"Pundits" kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research ...

From beaches to hilltops, young people are driving a boom in literary events as they read more in India’s dozens of native languages. The Kerala Literature Festival, held in late January in the beach ...

“Indian dishes… in the highest perfection, and allowed by the greatest epicures to be unequalled to any curries ever made in England.” — Advert for the Hindoostane Coffee House, 'The Times', March ...

Together, Deshpande and Kapoor represent a crucial axis of Indian women’s writing: the exploration of interior worlds ...

In the spring of 1997, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, became an international sensation, marking a watershed moment in a new wave of Indian writing in English. That June, The ...

Whether you lost yourself in the dramas rife in the town of Malgudi over vacations spent watching Malgudi Days or an English ...

Indian diplomats have a long and storied history of contribution to literature, ranging from acclaimed novels to short stories and poetry. India’s ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros, Abhay Kumar — ...