The struggle of a woman against the victimisation involved in being called a witch
India’s golden sprinter Hima Das reminisces about her growing up in Dhing, a small nondescript village in Assam, and says as a sportsperson she never feels she is seen differently because of her northeastern identity
A young police officer in Manipur who took voluntary retirement in protest, discusses her journey fighting the war on drugs in the northeastern state.
Film actor Sushant Singh recounts his day-long march with Rahul Gandhi in Nanded and how he was impressed by the vision and scale of the yatra in a climate of hate and bigotry
A young girl finds that her grandfather, even after his death, continues to teach her
A connoisseur of adventure relates her experiences of touring Iceland
In the space between what we say and what we leave out rests the intentions and deceptions of a literary text
A civil servant and author provides glimpse of his warm memories from his days in Cambridge to his travels through Maharashtra
At times I feel sad and uprooted. But more often than not, I feel liberated, knowing well that I am not tied to any one place like my mother is.
Vishavjeet Chaudhary, a barrister-at-law (Inner Temple), master of laws (Cambridge), writes about how he fell off a mare and then fell in love with horses
'I often faced two nagging questions. Why have I written a Hindi writer’s life in English and why about his love life? Why not, is how I often counter. Why...
One woman and how she raises awareness about TB while working as a Jeevika Didi with a Bihar government-backed women’s self-help group and organises camps in...
Now, all it takes to become a ‘friend’ is the click of a mouse. After this act, as if by magic, you have unlimited access to each other’s lives.
Mumbai-based artist Manish Nai whose works have been exhibited worldwide says, 'I don't think of any message that art might convey. Any message the onlooker...
If Leiden is a city with a rich cultural heritage, then, having been born and educated in the city—Rembrandt is undoubtedly its most famous bequest to the...
Three of my grandparents were Goans and Catholic by religious orientation. That is often the long-winded explanation I have to offer in order to justify my...
How does it feel to be the last speaker of a language? Or to witness a situation where the person talking to you is the very last speaker of her mother tongue?
A Delhite recalls stories of djinns, haunted havelis, ghosts and mouthwatering street food that made up his childhood in the capital city.
