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I've been racking my brains for the English equivalent of 'sannaata'. More precisely, to try and translate the idea of '...

One of my favourite travel stories is from a reporting assignment in rural Rajasthan. For trips into rural areas, I'd usually have to ...

A lot of floodwater had entered the apartment while it was empty last month. Lots of damage to clothes and papers. I opened an old...

तोड़ दो पिंजरा, फोड़ दो भांडा! यही न कह कर थे बहलाए? रहना भीतर, यही भला है? समझो अब असल अभिप्राय। बात ये है, उनसे न होगा!...

I was brought up short the other day at the entrance to the housing complex where I live. There was a fat little cake of slowly dessicatin...

There are days, running into weeks, when the city dresses up. In a general way, of course, you could say that big cities are always dresse...

I have put together a new digital anthology: a set of 11 essays about famous Indian ladies (who also happen to be married to famous Indian ...

A rape story Annie Zaidi It's not science fiction and it's not the nation's growth story. It's the rape story ...

There they were, coming apart right in front on me. A man wearing a moustache, walking fast, turning around to spit out angry words. A har...

If you can measure yourself with the eye scales of the woman who survived your enemy If you can hold the woman you had leane...

People had forgotten, he muses, that it is also possible to read through one’s ears. After all, that is how most of us begin to receive sto...

A narrow lane requires a great deal of adjustment. It can be something minor, such as needing to twist your torso as someone approaches fr...

I recently led a discussion on democracy at the immensely successful Community Library Project, at the Deepalaya/Shiekh Sarai library in De...