Writing in a way is nothing but living one’s existential homesickness on a piece of paper. It is a process of consistently returning to various points of departure of own identity.
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.
Recollections of growing up in Bombay before it became Maximum City.
Sometimes, an ache and despondency crawl beneath the skin. However, the author tries to flaunt their best crescent. For, that’s life, with all its sweet, tangy, bitter, not-so-good, and delicious flavours. Isn’t it?
He was a Marxist but he never limited himself to party politics... A short poem by Kiriti Sengupta.
Durgapur was the noiseless town of Hawkins in the popular web series, 'Stranger Things'. Monsoons were not summoned by petrichor, but they used to follow the footprints of drenched pilgrims, writes Jhilam Chattaraj.
The author talks about a feeling of longing, nostalgia and homesickness. An irremediable ache for the bygone, or, an yearning for a place or people, a feeling of something amiss that is unfathomable.
Rain brings the wet smell of earth pervading the house and the dampness of the pages of the book being read. An introspection on the effect of rain on amplifying simple everyday experiences, from reading, listening to...
Rains give life. But not even the most tenacious lives are the same. And they all begin from fragility. Our bodies, delicate as eggs, are stepped over by life,...
As monsoons advance across West Bengal, a poet and artist paints her city, Kolkata, in all its drenched and decadent glory.
The wise old aunt and the idyllic world of a starry-eyed youngster coming to terms with the realities of life
A school girl bedazzled by fancy pencils turns into a thief but an act in kindness causes a change of heart and quality of writing
Delhi-based Gaurav Monga on his grandparents who lived in Kashmir, their successful photo studio and his efforts to track the photographs his grandfather took,...
A Kashmiri Pandit author living in London writes about his experience of watching a recent Bollywood film with his mother ahead of 'Sonth', the Kashmiri...
Anil Kapoor took to Instagram and shared the film's poster, along with pictures from an award ceremony.
Drawing on Indian-Jewish heritage, these poems celebrate the warm memories of growing up with the customs and traditions of the culture and faith.
As Ma laid her healing hand on her back, Anisha felt like she had magically inserted some fallen, missing piece of a little bone back into her column of...
For a year, Reema carried on her unspoken love affair with Rashid: Texting him, meeting him at restaurants, losing herself in his warm embrace at hotels.
A dawn in the life of an upscale southern neighbourhood of Mumbai, and a moment from a language lesson: ‘Thatha teaches me our history/It is full of men/I...
A refugee from East Pakistan, Amala Manna loses her younger brother Kartik, within moments of crossing over to India. At a refugee camp in Gariahata, she meets...
In the fifth and final installment of the Outlook Special series, author Uttaran Das Gupta makes us spend some time with the American soldier we met last week,...
One place in Berlin has preserves objects provoking memories of the erstwhile GDR is the interactive DDR Museum in the centre of the city.
Scattered souvenirs from memory’s cache spread across Panjim, Sao Tome and Fontainhas, of growing up under Portuguese colonial shadow
The events entrenched in memory are all imbued with a tinge of grief. A medley of loss and tears in an insurgency-wrecked Valley.
Vying for a share of the emerging readership, competition among publishing houses led to a variety of magazines on offer, writes Sudhirendar Sharma in her...
