S everal Indian cities have had their brush with Art Deco architecture, but none has had the racy, head-over-heels affair that Bombay/Mumbai did. Beginning in the 1930s and lasting till the early ...

In his new book Nalanda, breathtaking in its sweep and lyrical in its glory, the poet-diplomat Abhay K unearths with tender precision the most luminous jewel, nestled amid lush mango groves and ringed ...