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S. Jaishankar examines India's foreign policy since Independence, using the epic Ramayana as the overarching perspective.

The cloaks, the chaos and Claudia Winkleman are all back for a second season of the BBC’s runaway gameshow hit. Resistance is futile – just cancel all your January plans now

The New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is allowed to seek material related to Rushdie’s upcoming memoir about the 2022 attack before standing trial

Camila Batmanghelidjh, who founded the globally renowned, London-based and entirely besmirched — but ultimately exonerated — Kids Company died peacefully on New Year’s Day aged 61. It is my sincere belief that we Londoners will rue the day she suffered what she described to me as her “reputational assassination”, which…

Salman Rushdie was stabbed around 12 times at the Chautauqua Institution after a man rushed on stage

Booking a holiday can alter our brain chemistry for the better

Judge says Hadi Matar, who pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charge after Rushdie was stabbed on stage in 2022, is entitled to see manuscript for trial preparation

Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay the trial of his alleged attacker, which is scheduled to begin next week

Other lives: Author of comic novels and plays who later focused on singing for local blues bands and appearing in amateur dramatics

With its anachronistic fashions, mixed-race lead and synthy score, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Famous Five reboot has been met with the usual moaning by ‘the anti-woke’ brigade. But it also has a zippiness and thrill that was always absent from Enid Blyton’s deeply uncool source material, writes Adam White