

When polity develops accountability and corporatedom grows a heart it becomes Twenty20. This is practical Utopia: organisation, skilled manpower, resource and vision meet people. Being first of its kind, everything…

Jump / AIIMS
Missing passes to the other side: AIIMS, Delhi
“On the bright side, the ride to the mortuary will be considerably shorter,” she said as she stood with one…

Aligned in glistening beads of sweat along an open oven the men pause briefly to look up at people like me – those from a halcyon world. They are on…

‘It was my first outing with Airbnb.’ Any write-up that begins on a note like this you know where it is headed – yes, spiralling down.
Texts don't lie - 1
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Photographs taken to bring tourists. And photographs taken by tourists themselves. Some minor details are always missing between these two. In my case it was a long line of big-boned…

Much has been written about muses and understandably so – they are salacious tales and scandalous to boot. The recorder always faithfully documents the gratitude the artistic and literary worlds…

Genetically we are road trippers
As children, our parents kept me and my sisters away from adultery and blaspheme by shifting to English. So we might all be sitting around and…

Alice Delices is a rare place. Besides freshly baked bread, here you find people actually talking to each other, looking at books and photographs, debating the identity of artists on…

Je ne sais quoi
For all their famous hatred, the French sometimes do come to the rescue of English, the language. The word above might sound like an endearment in Mandarin…