Sari Stories Chapter Seven: Millennials Musing
How the drape holds meaning and memory for the desi mind, body, and soul. A series of interview-vignettes, showcasing uber serious sari love, brought out via passion, history, politics, through[…]
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Q&A: Louisiana Catch Author Sweta Vikram Raises Awareness Of Marital Rape
My name is Dr. Shruti Kapoor and I am the founder of Sayfty, a global organization focused on educating and empowering young women and girls against gender-based violence. As a[…]
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Review: Cycling Across Small-town India In Nautanki Diaries
Nautanki Diaries By Dominic Franks Rupa Publications (Feb. 2018) 272 Pages *** When 30-year-old Dominic Franks decided to do a cross-country bicycle ride from Bengaluru to Delhi, just in time[…]
Review: Arundhati Roy’s Second Novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
He narrowed his blindgreen eyes and asked in a slygreen whisper… Arundhati Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Knopf), published 20 years after her first beloved debut, The God[…]
“Delhi Haunts” — A Short Story By Pooja Pande
If you Google Delhi stories, you get spooky tales — lists upon lists of haunted spaces in the city that are meant for the “daredevil dildaar sorts,” and definitely not[…]
Short Films Pithas in Barahipur & A Desi Minute Capture Slices of Village & Urban Life
Pithas in Barahipur Earlier this year, I visited Bangladesh. They somehow manage to squeeze half the population of the entire US into a country the size of New York state.[…]
What Nature Taught Me About Making Homes Wherever You Go
I grew up in a desert country, Oman, where I would pretend that the flowers I saw in gardens were primroses I read about in Enid Blyton novels; when leaves[…]
Photo Essay: Flower Memories & The Language Of Fallen Petals
It is spring in Delhi. I see a tree top feathered with pink flowers from my window; the other day, a rain-storm neatly plucked the flowers from the tree and[…]
Hot News Mix: Usha Uthup Covers Adele and Zayn Malik (sort of) goes Bollywood
Drop everything and listen to Usha Uthup’s cover of Skyfall: The legendary Indian singer Usha Uthup was one of the speakers featured at the Ink2013 conference at Kerala last month[…]
Stranger in a Strange Land
It always happens like this. A snow storm. A rain storm. An inept travel agent. I can never seem to get overseas in a timely, relatively painless manner. Lexy and[…]