Culture

All this month, we will read and discuss the Korean author’s debut novel—a dystopian sci-fi set in the future in a unified Korea where robots and humans coexist

In ‘Deviants’, author Santanu Bhattacharya, through the life and times of three gay men, looks at how India’s attitude towards queerness has changed over the years

The film director on WhatsApp news, golden-hour shoots, and the disturbing true events that inspired his debut

In just two years, Dubai’s genre-fluid collective Stick No Bills has found a sound that can define South Asian diaspora

Say hello to chaotic tech bros, small-town scandals, and family drama with a side of confusion

With their music label Naya Beat Records, Raghav Mani and Filip Nikolic hope to give forgotten songs—and the people who made them—a much-deserved spotlight

Shweta Tripathi brings to the stage ‘Cock’, the Mike Bartlett play armed with queer joy, chaotic love, and zero patience for labels

Bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud has a novel cure for every type of literary and non-literary ailment

Once dismissed as button-mashing escapism, video games are now giving us some of the most watchable, reach-for-the-tissue-box television

As the first woman director of AIIMS, Dr Sneh Bhargava has seen it all. Now, at 95, she tells it all in her new memoir

For more than half her life she’s been acting. Now, at 44, the Bollywood star is re-evaluating and setting her own pace

From moody mysteries and messy sisters to Carrie’s couture and a car-loving cabbie—this week’s lineup is high on drama