My school’s taking me to the UN

A bored stroll through a local science centre to stargaze has been replaced by a Power Point presentation after watching a spacecraft docked at NASA. Anuradha Varma reports on school field trips going snazzy.

Spiritual lesson from a convict

Deepak Chopra is constantly learning. His last lesson was from a prisoner's character in an American TV thriller.

‘Ashoka was no Shah Rukh Khan!’

Emperor Ashoka was a stubby man, who as a prince, visited a site in Odisha with his girlfriend. Writer Charles Allen discusses little-known nuggets about the king who made Buddhism world-famous, with Anuradha Varma.

The cats want a revolution

The second annual Indian comic convention held recently at New Delhi's Dilli Haat saw the birth of a hero, who borrows a bit from Garfield, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Kung Fu Panda.

 

Mumbai-based illustrator Abhijeet Kini's latest graphic novel, Chairman Meow and the Protectors of the Proletariat is a witty collaboration with writer Anant Singh.

Banned works at a computer near you

Ashwin Kumar

Twenty-four hours after Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar uploaded his latest film, Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror, he struck 50,000 views.

Sanjay Kak: Practice Free Speech and Fearless Listening

The Pune University may have cancelled the screening of Sanjay Kak's film Jashn-e-Azadiafter the rightwing ABVP protested, put the film is available for viewing online. The filmmaker talks about bypassing the censors and putting his film in the public realm.

Off with her tee!

After the Indian embassy in Kiev opened criminal proceedings against a Ukranian group of topless feminist protesters, activist Inna Shevchenko questions India's notion of freedom, in a chat with Anuradha Varma.

Muslim, American, female, and in love

Anuradha Varma chats with Nura Maznavi on what it took to gather 24 portraits of the private love lives of feisty American Muslim women.

Meet the husbands!

Javed Anand

Javed Anand, journalist-activist — Married to Teesta Setalvad, Mumbai-based civil rights activist and co-editor, Communalism Combat

India’s most desirable: Going back to an empty home

Author Ravinder Singh

With India standing among three of the world's fastest-growing populations of single people, one-person households are catching on. The Internet, fat salaries and a new differentiation between being alone and lonely, are making privacy the most-desired commodity, says Anuradha Varma.