Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

In 2019, about 17 per cent of India’s land was officially classified as ‘wasteland’. But many of these are ecologically ...

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, Indian and Indian-origin artists spanning classical, jazz, hip-hop, and pop showcased India’s ...

New research reveals western India's savannas are ancient natural ecosystems. Historical texts from the 13th century describe open, grass-rich landscapes. This challenges the long-held view of these ...

The Sahitya Akademi, under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in collaboration with the Jammu and Kashmir Academy ...

Meera Bhansali has steadily carved a unique space in Indian English poetry, blending myth, psychological inquiry, and the ...

Outlook took a deep dive in the language of Poetry with its 'Poetry as evidence Issue' in which it presented a selection of ...

As the calendar turned to February 2, 2026, marking what would have been the 111th birthday of Khushwant Singh, the silence from his iconic Sujan Singh Park residence feels particularly loud. Singh ...

The Indian sky is full of stories. Whether it is the chirping of sparrows in the temple courtyards or the dancing peacocks in ...

Mamata Banerjee turns to poetry to protest against SIR ...

PLAYS in India often seem to Westerners like pretty long-winded affairs. Well, as a matter of fact, they are. What many Westerners really can’t quite grasp, though, is that Indians like them that way ...

It was Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s sharp-edged prose in Civil Lines: New Writing from India (published by Ravi Dayal) that I ...