As you and your friends enjoy a good talk at a restaurant, they unintentionally interrupt by requesting to pass the salt. Seems like a distraction, right? The Chinese understood the assignment and designed a rotating, circular tray, usually made of wood, that was placed on a table so that people could have access to different foods with no break in the flow of the conversation. This table goes by its name, Lazy Susan.

The essays in this volume give us a sense of the milieu from which the Urdu writer drew inspiration for her fiction

The poet offers up the quotidian and the quirky in equal measure in her second book of poems

Using his characteristic wry humour,author Percival Everett reimagines Mark TwainsHuckleberry Finnand delivers a powerful new novel

Meet the members part of the only all-girls parai group in Tamil Nadu. These students from a school in Besant Nagar drums up a beat that is impossible to resist

Sudhir Kakar, hailed for his originality and insight into the Indian psyche, passed away on April 22 at the age of 86

The poet and author on tokenistic queer narratives and the self-censorship directed towards gay stories

On the occasion of Mahashivaratri, revisiting ancient temples in Tamil Nadu that turned into a stage for the Lord.