Migrant moment

At the end of a long exchange where they debated the origins of the senses, philosopher Yajnavalakya asked King Janak, “If a person such as yourself, equipped with we...

Pedro Almodovar Has Made 20 Films And Is Still Making Great Ones

Is there anyone like Pedro Almodóvar? For those who know his work—and for a sometimes-experimental queer Spanish director, that’s more people than you&rs...

Hear Leonard Cohen's Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnik of the New Yorker

We’ve heard very few details about Leonard Cohen’s death this week, and that is by design. The Cohen family requested privacy for his funeral and received it. W...

The Pride Of Bhalaswa: The Story Of One Girl’s Rise From Destitution To Inspiration

Pooja started working the day she completed her higher secondary education. “I had no option but to earn. The entire family of seven was dependent on my mother. She w...

Street Kids Wield The Brush To Spread Message Against Drug Abuse, Child Labour

It is not every day that a nine-year-old speaks about how humiliating it is to see her drug-addict mother suffer the consequences of her habit.
“My parents are b...

Retroscope - A legacy of taste

Young couples who elope to marry, remember Romeo Juliet (the poor kids died)​ Raj Kapoor’s Bobby or the young lovers from a recent Marathi blockbuster Sairat that h...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...