Today, learning, shopping and social networking can all be done online. This is a revolution not only of technology, but also one of sensibility, writes Peter Aspden

One of the most powerful holy places in India, Tarapith in West Bengal is home to a Tantric divinity whose worship promises protection and power. William Dalrymple witnesses a dark and bloody ceremony in her honour

Sculptor Marc Quinn says the scale of his seven-tonne effigy of a naked infant, currently being installed, is capable of transforming its substantive meaning, writes Peter Aspden

Critics at the Venice film festival, recognising a fable about art's power to enchant, catapult Hayao Miyazaki's 'Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea' to the top of the chart, writes Nigel Andrews

Spectacular and authentic Sichuan and Thai food can be found a train ride away in Manhattan's outer boroughs