Observing that criminal law cannot be used to harass innocent citizens, the Supreme Court on Friday quashed five first information reports filed in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district over alleged mass religious conversions of Hindus to Christianity, PTI reported.A bench of...

My voice isn’t my own, it’s the voice of thousands of Dalits. That’s what Tamil singer, lyricist and poet Dalit Subbaiah declared. Gridaran MKP’s documentary Dalit Subbaiah is a stirring tribute to the artist who died in 2022, to his...

Susan Choi’s Booker-shortlisted sixth novel, Flashlight, first came to life as a short story in The New Yorker in 2020. Appropriately enough for a narrative that found its genesis during the chaos, the isolation, the punishing heartbreak of the Covid...

The Kannada litterateur Chitrashekhar Kanthi once asked me who, in my estimation, was the Kannada writer with the greatest storytelling skills. Twenty-six years ago, my understanding of literature had not grown beyond making judgments on what was good, bad or...

Kerala’s new National Highways are being built in the name of development and progress. They promise to shorten travel time, quicken the flow of goods, and let sleek cars glide from one end of the state to the other. Yet,...