The intimacies and power dynamics navigated through a novel can be decoded by using the same skills we exercise when we gossip.

Vakhtang Jaoshvili, the Ambassador of Georgia to India since March 2024, writes about Rustaveli, Georgian cuisine, wine, polyphonic music and why he wants more Indians to discover his country.

I had heard Lecce was described as the ‘Florence of the South' before finally visiting this hidden gem in Southern Puglia, so ...