Words do not just ‘name’ phenomena; on occasion, they also plumb the depths of history and map t

Sir — He likes his drink shaken, not stirred, but James Bond has his audience both shaken and stir

My great grandfather, a rigidly casteist South Indian Brahmin who lived in Mysore, was finicky about

Neer is the Bengali word for home. It is also the word for bird’s nest. A magazine by the same nam

In the early 1990s D.R. Nagaraj published The Flaming Feet, a compilation of his essays in which he

The Congress government in Rajasthan on Thursday arrested seven persons on the charge of torturing t

A Scheduled Caste couple in Uttar Pradesh who had just got married and wanted to pray at a village t

The BJP-led Centre was on Monday non-committal on legislative or judicial measures to address the co

In an interview that he gave last year, the Kannada writer (and activist), Devanur Mahadeva, urged d

A special court in Telangana on Thursday sentenced three men to death for raping and murdering a Dal