The V S Naipaul I came to know

Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday. IMAGE: Sir V S Naipaul gives the Nobel lecture at the Old Stock......

Rahul gets bail in RSS defamation case

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was on Wednesday granted bail by a court in Bhiwandi near Thane in a defamation case over his alleged comment against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Mahatma......

PICS: The children of Maharashtra's drought

Undaunted by Sachin Kengar and Yogita Desai's deaths, scores of small children in Maharashtra brave the scorching, unbearable, heat to draw water from unguarded wells. Earlier in the series:......

Mangala Gauri: The 'Women's Only' Festival

In a tiny lane that leads away from Worli Naka, central Mumbai, on a rainy Thursday evening, members of Patil family are busy making last minute preparations for the visarjan (immersion) of Gauri......

PIX: Going back to the theatre

'Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost.' Pandemic or not, the show will go on. And so after months of shutdown, theatres and multiplexes in India are finally opening their doors to moviegoers on October......