Nina martyris
The Bard and us
What would William Shakespeare, whose 400th death anniversary is being marked this year, have made of the manner in which he is referred to in the Indian-English novel?
A brief history of ghee in the US
America's taste for 'clarified butter' predates its love affair with it as a super-food by well over a century
The maligned mango and other clichés writers fear
It has become de rigueur to pan the king of fruit as a falsification of 'colour' in Indian novels. But isn't deliberately squeezing it out just as ridiculous?
The forgotten Indian heroes of World War I
For a country whose role in the First World War is scarcely recognised, it still boggles the mind that, a hundred years ago, a mercenary army of over a million Indians left their farms and jobs to fight in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and on the high seas
Finding Christmas in Books: Calcutta, Little Women, Harry Potter
Few festivals have been as meaningfully captured in literature as Christmas, as you will find in this eclectic selection