Giving up mirrors for 31 days gave Sonali Kokra the time and space to reflect upon and reclaim her life. What began as an experiment in self imagery turned out to be an unexpectedly radical act of self love

More than three decades after it was written, Penguin publishes the ‘thinking woman’s Fifty Shades’. But it fails to live up to its reputation

A video project by American artist Clayton Cubitt explores the battle between mind and body, and the tension between art and sex

The life of an Indian porn star who has moved up to C-grade cinema

Critics have panned it. Even those hooked to the books admit there’s nothing much to the story. So what makes the Fifty Shades trilogy such a gasping success?

Mints, deodorants, diamonds, bleach—words we never thought would be preceded by the word ‘vagina’. How the vagina is going glam and why

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…