India, May 29 -- The doorway's ledge is arrayed out into carved ripples of multifarious designs. An arch adorns the top. The wall is of old-fashioned lakhori bricks, arranged in a slanting pattern, as... Read More
India, May 28 -- It is post-twilight, and most glass panels of the multi-storey have their lights out. This is Connaught Place's Jeevan Bharti office complex as seen from N Block. A Charles Correa cr... Read More
India, May 27 -- The sun's glare was repeatedly hitting the auto rickshaw's windshield. It was not even 10am, but the road, the roadside, and the trees on the roadside were flooded with hot white ligh... Read More
India, May 27 -- The sun's glare was repeatedly hitting the auto rickshaw's windshield. It was not even 10am, but the road, the roadside, and the trees on the roadside were flooded with hot white ligh... Read More
India, May 24 -- Delhi's backpackers' district of Paharganj had many bookstores, each crammed with hundreds of used books. Many of those well-thumbed paperbacks would bear origins of exotic lands, oft... Read More
India, May 23 -- The love song from our grandfathers' time is streaming out from a window atop the grocery of "Shadab ki dukan." Up there is Bhai Majid's "embroidery ka karkhana." The hard-at-work tai... Read More
India, May 23 -- Amid the ongoing heatwave-like conditions, thousands of our fellow citizens lack the choice of sheltering themselves from the dangerous afternoon sun. They are obliged to carry on wit... Read More
India, May 23 -- The complexity of things-the things within things-just seems to be endless, nothing is easy, nothing is simple. So said Alice Munro, the Nobel prize winning author who died last week.... Read More
India, May 23 -- Artist-types always crave to turn life's ordinary experiences into something sublime. There are also those who stoically labour through their profession, without realising that they t... Read More
India, May 21 -- Happy Birthday, Ruskin Bond. The much-loved author turned 90 on Sunday. Although the hill station of Landour in Mussoorie has been Ruskin Bond's home since 1964, he would routinely t... Read More