An excerpt from ‘Earth and Embers: South Asia in Verse’, edited by Rachel Bari, Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry, Shweta Rao Garg, and Prem Kumar.

If you thought Chetan Bhagat was bad for Indian literature, wait till you hear about what’s happening now.

On paper, India appears resilient. But the headline indicators conceal deeper structural weaknesses.

Biology still sets upper limits of performance but are we providing women with the training and resources to maximise their potential?

Legislative privilege was adapted from the British legal system but remains undefined with the Indian Parliament reluctant to enact a law specifying its limits.

Edited by Semeen Ali and Priyanka Sarkar, the collection features pieces that also see loneliness as freedom and a fount of creativity.

The book also refreshingly reveals the significant role played by the women of founder Desh Bandhu Gupta’s family in shaping the business.

New Delhi’s ‘reset’ in ties is actually submitting to Beijing after the armed combat between soldiers from both sides in June 2020, says scholar Jabin Jacob.

The eight-episode Hindi series will be out on April 17 on Prime Video.

At the opening of Olivia Fraser’s painting exhibition, a performance by poet-dancer Tishani Doshi and others enacted the interdependence of various art forms.