Mr and Mrs Inn

After what seemed an hour, the rain fury finally gave way to just about a drizzle. Not letting the puddles coming in way, I rushed towards the ...

Why not a full-fledged one!

With my father it was different, as blood bonding had taken care of that  connectivity with all those murmurs and mutters he’d come ...

Try Love

“In this time of lockdown and instability, it would be ridiculous for me to deny my own blanket of privilege and personal self-absorption...

Fighting Time & Tide

A Better Man is the fifteenth book in the Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny, readable as much for the setting of the novels, as for the cri...

When the necktie was described in Hindi as Kant-Lungoth

“They were there

You thought- always in your care

But they grew...

Of human bondage: National award-winning photo-journalist’s S.L. Shanth Kumar’s believe-it-or-not real-life story

He snagged this year’s National Award for the Best Professional Photographer on the theme of Women-led Development. Right now, he’s...

We were the Cathedral School boys, the Cats

What it meant to be a ‘Cat’ during the swinging 1960s at the premier school of Mumbai, India? Take that, Campionites!

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The legend of Raj Kapoor in times of hyper PR

“Awara is a classic. The times in which it was made were very different. Gone With the Wind was the flavor of the seaso...

A Muslim in Bollywood

The mainstream Hindi film industry’s template for the community reflects ideological and political shifts in contemporary India.

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