for tell-all memoir months after conservatorship ends

Simon & Schuster secured the deal for Britney Spears' memoir after a massive bidding war involving multiple publishers

Book Review | Administrator Ratnakar Shetty traces Indian cricket's highs and lows in On Board: My Years with the BCCI

Young Indian fans ready to deride the ‘bullying’ and financial clout of today’s BCCI would do well to read the account of where India has come from to emerge as a global cricketing financial powerhouse today.

Know Your Classical Dances: How Kathak has historically served as a medium of storytelling that cuts across classes

Throughout history, quite unlike most classical art forms, Kathak has seldom been performed as an offering to a deity, instead from its earliest stages, it has been a recital directed at an audience comprising its patrons as well as the common people.

It's a gentleman's world: A deep dive into why there are such few women umpires in cricket

While there is much needed social media outcry on the growth of women’s cricket worldwide, there is no focus on the need for more women in umpiring. As my conversations with umpires across the spectrum over the past weeks revealed, there should be.

'People should interpret my art in different ways, my works make them pause and reflect': Artist Michelle Poonawalla

'I was inspired by the universe and the butterfly effect. One small action can cause a ripple effect and bring about change,' says Michelle Poonawalla.

Book review: Where the Gods Dwell, anthology on South Asia temples, artfully blurs the lines between history and mythology

Where The Gods Dwell is a collection of 13 essays that promise to offer "an intriguing mix of historical detail, mythological narrative, and architectural commentary, supplementing, and complementing each other to tell a story that is more than the sum of its parts."

Book review: In Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, Brian Cox channels the acerbic voice that got him popular on Succession

Brian Cox, who plays Logan Roy on Succession, admits to having made poor choices, and rather refreshingly does not restrain the smell of regret from escaping the pages.

Living Art | Nishad Avari, Christie's Specialist, discusses reasons behind increasing prices of Jehangir Sabavala's works

"Jehangir Sabavala was one of the few modern Indian artists to extensively document his oeuvre. This has made his work more accessible to collectors around the world," says Nishad Avari, Head of Sale and Associate Vice President, South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art.

Kannada poet Chennaveera Kanavi passes away at 94; all you need to know about the 'Samanvaya Kavi'

The litterateur had won the Sahitya Akademi award for his book 'Jeevadhwani'

It's a pet's life: The Book of Dog and Cat People are heartening accounts of fur babies and their pet parents

In the pages of both books, I found people who laughed at their pets’ silly antics, shed tears when they fell sick, indulged in their every whim, wrote them poetry, and treated them better than they did themselves.

Reading Raymond Carver: This is what we talk about when we talk about love — and loneliness

What began as a minor reflection of the spectacular institution that love and marriage are — at least that is how I thought of it back then — ended up being a grand reveal of all that was so magnificently broken.

Valentine's Day 2022: Read these six Indian books on queer fiction, from The Other Man to Ritu Weds Chandni

These queer books will compel you to reexamine your definition of love. They will pull the rug from under your feet. They will hold up a mirror and wink at you.

Meghna Pant on new book Boys Don’t Cry: ‘Women are not rehabilitation centers for men’

Meghna Pant’s latest offering is a true story with a clincher of an ending that, she says, every woman deserves. It’s a rule book to help girls on the matters of heart and head. A peek into the closed doors of a modern Indian marriage, it’s a conversation on mental health that every family should have.

Shweta Ganesh Kumar's At Home puts spotlight on children’s experiences in times of lockdowns and social distancing

“We wanted a book around the pandemic that just spoke normally about what children were going through and what they missed the most," says Editor Shinibali Mitra Saigal.

Inclusion rider, a contract provision once emboldened by Frances McDormand, enters the realm of fashion

Fashion’s embrace of the rider also comes in the aftermath of a racial reckoning in the industry, which inspired several new organisations devoted to elevating Black voices and holding accountable a business long criticised for treating diversity like a trend.