Features

When John Met Sherlock

What is really interesting is how much further Sherlock goes than the original stories in developing the characters of the two protagonists.

The Show Must Go On

It was all a show and these people were here because this political rally provided better, more tangible entertainment than the T.V. at home.

Redemption and Beyond

Bryan Talbot’s The Tale of One Bad Rat should be forced on to everyone with half a working mind and half a decent heart.

Photographing Death

The severed head of a goat lying a few metres away did nothing to deter me from peering at it, curious.

Colour Me Blue

A book that tells a story of loss may make you appreciate life a little more. Does grief not appear more universal than happiness?

Village Vignettes: Happiness

The secret to happiness, so intangible, and yet so familiar, remains too tantalisingly nebulous to encapsulate in words.

U-bends: Haridwar

It was a row of circling flames along the riverbank at dusk, illuminating clouds of incense and chanting pilgrims. For a moment, the postcards came to life.

The Clouds of Uncertainty

Is our reality merely a game of chance? Is Schrödinger’s cat really alive and dead at the same time?

The Day I Met the Blues

The two-day-long Mahindra Blues Festival at the iconic Mehboob Studio in Bombay was truly an experience.

Young Lust

Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend is brilliant because it is darkly humorous, satirical, and poetically unjust.

Alice in Wonderland

Against the backdrop of history exists a town dripping with experimentation and modernity. Except this is not a town. This is Hauz Khas Village.

Village Vignettes: Opium for Dinner

For most of us, opium usually paints a picture of the messy tangle of the narcotics trade, undercover dealings, and sometimes, a withered Chinese lady smoking a pipe.