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“His Majesty Jalal al-Din Muhammad Akbar Padshah commanded,” so records Bayazid Bayat in 1587, “that any servants of court who had a taste for history should write.” His favourite aunt, Gulbad...

The new generation of audiences evidently values content over star quotient and acting over socially approved “good” looks. Probably that is the reason why we have stars like Ayushmann Khurrana, R...

These are fraught times. Interestingly, the Constitution has become a powerful emblem of protest. Perceived as the ultimate saviour, “We, the people of India” have embraced it in a remarkable show...

In the first quarter of the 20th century, perhaps no other wedding gained so much attention as that of Lord Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley. The marriage of Queen Victoria’s grandson on Tuesday,...

Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and his Last Muse by Andrea di Robilant, AtlanticAndrea di Robilant explores how Ernest Hemingway’s works drew on his own experiences and interactions with people ...

When I won it for the first time (a World Championship), it was a big weight off my shoulder. But strangely enough, it was the first time I experienced how empty you can feel after you have won someth...

Bollywood Bad Man, Gulshan Grover, who has lasted more than four decades in Bollywood and Hollywood, recently released his biography. Bad Man, the biography, he says is to inspire people and youngster...

Works of literature are often shaped as much by their authors’ intentions as the times in which they are produced. Curiously, Thomas Hardy’s works have remained relevant through the ages. Critics ...

A journalist-turned-social entrepreneur has started working on the biography of a tea garden worker who tuned his two-wheeler into an “ambulance” to hospitalise patients in remote areas of the Doo...