A gentler kind of romance
New Indian Expressby Reya Mehrotra13 Sept 2026
Preeti Shenoy’s fiction is a literary detox from the messiness of our lives. Her romance stories are grounded in recognisable emotions, but remain relatively uncomplicated.
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top 51%The emperor of controversies
New Indian Expressby Madhulika Liddle13 Sept 2026
In an India where the Mughals are getting written out of textbooks, there is no Mughal more controversial than Aurangzeb.
I will not compromise on the scale: Nikkhil Advani
New Indian Expressby Puja Talwar13 Sept 2026
Period dramas have lately become something of a signature for Nikkhil Advani, from The Empire to Freedom at Midnight.
Backward to the Future
New Indian Expressby Tanisha Saxena13 Sept 2026
The tide decide almost everything on Sagar Island: when the ferry runs, when supplies arrive and when teachers can reach school.
The Future Will Judge Our Civilisation
New Indian Expressby Ajai Sahni13 Sept 2026
There is something profoundly perverse in contemporary politics: those who shout loudest about defending civilisation and culture are those whose conduct is most conspicuously divorced from both.
Sticking to the script
New Indian Expressby Pallabi Dey Purkayastha13 Sept 2026
For Shweta Tripathi, a good script is all that matters. It does not matter whether she is acting in it, producing it, or both; if a story moves her, she wants to be part of it.
Politics Requires the Art of Knowing
New Indian Expressby Debashis Chatterjee13 Sept 2026
Last weekend, I had the privilege of leading a retreat for the Kerala Cabinet and the newly elected Chief Minister.
OTT review | Babita Singh Reporting
New Indian Expressby Tej Prakash Bhardwaj13 Sept 2026
Babita Singh Reporting may look like a crime thriller in the beginning, but its real subject is a woman who has spent much of her life saying yes.
Why No Bail For Umar Khalid is Not Judicial Bias
New Indian Expressby Ravi Shankar13 Sept 2026
The paradox of political debate is that any contrary argument produces an alternate echo chamber.
Change Within to Change the Country
New Indian Expressby Mata Amritanandamayi13 Sept 2026
Children, consider the present situation of our country. How many problems bedevil us! Poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, social conflict, new diseases, increasing suicides, corruption, lethargy...
In the Beginning was the Word
New Indian Expressby Aparna Nair13 Sept 2026
A few kilometres from Thiruvananthapuram, a cluster of stone forms offers a striking expression of an ancient idea, that sound is the fundamental architect of the reality we see.
Caught in the Current
New Indian Expressby Bindu Gopal Rao13 Sept 2026
Afew minutes into our boat safari, a tiny blob breaks the stillness of the Kabini River, “That’s a smooth-coated otter,” whispers Chamaraj, a naturalist at The Serai Kabini.
Love Always Gives, Never Takes
New Indian Expressby Gaurav Yadav13 Sept 2026
Once, a king went to the forest to hunt. There he met a rishi—a sage. The king talked to the rishi at length and was very impressed by him. He said, ‘Please visit my capital.
Benne There, Done That
New Indian Expressby Samiya Chopra13 Sept 2026
After a long evening of cricket coaching in Bengaluru, Akhil Iyer, then a teenager, would make his way to a darshini—the city’s quintessential quick-service eateries.
In the Eyes of the Beholder
New Indian Expressby Medha Dutta Yadav13 Sept 2026
For more than three decades, Irish photographer Seamus Murphy has travelled through some of the world’s most politically charged places, from Afghanistan and Ireland to India, Russia, and America.
Hoard Drive
New Indian Expressby Shalaka Kulkarni13 Sept 2026
Open your phone and you’ll find an archive of good intentions. You’ll notice hundreds of bookmarked articles, a fully choked folder of photos, and saved reels you swear you will watch eventually.
Chefchaouen’s Got the Blues
New Indian Expressby Anushka Patodia13 Sept 2026
You see the blue before you reach Chefchaouen. As the road climbs into Morocco’s Rif Mountains, the town appears folded into the slopes, its blue-and-white houses gathered against the hills like...
How do We Bring India’s Voices Home?
New Indian Expressby Dr Vikram Sampath13 Sept 2026
On a frosty, winter afternoon in 2010, I found myself inside an archive in Berlin, surrounded by boxes and cabinets containing shellac discs more than a century old.
Heart Break
New Indian Expressby Toufiq Rashid13 Sept 2026
An invisible scourge is haunting India, its dark shadow already beginning to the spread across the most vulnerable of all: children. And the menace is childhood heart disease.
Engineer, marketing planner, content editor: India’s teqball crew at 2026 Asian Games
New Indian Expressby Gomesh S13 Sept 2026
CHENNAI: The name doesn't ring a bell at all nor there any trailblazing tales. Teqball it is. And the game is part of the Asian Games to be held in Nagoya from September 19 to October 4.