5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath On the 75th anniversary, scholars share their favorite work that best explains the trauma of a ...

A strip of lush land at the tip of India where spices grow wild, Kerala has long drawn the gaze of outsiders. Here’s Abraham Verghese’s guide to its literature, which nods at these influences ...

England’s first foray into India, as Nandini Das details in “Courting India,” was far from successful.

India may be facing the greatest famine the world has ever known. Tens of millions are facing possible starvation this year, according to some food distribution experts. Many more millions may ...

M.S. Swaminathan, agricultural scientist who helped feed India, dies at 98 As a mastermind of India’s Green Revolution in the 1960s, he was credited with saving millions of people from starvation ...

'We survived a brutal famine in British India' At least three million people were killed in the 1943 Bengal famine, during World War Two.

What caused the Irish famine? A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County ...

Books can help us access the unspoken grief passed down through famine survivors.

Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in New Delhi, a representative said on Friday, the latest in a series of global cases ...

The book cover is eerily poetic — a solitary vessel with patches of foliage floating on a sea of deep blue scattered with faceless bodies ...

To the House of Commons India Secretary Leopold Stennett Amery, redundant master of officialese, declared last week: “There is no famine [in India] and no widespread prevalence of acute shortage ...

American missionaries, in the hope of securing funds in India for feeding the hungry, portrayed the country as replete with evangelical opportunities and used famine relief efforts to consolidate ...