When my mother danced for Chou Enlai and the Dalai Lama

No one on that glittery occasion could possibly have imagined that the Chinese were conspiring to invade India, nor could anyone have predicted that the seemingly benign Dalai Lama was plotting to......

Sheena Bora Trial: 'I suspected murder'

Many pictures showed The Skeleton Named Sheena.For the purpose of the photographs, the skeleton had been re-assembled and looked straight at the camera.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the......

'India was never, ever homophobic'

'Societal acceptance is the surround-sound of the socio-economic political compass that we live in. This is the first step.' IMAGE: LGBT activists celebrate the Supreme Court verdict striking down......

Give us our gods back!

Shashi Tharoor says the British Museum should change its name to Chor Bazaar because whatever it has within its portals is the result of 200 years of theft.The museum is once again in the eye of a......

Hope Aur Hum Review: A winsome slice of family life

Hope Aur Hum never strays into complicated territory and sticks to its gentle celebration of everyday highs and lows, says Sukanya Verma. There's a crack, a crack in everything.That's how the......