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Isabel Allende: ‘It is all about love and loss’
By Isabel Allende. Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.’
Oct 17, 20254 min read


Inside the Valley of Fire
By Ramsharan Joshi in Las Vegas. This is romance at first sight.
Oct 17, 20253 min read


It Takes a Murder…
Anuradha Kumar. A murder is only part of everything else that happens in a small town over certain years. It’s never properly resolved. A murder was a dramatic way for me to ask questions. And there are still so many questions.
Oct 12, 202510 min read


To Err Is AI: Bubble Burst?
By Ajith Pillai. Is the AI bubble bound to burst? A recent case tells a story.
Oct 12, 20254 min read


Las Vegas: Deep pockets and the gambling instinct
By Ramsharan Joshi. Travel story: Flashy lights. Flashy wealth. The show goes on. The hunt for new victims, is in full swing.
Oct 10, 20252 min read


We do not have to leave behind the things that make us who we are…
By Beena Vijayalakshmy. You do not have to name English books to sound well-read. Embrace what moves you. Speak what matters to you. You do not need to hide yourself.
Oct 10, 20254 min read


All is not well
By Rakesh Agrawal. Trump's tariffs are going to hit India real hard.
Oct 6, 20255 min read


Operation Golden Cow
By Ajith Pillai. Does this suggest that people, citizens of a nation, brainwashed over the decades to accept totalitarian authority silently, have lost their will to protest?
Oct 5, 20259 min read


The Joke
By Satya Sagar. My cartoons. Are they perfect? Certainly not.
Oct 4, 20252 min read


Women UNITE on Bhagat Singh anniversary
By Roma. The objective was to celebrate the revolutionary ideas of Bhagat Singh among women so that they can unite and fight against injustice and social inequality, and for their dignity and fundamental rights.
Oct 4, 20253 min read


From Barcelona to Gaza...
Photo feature/Exclusive: Now that the Israeli murder machine has surrounded some of the ships sailing with essential humanitarian aid, baby formula and medicine, we bring to you the first pictures of hope and courage as the bravehearts started the long journey on international waters from the port of Barcelona.
Oct 2, 20253 min read


Roots...
By Ita Mehrotra. 'Uprooted' invites us to bear witness to the changing relationship that the Van Gujjars and the Taungyas have with the forests around them—as they live, laugh and struggle in the face of exclusionary conservation, state antagonism and encroachment under the guise of ‘development’.
Sep 28, 20252 min read


Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
By Anuradha Kumar. In this withdrawing from intimacy, is there also a related fear of loss of masculinity, a loss of control? And what about the women who wish to wander? Will history and the future be kind to them?
Sep 23, 202510 min read


‘Blinded, shadowless and true...’
By Meher Pestonji. Adil’s existential dilemma took a new twist. You don’t need to declass to have empathy. Yet, significant change can only happen through collective action.
His search for authenticity continues.
Sep 22, 20254 min read


One story at a time...
By Monita Soni. My journey with Devdutt’s work began in 1997 with “Shiva,” a book that stirred conversations at home and laid the groundwork for a personal mythology that continued to grow with “Sita,” “Jaya,” “The Pregnant King,” “Business Sutra,” and “Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You.” As a fellow Mumbaikar and someone with a rational yet culturally curious upbringing, I often wondered what it would be like to meet the doctor-turned-storyteller in person.
Sep 22, 20255 min read


BEING
By Arjun Janah. This poem is about spiritually surviving extreme adversity, including losses of family, limbs, health, and even the imminent loss of one's own life, as so many have to do, with faith in all that is good, recognizing all that is evil, and understanding that both are in all beings. One way to do this is by reducing oneself to the essence of being, accepting what the moment brings.
Sep 19, 20253 min read


People writing songs that voices never share…
By Nargis Natarajan. ‘The Sound Of Silence’ is a powerful metaphor for loneliness and spiritual emptiness in a changing world. It is a gloomy painting displaying a desperate longing for connection, for recognition.
Sep 13, 20254 min read


Slain Charles Kirk had no love lost for India
In September 2024, Kirk sparked significant controversy when he posted on social media platform X that “America does not need more visas for people from India”.
Sep 12, 20252 min read


The Thrill of Slow Uncanny Horror...
By Ashish Singh. To understand Alfred Hitchcock’s genius, one must look beyond suspense as a genre and recognize it as a tool he used to explore possession, control, and desire. Safety, he suggested, was never guaranteed.
Sep 11, 20253 min read


A dot. A dash. And a seed.
By Sarita Chouhan. Like a weaver weaving warp and weft. It's repetitive. Meditative. Mystic.
Sep 8, 20253 min read
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