“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[…]
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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.[…]
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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[…]
Young, Single, and Foreign: A Surprising Tale of Being Stranded in Delhi
No rupees for an auto-rickshaw ride. No debit card to withdraw cash. No conceivable way to walk to my guesthouse. No iPhone with which to Google a solution. No family[…]