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  • Mahinn Ali Khan

    Letters of Love

    In conversation with Mahinn Ali Khan: writer, archivist, and innovator.
  • The City Speaks #6

    The City Speaks #6

  • Photograph by Jaideep Unudurti.

    Northern Lights

    “Welcome to Sweden, you lunatic,” says Karl. I’ve just landed in Stockholm, where the temperature is a bracing -19 degrees Celsius.
  • The City Speaks #5

    The City Speaks #5

  • Sacred Cows, Indispensable Women

    Sacred Cows, Indispensable Women

    Even in a country as inherently classist as India, a lower class man has far more power than an upper class woman.
  • Cigars in Cuba

    Rolling Cigars in Havana

    A cigar festival is held in Havana every year and cigar tasting tours, as well as tours to nearby tobacco plantations, are extremely popular.
  • The City Speaks #4

    The City Speaks #4

  • The City Speaks #3

    The City Speaks #3

    (This excerpt partially based on The Alchemy of the Mosque by Thomas Rochford.)
  • Nandita Das's Between the Lines

    Play a Little Harder to Get, Playwrights

    While Between the Lines tackles the gender divide in the context of a married, well-to-do couple, Class of ’84 flirts briefly with homophobia.
  • The Moral Policeman's Guide to Spotting Immorality

    The Painfully Noble Origins of Moral Policing

    Apart from what it dresses in, one needs to constantly monitor where the body goes, who it is seen with, and when it can appear in public places.
  • The City Speaks #2

    The City Speaks #2

  • The Bookstores of London

    The Bookstores of London

    Once the capital of the world, the city of London is riven with a thick sediment of words.
The City Speaks #6

The City Speaks #6

By Jai Undurti and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj
The City Speaks #6
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