Features

Winding Up the Clock

Where does one start when one starts to ponder such fundamental questions as the origins of life and the nature of time itself?

Village Vignettes: Romancing Rural Rajasthan

In Rajasthan, pride does not take on the ugly avatar of arrogance. It helps the people ground themselves in a coherent identity in the face of a fast globalising landscape.

Deliciously Despicable Dexter

The slow blossoming of a ‘monster’ into a human being has been wonderful to watch.

Everyone’s a Fucking Editor

The Transmetropolitan series of graphic novels is satiric, dark, and wonderfully profane.

Androgyny and Acceptance

Founded by Sukriti Grover and Sapna Bhavnani, SoFake is an avant-garde fashion label that aims to bridge the gap between the two sexes effortlessly.

Blood and Lust

If you can keep up with all the gore and naked, white flesh that comes with most H.B.O. shows, you will enjoy True Blood.

Village Vignettes: Harvest Season

Being a handicap in a farming family is a deadly curse—the ignominy of being an extra mouth to feed without the solace of being a helping hand.

U-bends: Ujeli, Again

Uttarkashi isn’t likely to make the top ten lists of many tourists. It doesn’t offer much in the way of museums or ancient ruins or souvenirs.

Songbird

In the dead of a summer afternoon, hiking through a forest in the Deccan is an unnatural experience.

Winter Is Coming

To put it simply, Game of Thrones is no simple, black-and-white tale of good versus evil.

A Hippie in a Strait Jacket

Airports and airplanes are the best places to try on different faces to masquerade your identity and experiment with your personality.

We’ve Got a Problem

The excitement of having solved a mystery can be said to only marginally exceed the frustration at encountering new questions.