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Walk

The world makes its own music. And when we try to be in harmony with others, we forget the tune we started out humming.

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.

Cinephilia: Guide

A film that was daring enough to traverse conventional boundaries and present to its viewers a slice of life of a maladjusted lover.

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.

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.

Cinephilia: Rear Window

On why Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated Rear Window is not just a thriller.

A Day of Shakespeare in the Park

Helena and Bertram proclaimed their love for one another under a sky filled with fireflies, over a lake filled with dreams.

Alive for a Day

Neil Gaiman’s Death: The High Cost of Living makes you realise how Death is kind, compassionate, loyal, and brave.

And then There Was One

It’s always easy to start off a tale of apocalypse, but sustaining the pace, the twists, and the appeal of the tale is not easy.

From Highway to Hell

A book with a plot that cleverly weaves in emotions as the narration digresses from the usual fare of bloodthirsty violence.

I Get by with a Little Help…

How do you make friends when you’re living alone in a strange, big city?