Weekend Reads

France's and, indeed, Europe's, unemployment crisis is the backdrop against which this drama plays out

Where, my son, lolling in front of the television, says, 'You have had yourself a Sunday break, Dad, won't you cook us something nice for dinner?'

Building trust and confidence becomes all the more important in such uncertain times

Three months after it broke down, the solar system was re-plugged, and the caretaker called to say we now have power at the cottage

Patangarh is a village of artists which owes its artistic legacy to the great Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam

Gaav inspires reflection on widely held, and poorly judged, ideas of what it is to be and appear and behave 'human'

The lockdown has been hard on Ghorai and her community

Queer artist and designer Param Sahib deconstructs tropes of toxic masculinity with style, says Amrita Singh

Paying attention to words thoughtfully chosen for the intertitles, and observing the actors' purposefully exaggerated moods, is really a high form of meditation

His docuseries puts India's migrant debacle into sharp focus, writes Nikita Puri

In this screen fantasy, as also in life, the strange new circumstances put human nature to the test

I found refuge in the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011

Kipping used the statistical tools of Bayesian Inference to see if life should exist on Earth

The hidden history of hundreds of Indian nannies who sailed to England for work from the 18th to early 20th centuries is finally being pieced together, finds Ranjita Ganesan

There appears to be a sudden outbreak of good behaviour

In plots that are otherwise skilfully immersive, Larrain always leaves in some extraneous, even contrived, sequences that make you come up for air

The first few episodes breezily capture the dreams of young aspirants and the sordid measures needed to survive in the pernicious environs of tinsel town

The fundraising initiative was created in solidarity with a nation that has fired the imagination of the global photography community for decades

Kishore Singh on the life and art of Zarina, the reclusive artist who died this week in New York aged 83

Scientists have been trying to stop Vaan Island in the Gulf of Mannar from disappearing. Their success means hope for other such threatened islands.