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    Sari Stories Chapter Seven: Millennials Musing

    • February 23, 2019
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    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[…]

    Life · Literature

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    Q&A: Louisiana Catch Author Sweta Vikram Raises Awareness Of Marital Rape

    • April 9, 2018
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    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

    • March 27, 2018
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    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[…]

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    Review: Arundhati Roy’s Second Novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

    • August 29, 2017
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    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[…]

    Literature · Pop Culture

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    “Delhi Haunts” — A Short Story By Pooja Pande

    • February 17, 2017
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    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[…]

    Food · Movies

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    Short Films Pithas in Barahipur & A Desi Minute Capture Slices of Village & Urban Life

    • October 27, 2016
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    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.[…]

    Life

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    What Nature Taught Me About Making Homes Wherever You Go

    • May 28, 2016
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    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[…]

    Literature · Photos

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    Photo Essay: Flower Memories & The Language Of Fallen Petals

    • April 22, 2015
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    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[…]

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    Hot News Mix: Usha Uthup Covers Adele and Zayn Malik (sort of) goes Bollywood

    • November 25, 2013
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    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[…]

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    Stranger in a Strange Land

    • May 31, 2013
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    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[…]

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