DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have two friends I see frequently, but they rarely see each other. When we all get together, inevitably one will start telling the other a story I have heard many times. Then the ...

History is fiction in retrospect. The fact of India’s independence struggle is indisputable. But there are many readings—and they vary. As years go by, the versions multiply. And history begins to ...

In what is described as the Bible’s Book of Acts explosively reimagined in an alternate-modern era, “Testament” spreads the gospel in a new way to a new generation. This authentic portrayal provides a ...

The book was recently launched at the Goethe Institut, Chennai, in association with the Prakriti Foundation, where the writer- academician engaged in a conversation with theatre artiste V Balakrishna, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic. By Sopan Deb ...

The household folklore of the Legend of the White Snake has a Cantonese Opera film, which uses a Chinese ink-painting-inspired cinematic approach in retelling the timeless love story. PHOTO PROVIDED ...

The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American ...

Loosely based on Jane Austen’s most explicitly political and critically controversial novel, “Mansfield Park,” Nikki May’s “This Motherless Land” explores clashes of custom and class in a contentious ...

She says her "Rama: A Man of Dharma" aims to view the story in the proper perspective vis-a-vis its stated purpose. "Rama is an exemplar of the lessons in the Upanishads. I wrote the book to portray ...

It’s been 19 years since the first Twilight book hit shelves and 16 years since its first film adaptation. Now, its’s time for the franchise’s star vampire to share his perspective. Netflix announced ...

Late 1990s, Barcelona: a new student looks about Edifici Jaume I of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra for an art theory seminar to be taught in Spanish rather than Catalan. “On és l’aula 302?” he asks a ...