Shruti Ravindran

India sees an explosion in culinary writing: an epicure’s paradise awaits

Auto drivers, bus drivers, cabbies get a quick souse in good manners

Has the city lost its priorities in the rush for cosmetic nirvana?

Online classical lessons have restored the guru-shishya harmony across continents

Is the Republic Day parade conceptually too frozen in the ’50s?

The Sarus crane finds an unlikely haven—in western UP

Pale ghosts from India as it was a century ago; their preternaturalness further enhanced by their clear, startlingly true colour.

Delhi draws a curtain on slums and beggars

Too many people equate organic food with patchouli-scented pot-smokers listening to Pete Seeger and talking tearfully of our crimes against Mother Earth...

Collectors are sharing their often idiosyncratic visions with others in private museums

'...that hide the fact that we belong and do not belong in different ways, and that this difference often has to do with our privileges. Why is it that an Indian speaking English is seen as 'hybrid' in some post-colonial circles, but not a Marathi sp