“So, you’re travelling 600 km in the hope of meeting someone who doesn’t really want to see you?” A friend’s question comes back to me as...

No reporter has followed the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case like Avirook Sen has. In his best-selling book Aarushi and a series of reports...

Behind the success of many farmers across 75 countries as varied as the US, India and Yugoslavia is a woman from Chennai. Mallika...

He has hovered around in the background while you were at the nearest nightclub (Dhan Te Nan) or at the crossroads, worrying about your...

Late last year, actor Parvathy went where no young female actor is supposed to go - She expressed an opinion. At the IFFK, Parvathy made...

Author Kiran Nagarkar frequently tells me he's 900 years old. I don't bother to verify, but I'm glad that for a man who feels 900, he...

"The left wing and the feminists attack you if you say good things about Ram. The right wing attacks if you say bad things about Ram....

A primer on the formation of Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) and why the ramifications of the case against actor Dileep go beyond...

Ali Sethi, 25, is nursing a wound when I meet him at his hotel in Chennai. The Pakistani writer isn't sure how or when he hurt his toe....

In football-crazy Kannur district, goal scoring doesn't always refer to a triumph on the pitch. The term is also a euphemism for the...

Blouses that hide bruises. A flowing skirt that blends with the wilderness. Shirts and sweaters whose fit and colours keep pace with a...

The face that launched a thousand inane questions -- Being a woman, Anjali found society was more interested in her personal life than in...

As a reporter, Sonia Faleiro walked the extra mile to tell the "unseen" stories of people we find so convenient to forget or dismiss as...

Does it matter how much money you have if the air in your country is killing you? How does it benefit India if farmers are compelled to...

It's the middle of the night and I'm sandwiched between two slices of history - a 1306 AD temple and a 1620 AD fort. And I just can't...

Who killed whom and why? It seems no one wants to know just that any more. The murder novel has evolved beyond answering simplistic...

The bullies from Kozhikode haven't just stopped Kerala scholar Dr MM Basheer from publishing an essay on the Ramayana. The Hanuman Sena's...

For Ian Rankin, it was never enough to know who killed whom and why. Not even when he was 11. The best-selling crime fiction writer does...

He is often referred to as India's best playback singer. But Sonu Niigaam, 35, says his sole agenda in life is to die a happy man -- not...

2009 interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, author of Red Sun