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.
The wise old aunt and the idyllic world of a starry-eyed youngster coming to terms with the realities of life
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.
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...
It was the British who brought thousands of coolies to Shimla when they turned the place into the summer capital of India.
Food, safe options for family planning and the right to quality education are some of the development goals of every nation. Experts closely involved in these...
Tucked away from the outside world and heavily guarded, the Ram Janmabhoomi site has its own little stories; its own little anecdotes.
From Lahore to Delhi, Dinesh Khanna follows in his father’s footsteps to capture extraordinary images.
Scattered souvenirs from memory’s cache spread across Panjim, Sao Tome and Fontainhas, of growing up under Portuguese colonial shadow
Watching films in theatres in 1980s Kashmir left an impact on the audience few could anticipate.
The events entrenched in memory are all imbued with a tinge of grief. A medley of loss and tears in an insurgency-wrecked Valley.
Not only do they have indubitably unique sound, old vinyl records effortlessly summon up the past in a whirl of tactility and art.
No festival is complete without its own set of myths. Traditions invented for the relatively new Durga Puja invoke a community society chooses to forget.
From Partition to genocides in Rwanda and elsewhere, museums are important to understanding our fractured past.
Exalted achievements of yore are often cited by to rehash the story of past political icons.
The politics of nostalgia involves mobilising the masses around the yearning for a glorious past brought alive in imaginations of the future.