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Different Strokes,Same Blood!
Navigating the complicated father-son dynamic. Few relationships are as fraught as father and son — and Indian history offers some of its starkest case studies: duty curdling into rivalry, amb…
We Forget to Celebrate: Bloomsday, Ulysses, and the Reading India Skipped!
Every June 16th, Dublin turns into a 1904 theme park. More than a hundred events across the city mark the day on which Ulysses is set, and people dress in Edwardian fashion, with the straw boater hat…
The Ones Who Never Fully Come Back!
On Raakh, Method Acting, and The Scars That Don't Show. Raakh is streaming on Prime Video right now. It is based on the 1978 Ranga-Billa case — the kidnapping and murder of siblings Geeta Chopr…
WHERE THE EARTH IS THE GODDESS!
The Smiling Mother of Hassan India’s Most Extraordinary Temple Opens Its Doors Just Once a Year. There is a place in Karnataka where a goddess chooses to live not in carved stone, not in gilde…
An Incomplete Field Guide to the Bengali Gentleman: The Bhadralok in His Native Habitat!
(With Footnotes, Digressions, and Appropriate Melancholy) The Bhadralok (homo bengalicus respectable) is a creature of remarkable consistency. Across one hundred and fifty years of seismic historica…
Savitri: The Epic That Wrote Its Author!
(On Sri Aurobindo’s Supreme Work — Its Brilliance, Its Power, and Why It Matters) A couple of years ago, I found myself in Auroville -- that strange, luminous township in Tamil Nadu th…