India, Aug. 17 -- Gurgaon, the Millennium City of corporate complexes and residential towers, looks so vertical that it seems to have no past. Even its newer name, Gurugram, sounds too modern, rhyming... Read More
India, Aug. 15 -- At 79, Pushpa Singh is playing. One rainy evening, a table at her apartment complex in Ghaziabad is at the centre of a koat pees, or court piece, tournament. A newspaper is spread ac... Read More
India, Aug. 15 -- The Jama Masjid minarets rise into a cloudy August sky, a lone kite hovers near them, and tricolour flags sway in the damp monsoon breeze above an adjacent rooftop. It is a classic 1... Read More
India, Aug. 14 -- The Jama Masjid minarets rise into a cloudy August sky, a lone kite hovers near them, and tricolour flags sway in the damp monsoon breeze above an adjacent rooftop. It is a classic 1... Read More
India, Aug. 14 -- At 79, Pushpa Singh is playing. One rainy evening, a table at her apartment complex in Ghaziabad is at the centre of a koat pees, or court piece, tournament. A newspaper is spread ac... Read More
India, Aug. 14 -- At 79, Pushpa Singh is playing. One rainy evening, a table at her apartment complex in Ghaziabad is at the centre of a koat pees, or court piece, tournament. A newspaper is spread ac... Read More
India, Aug. 14 -- A heap of small spheres is piled atop a metal tray, each coated with sesame seeds. The white seeds cover the caramel-coloured surfaces so densely that the spheres look almost like ti... Read More
India, Aug. 12 -- Why is the Press Club of India's most prominent portrait that of a foreigner? It hangs above the club's stately wooden staircase, overlooking the mid-landing. In the black-and-white... Read More
India, Aug. 12 -- Why is the Press Club of India's most prominent portrait that of a foreigner? It hangs above the club's stately wooden staircase, overlooking the mid-landing. In the black-and-white ... Read More
India, Aug. 11 -- Many decades ago, in the hill town of Nainital, a second-hand book dealer called Dana Mian walked the hills with a coolie carrying a steel trunk filled with books on his head. Decade... Read More