Shalini Umachandran

What if a family could include anyone, and we didn't have to imagine the family unit as the one recognized by law, imagined by cinema and art, and celebrated by books? Lounge finds out

New Delhi, July 18 -- It would take a philosopher or an academic to explain this more fully but the ancient Greeks had separate words and categories

For hilsa, a fish that swims upstream from the sea to lay its eggs during the monsoon, any change in climate patterns affects its behaviour, size, spawning, and once it's on the plate, its taste

From the vocabulary of protest art to learning languages through food shows, there's a variety of stories to read in Lounge this weekend

Over the past few years, books and films have followed emotional journeys to Pakistan, where the protagonists visit a country that’s usually the foe in order to make peace with their past or understand the way forward

For our 15 August issue, we asked Gen Z what Independence Day means to them. Much like the hundreds of thousands of young people who resisted the British decades ago, Gen Z wants the freedom to live without fear.

The Goa government is actively promoting sports events, but the intent is to maximise revenue that comes from hosting large-scale events rather than nurturing sports itself

For Gulzar, now 92, Mumbai is a partner as much as a home, they city in which he arrived as a teenager, pottered about as a young man, and built a life as one of India's most respected poets, writers, lyricists and filmmakers

Floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures are impacting the raw materials needed for craft, endangering the production of the abundance of beautiful, handworked items India makes, from kitchen implements to saris

Travellers are not going off the grid or disconnecting entirely, but they're leaving phones behind and doing things the old way—asking for