culture

U-bends: Gangotri

Ganga, borne aloft, wound her way towards her white marble temple where a million iridescent triangles danced wildly.

Village Vignettes: Jaani’s Pension

Against the rural landscape, where time takes on another pace, numbers like age have a way of being forgotten.

Courtesy: Conversations

Wait for the right person, the right backdrop, the right season, the right beverage, the right theme, the right everything.

Wife Sharing and Other Stories

Our friendly religious epic, the Mahabharata, is replete with cases of charitable Brahmins impregnating obedient queens in order to oblige heirless kingdoms.

Et tu, Brute?

Does Marcus Brutus really deserve to carry the burden of this stigma?

A Life in Transit

We have all experienced, condemned, and practised road rage. Now meet its dysfunctional spouse, traffic lag.

Don’t Cross Your Lakshman Rekha

The ambiguous Lakshman rekha from the Ramayana symbolises the many boundaries imposed upon female sexuality while growing up.

U-bends: Ujeli

Ten minutes later we were out cold, long before we realised that the rushing lullaby outside our windows was the river flowing just feet away.

The Emerging Comic

Being a stand-up comedian is no laughing matter. Unless, of course, you’re as exceptionally gifted with a microphone in your hand as Neville Shah.

Technologic

How alert are we? How agile are our senses? Is our reflex going to be outsourced? Are you going to tell me it can be?

Village Vignettes: Jogilal Meena’s Mittens

An attempt to piece together the story of water availability in rural Rajasthan and what farmers are doing to adapt to their changing environment.