No reporter has followed the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case like Avirook Sen has. In his best-selling book Aarushi and a series of reports...

Behind the success of many farmers across 75 countries as varied as the US, India and Yugoslavia is a woman from Chennai. Mallika...

Late last year, actor Parvathy went where no young female actor is supposed to go - She expressed an opinion. At the IFFK, Parvathy made...

Author Kiran Nagarkar frequently tells me he's 900 years old. I don't bother to verify, but I'm glad that for a man who feels 900, he...

"The left wing and the feminists attack you if you say good things about Ram. The right wing attacks if you say bad things about Ram....

Ali Sethi, 25, is nursing a wound when I meet him at his hotel in Chennai. The Pakistani writer isn't sure how or when he hurt his toe....

In football-crazy Kannur district, goal scoring doesn't always refer to a triumph on the pitch. The term is also a euphemism for the...

Blouses that hide bruises. A flowing skirt that blends with the wilderness. Shirts and sweaters whose fit and colours keep pace with a...

The face that launched a thousand inane questions -- Being a woman, Anjali found society was more interested in her personal life than in...

As a reporter, Sonia Faleiro walked the extra mile to tell the "unseen" stories of people we find so convenient to forget or dismiss as...

Does it matter how much money you have if the air in your country is killing you? How does it benefit India if farmers are compelled to...

For Ian Rankin, it was never enough to know who killed whom and why. Not even when he was 11. The best-selling crime fiction writer does...

He is often referred to as India's best playback singer. But Sonu Niigaam, 35, says his sole agenda in life is to die a happy man -- not...

2009 interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, author of Red Sun

He has followed the blood-soaked journey of a tuna fish from the Indian Ocean in the Maldives to a dinner table in London for his book,...